This page is for blogging social sites that support social network site features. Examples include LiveJournal, Xanga, and Vox.
1998
- ?: Xanga launched as a book and music review sharing site
1999
2000
- 5 November: Xanga began supporting blogging
- 30 November: Xanga introduced email subscriptions
- 8 December: Xanga started supporting comments and eprops
2001
- 17 January: Xanga introduced web-based reader subscriptions so you could read your friends and display your subscriptions on your blog
- 18 January: Xanga started supporting comment tracking
- 6 March: Xanga introduced blog rings
- 1 May: Xanga offered photo uploading services
- 2 September: LiveJournal introduces invite codes
2003
- 15 July: Xanga discontinued anonymous subscriptions (and thus, subscriptions were all visible on your blog)
- 19 Sept: AOL launches AIM Journals (src)
- 2 December: LiveJournal ends invite codes
2004
- 1 February: Xanga relaunched profiles to support lots of info
- 1 April: LiveJournal changed "friend" and "friend of" to "stalking" and "stalked by" for April Fool's
- 27 July: Xanga started supporting multiple profile pics
2005
- 5 January: Six Apart buys LiveJournal
- 30 August: Xanga gave premium members 1Gig of photo storage
- 9 September: Xanga introduced batch photo upload
- 28 September: Xanga started supporting moblogging
2006
- 6 April: Xanga introduced a photoblogging tool
- 6 April: Xanga started supporting all social network site features
- 6 June: Xanga added links to profiles at the top of each Xanga for navigation purposes
- 9 August: Xanga unveiled video blogging
- 29 September: Xanga launched audio blogging
Unkown
- When was Blogger launched? 2001?