Former Blogger Googler Shellen joins LiveJournal from News.com reports Jason Shellen, the former Google Reader product manager, is joining LiveJournal as the vice president of product development.

Shellen announced his departure from Google in July of this year. He said he left because he has the “entrepreneurial/start-up bug,” where he needs to be with a smaller start up company. Shellen will be working in LiveJournal’s new San Francisco location in early 2008.

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