Free Post Automattic WordPress, Six Apart silences and communities The company that was Six Apart is gone. The name and Movable Type are ensconced in Japan, Vox is dead and Typepad is part of SAY Media. It seems an appropriate time for a post-mortem, and that’s just what former Typepad and Movable
Free Post blog platforms More on Movable Type's Future Give the hoohah over the future of Movable Type post Six Apart’s assimilation into Say Media last week, I really couldn’t refuse the opportunity to meet Jun Kaneko, the product manager for MT, who was in the UK on holiday until Saturday.
Free Post ad networks Where now for Movable Type and Typepad? Here’s a thing to discover just before you go to bed: Six Apart, the company that produces the blog software that’s at the heart of much of my day job, is about to be sold. In its new incarnation as part of
Free Post blogging Lessons from the death of Vox Last Thursday, I opened Safari, and found a death notice. Vox, a blogging platform I’ve used for four years, was on death row. At the end of this month, it dies. I used to love Vox. Up until mid-2008 I was an enthusiastic
Free Post blog platforms Monetising Conversation Six Apart have added an interesting feature to their Typepad hosted blogging platform. Typepad Conversations is reminiscent of Vox‘s QotD – a daily question which people can answer as fodder for their own blogs. The interesting thing is that some of these questions are
Free Post facebook Le Web: The Platform Roundtable David Jacobs of Six Apart argued that treating developers well is important, because it allows you to get traction for your platform. But Ethan Beard of Facebook says that user experience has to come before developers. And developers will come up with problems before
Free Post advertising Our Real Problem: The Death of the News Package The problem we have to face up to is that just sticking a paywall around what we used to do will not solve our problems on its own (and by decreasing page views, may harm ad revenue and make things worse…. ) We actually have
Free Post Automattic The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation John Gruber mused: I have to wonder when WordPress users will start switching to some other platform. There’s a reason it’s not happening. They can’t. There are no good alternatives for a less technical user who wants to self-host. There’s
Free Post Google Good Listening: This Week in Google I’ve just been reminded by a discussion on our company [Yammer](https://www.yammer.com/home) that I meant to recommend a new podcast called [This Week in Google](http://www.twit.tv/twig). It’s the latest offering from the [TWiT](http:
Free Post blogging Movable Type Upgraded to 4.25 If all has gone well, this blog is now running on Movable Type 4.25, which was released yesterday. The key new feature is [Motion](http://www.movabletype.com/motion/), and here’s a video which explains it:
Free Post facebook Le Web 08: The Social Stack For example, OpenID is a profile web address that you can use to login to any site that supports it. OpenSocial solves the desire to use any app on any site on the web, with the same people relationships and profile data you have
Free Post blog platforms Movable Type updated to 4.23 I’ve just finished upgrading this blog to version [4.23 of Movable Type](http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2008/12/mt-423-released.html), a security update that was release last night.All seems well but, as ever, if you see any problems, please [drop
Free Post hackopalypse Blogging Your Way Out of the Hackopalypse? In a meeting earlier, I made a throw-away remark about the publishing news being so bad between now and next spring that all our journalists will be scared stiff. I was joking. But judging by the news coming in (hat tip to Heidi from
Free Post Automattic Automattic acquires Intense Debate An e-mail was waiting for me when I got home, announcing that [Automattic has acquired Intense Debate](http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/09/23/automattic-acquires-intensedebate/).For those not familiar with it, [Intense Debat](http://www.intensedebate.com/)e is one of those centralised
Free Post blogs Mixing Blogs & Social Networks with Movable Type However, it feels like there’s still a significant amount of work for the team to do to make implementing this stuff easier. I’ve had an initial poke at adding the community stuff to this blog, using the instructions here, and it’s
