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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…