six apart

WordPress, Six Apart silences and communities Members Public

The company that was Six Apart is gone. The name and Movable Type are ensconced in Japan [http://blog.saymedia.com/2011/01/movable-type-finds-new-home-at-infocom.html], 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Automattic

More on Movable Type's Future Members Public

Give the hoohah over the future of Movable Type [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/09/where_now_for_movable_type_and_typepad.html] 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,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Where now for Movable Type and Typepad? Members Public

[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/09/saymedia_2.jpg] Here’s a thing to discover just before you go to bed: Six Apart [http://www.sixapart.com], the company that produces the blog software that’s at the heart of much of my day job,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
ad networks

Lessons from the death of Vox Members Public

Six Apart's attempt to create a blog platform that behaved like a social network is done.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Monetising Conversation Members Public

Six Apart have added an interesting feature to their Typepad [http://www.typepad.com/] hosted blogging platform. Typepad Conversations [http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/six-apart-announces-typepad-conversations.html] is reminiscent of Vox [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_%28blogging_platform%29] ‘s QotD –  a daily question which people can answer

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Le Web: The Platform Roundtable Members Public

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 they come up with great things.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Our Real Problem: The Death of the News Package Members Public

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 to re-evaluate what we do from

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
advertising

The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation Members Public

John Gruber mused [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack] : > 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Automattic