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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
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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,
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[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,
Blogging
Six Apart's attempt to create a blog platform that behaved like a social network is done.
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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
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.
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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
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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
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://www.twit.tv/) stable, is hosted
Blogging
If all has gone well, this blog is now running on Movable Type 4.25 [http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2009/03/its-time-to-get-in-motion.html], which was released yesterday. The key new feature is [Motion](http://www.movabletype.com/motion/), and here’s a video which explains it:
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 elsewhere. Apps written for this standard
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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 me an e-mail](mailto:adam@onemanandhisblog.