six apart

Good Listening: This Week in Google Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Google

Movable Type Upgraded to 4.25 Members Public

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:

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Le Web 08: The Social Stack Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Movable Type updated to 4.23 Members Public

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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Blogging Your Way Out of the Hackopalypse? Members Public

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 Computer Weekly [http://twitter.com/computerweekly]

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
hackopalypse

Automattic acquires Intense Debate Members Public

[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/09/intensedebate-automattic_blog.png] 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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Automattic

Mixing Blogs & Social Networks with Movable Type Members Public

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 [http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/taking-advantage-of-community-features.html] , and

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogs

Blogs Becoming Social Networks, Says Six Apart (Europe) Members Public

Paid Content’s interview with Olivier Creiche of Six Apart [http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-video-interview-olivier-creiche-vp-six-apart-selling-to-sup-and-the-end/] . Some interesting thoughts on the usage and evolution of Movable Type (and why they flogged Livejournal to the Russians):

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging