Around the Six Apart Universe

We've got a busy week ahead of us at Six Apart, as our various teams begin to ship the fruits of their labors. Besides new pushes for LiveJournal (check!), Movable Type and TypePad (fingers-crossed), there's a lot of projects going on peripherally to the main releases. Since I can't be involved in all aspects of the company, these projects are often new to me as I read about them in our intranet weblog.

I'd like to call this list "Things I didn't work on or make, but appreciate all the same."

LJ Spotlight
There's a fascinating world on LiveJournal that most people outside of the communities are completely unaware of. Here's a place to spotlight some of these groups and their stories.

LJ's Jam-packed release and commemoration of LJ's 8 millionth user.
The LJ team has been working incredibly hard on this release and it seems to have come off pretty nicely. Special shout out goes to Whitaker who will soon be leaving to finish his last semester in college before returning to Six Apart.

Movable Type 3.2 improved documentation (with comments)
Tim Appnel, MT developer and superstar rewrote the Movable Type documentation. The team is still in the process of cleaning of the manual's layout and template, but you're free to take a look and see all the improvements.

Our new sign!
With a new shiny sign, we feel like we're finally an established business. There's a lot of bling on our current door and we're probably toning it down in the upcoming weeks. However, it's pretty damn cool to see our logos on the doors. Even cooler is when we overhear people on the street talking about using our products after they see the signs.

Something I did make this week:
The new bulls-eye promo graphic for Pronet on the Movable Type main page. I felt that the Professional Network site and blog are just too hard to find, currently, and since there's a great deal of blogging happening on Pronet, it only made sense to bring it to our visitor's attention.