Six Apart Update: July 2005

July's been another busy month at Six Apart, and though we're told it's summer vacation season, we've been hard at work.

Although we had some issues with TypePad after the July 4th weekend, we were excited to launch a number of powerful new features, including 25 new themes, more storage and bandwidth, Instant Messaging presence, enhanced community management, and comment management directly from your inbox.

We're glad to see the warm reception for these new features, and we wanted to let you know that you can always go to our status weblog to check on TypePad's performance. And stay tuned in the next few days, as even more requested features are on the way and we'll be working to make sure TypePad performance is up to your expectations.

Meanwhile, the Movable Type team has been working in overdrive. The Movable Type 3.2 Beta shipped to a great reception over on the Beta Blog and we want to send out a heartfelt thank you to all our incredible beta testers for the extremely detailed and attentive bug reports you've been filing. We're happy to see a number of 3.2 enabled plugins are on the way, as well as exciting new plugins that are already available, such as BigPAPI.

TypeKey had some long-awaited improvements as well. The service now remembers your login, making it easier to comment on blogs using TypeKey authentication. You may have also noticed that we also unveiled a spiffy new logo that we think does a better job of showing what TypeKey is all about.

Over at LiveJournal, the team reports that new LiveJournal merchandise is on the way -- exciting news for LiveJournal community members who've been eagerly awaiting the restock of cool schwag. There's also a survey that's just launched as part of the new feedback community, a few new styles and updates to the very popular new tag feature that was launched last month.

We're also really excited to note that the new "Bloggish" style on LiveJournal marks the debut of a set of XHTML and CSS templates that can let you make a single theme that works across any of our platforms. We'll be talking more about this in the future, but we think being able to share designs between Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal will really help a lot of creative blog design reach its widest potential audience.

Finally, as always, we're looking for talented people to join our team. We have just posted a number of new jobs, so check out our job listings and if you (or your friends) are a good fit, we'd love to hear from you.