Six Apart Update: September 2005

Can you believe it's October already? Time has flown by at an incredible pace and we're a little late putting our September monthly update up. But as the saying goes, better late than never.

Project Comet unveiled at DEMOFall Conference

We gave the audience at the DEMOfall conference a sneak preview of the developments of Six Apart’s Project Comet at this year’s DEMOfall. Mena, Ben and Mena’s Mom did a great job on stage and Mena's mother even won a coveted DEMOgod award! You can watch the DEMO yourself and read about Mena’s experience at the conference. Be sure to sign-up for all the news about our exciting new platform.

Webzine Conference

The Webzine conference came to town this month and we really enjoyed participating and getting a chance to spend some face to face time with the Zine crowd. The Six Apart staff was in full force and our Jay Allen and Brad Fitzpatrick participated in sessions.

LiveJournal – it’s cool to blog at school

With school starting again, the LiveJournal team launched an overwhelmingly popular new schools feature -- a new feature that enables LiveJournalers to add a school to their profile and easily create school-oriented communities. Check out the Schools Directory to see if your school is listed.

TypePad - Give a gift and get a tip

The TypePad Team launched the Give the Gift of a Blog promotion -- a great gift to give to those friends and family members whom you've been trying to get to keep a blog.

The TypePad team also unveiled TypePad's Tip Jar feature this month. With the tightly integrated Tip Jar, TypePad members can receive monetary tips from their readers, a great way to subsidize your TypePad account.

Over in Europe

The European team continues to evangelize weblogging throughout Europe and have launched four new TypePad services, including a brand new portal for VNU UK. Additionally, plans are underway for the second Les Blogs conference on December 5th and 6th.

Movable Type

The August release of Movable Type 3.2 generated great enthusiasm here in the states, and interest continues to build. Our Japanese subsidiary launched Movable Type 3.2 in Japan during the last week of September. Our own Dash-san was over in Japan to participate in the launch.

Along with the current release we have greatly improved the Movable Type User Manual.

Hurricane Aftermath

We were proud and amazed to see the role that blogging, and specifically LiveJournal, TypePad and Movable Type have played in the hurricane relief efforts. We have featured a number of these blogs on the TypePad home page and Movable Type news. For those of you who wish to add a Hurricane Relief badge to your weblogs, we created a badge to help you in your donation efforts.

See you in October!