Results tagged “typepad”
What Facebook's Like means for publishers
Last week Facebook announced a new version of the “Like” button that gives marketers and publishers the ability to embed a content-sharing button on their websites. Users can now signal the content they like on the Internet via their Facebook...
Six Apart Likes Facebook's Open Graph
Facebook’s announcement on the Open Graph at the F8 conference caused quite a stir yesterday. Mark Zuckerberg described this as a technology that pulls together all the different social networks to create a web "that is smarter, more social,...
Announcing the TypePad Platform and TypePad Motion
It was almost 8 years ago today that Ben and Mena Trott released Movable Type and helped spark the blogging explosion that followed. Before that time, personal web publishing was largely difficult and expensive, but with MT and the...
Question of the Day Comes to TypePad
One of the things we love most about blogging is the community it builds. One blog post can create a dialogue across the web that features divergent opinions, thoughtful comments and a real sense of conversation.The Question of the Day...
Enter the “Green by Design” Contest!
In April, we told you about our partnership with One Million Acts of Green brought to you by Cisco, and our Green Badge program designed to encourage everyone to go green, one act at a time. We promised that when...
A WordPress 2.7 Upgrade Guide (Really!)
Back when WordPress 2.5 came out earlier this year, we wrote a cheeky post called "A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide" which pointed out some of the areas where we think our Movable Type platform offered a good option for...
TypePad Connect, Profiles and Comments for Everyone!
Today, the TypePad team is launching three exciting new features for everyone who blogs or reads blogs: Profiles (a reinvention of TypeKey) New commenting capabilities TypePad Connect, a new beta service that is free for all bloggers and extends these...
TypePad and Journalism
Over the weekend, I posted a simple web page on our TypePad site called the TypePad Journalist Bailout Program. I wrote it up with a lighthearted, snarky tone so a few old friends who recently lost their jobs as professional...
Blog Link and LinkedIn: Investing in Yourself
Though we're proud to help create a lot of the coolest technologies around, we don't just make technology for its own sake. That's especially true with all of the concern we've heard from our community about the tumultuous economy and...
TypePad for iPhone is a hit!
It's only been a few days since the launch of the iPhone App Store, but the verdict is in: Bloggers are loving the new TypePad for iPhone application. We've seen a massive number of TypePad members download the new application...
Bringing Great Blogging Tools to iPhone
Ever since Ben and Mena Trott created Movable Type together so that Mena could blog and build a community, Six Apart has been about helping to get more people blogging. In order to do this we must produce optimized user...
TypePad AntiSpam: What's Good for the Web
At Six Apart, our mission is to help people communicate on the web, and we've always done this by making the best software and services that we can. But part of our larger goal is to help do what's...
Hey Bloggers: Get Out! (With TypePad)
Maybe everything interesting in life happens in front of a keyboard. But we don't think so, and we know that's not true for TypePad members, or for bloggers in general. We think you want to get outside and live your...
Hell no, personal sites aren't dead!
A few days ago, venerable web designer (and standards advocate) Jeffrey Zeldman posted "The vanishing personal site". Jeffrey lamented the fact that a lot of people who, in the past, might have made personal web sites are instead sharing their...
"This is something many didn't even dream of."
As we have been saying for some time, we take design incredibly seriously at Six Apart. In that post, we were talking about empowering bloggers to have complete control over their blog designs. Today we take that next step in...
A Video Conversation With Six Apart
High-profile geek blogger Robert Scoble just posted an hour-long conversation with our CEO Chris Alden, our VP of Products Michael Sippey, and David Recordon, the engineer on our team who's leading efforts around OpenID and the open social graph. Though...
Six Apart Merges With Facebook
Yep, Six Apart merges with Facebook. The truth is, we merge in improvements to our source code from lots of companies and contributors that make fixes and patches to our open source platforms, not just the Facebook team. Oh yeah:...
Get Burned, For Free!
Our friends over at FeedBurner, who sold out to joined the team at Google recently have just announced that pro-level stats and custom domains are now free. Two of their best paid features, Stats PRO and MyBrand, which lets you...
5 out 6 economists recommend Six Apart blogging tools?
Well, in a recent article from Reuters titled "Blogging economists draw cyber-crowds", five of the six economists mentioned indeed use Six Apart's tools - four are on TypePad, the fifth on Movable Type. They've voted with their pocketbooks.
Seriously, it's great to read about customers succeeding with their blogs. Mentioned in the article are:
"(Dani Rodrik), the professor of international political economy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, started his blog in April at http://rodrik.typepad.com/."
Blog Your Way To More Business
Technology for Business Sake, a small business radio show based out of Atlanta, but broadcast worldwide through its podcast, took some time to talk about business blogging this weekend. As Brent Leary and Michael Thomas, the co-hosts, describe the show,...
