Results tagged “Company News”
Designing to Inspire
From our recent launch of the Design Assistant for Movable Type and TypePad to the announcement of tons of new themes for TypePad users, we’ve been extremely focused on design for bloggers this year. Today, we’re thrilled to present the...
Movable Type, TypePad and Vox nominated for Webware 100 Awards
Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox have all been selected as finalists in the 2008 Webware 100 Awards! In case you're not familiar with it, Webware 100 is CNET's yearly awards program where users nominate and then vote for their favorite...
How Six Apart tools, along with OpenSocial, Facebook Beacon, OpenID, and other technologies, help create successful communities
Brent Leary and his business partner and co-host Michael Thomas are recognized experts in the field of Customer Relationship Management, with a vibrant consulting business, a web site, a TypePad blog, and a radio show that focus on technologies for...
Beacons and Little Details
A few weeks ago, Facebook launched their Beacon feature, which lets you update your Facebook network when you’ve performed actions on other sites. Since then, there’s been a lot of discussion and debate over how the feature works, what the...
Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal
Acquisition of LiveJournal, creation of new operating company and investment fund by SUP promise new innovation and expansion for pioneering online community San Francisco, CA – December 3, 2007 - Six Apart, the world's leading independent blogging software and services...
Kids win in the Blogger Challenge
During the month of October, more than a hundred bloggers around the U.S. engaged in a friendly competition to see who could raise the most money from their readers for Donors Choose, the non-profit organization where you can support a...
OpenSocial, Killer Apps and Regular People
At Six Apart, we'll be supporting the new OpenSocial initiative to make an open platform for social applications on the web. But for us, it's not about Google or Facebook. It's about the web itself. As you can guess...
A River of Relationships
We’ve spoken recently about opening up the social graph. At last week’s Web 2.0 Summit, our own David Recordon was joined by Brad Fitzpatrick to talk about some of the first real bits of technology that have been made available...
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...
For Some People Every Day is Blog Action Day
We mentioned Blog Action Day on Friday, and encouraged our customers to participate in the event by writing about one issue for one day: the environment. Well, today is Blog Action Day, and we commemorate it by celebrating the...
Three Together
We’ve been celebrating a number of birthdays recently — TypePad turned four years old on Saturday, October 6th, and Movable Type celebrated its six year anniversary two days after that. When both launched, they were described as “Ben and Mena’s...
Six Apart has a new CEO
We've got a bit of company news today: Christopher J. Alden is the new Chairman and CEO of Six Apart. Mena's updated Mena's Corner with some background information, including a sincere thanks on all of our behalf for the great...
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:...
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/."
Harold Check: Blogging and Inspiration
Harold Check is one of the quiet innovators of blogging, having started publishing his personal site Offhand Remarks ten years ago. In the interim, he's contributed to dozens of blogs, most recently as part of our own team at Six Apart, shepherding some of our best blogs into existence, such as TypePad Featured Blogs and the TypePad Books blog and podcast series.
Thanks, Dave!
Yesterday, Dave Winer celebrated the 10th anniversary of Scripting News, his seminal and enormously influential blog at scripting.com. Dave co-created or popularized of a broad range of blogging technologies — from RSS to podcasting to blogging itself. So this week,...
What's the News?
We've had a bunch of recent press stories about the different projects we're working on at Six Apart, so it makes sense to highlight a few of the ones that are particularly interesting. BusinessWeek takes a look at new networks...
It's GOOD to Share Alike
Are you in Austin for the South By Southwest Interactive Festival? Then we want to see you at Uncle Flirty’s (325 E. Sixth St., on corner of Trinity and Sixth) at 9pm tonight. It’s gonna be a party, and it’s...
It's a look into the future!
Wanna be on the cutting edge bleeding edge with your blog? Take a look at what might be coming in the future? Well, sometimes we have rough sketches we want you to see, that we use to collect feedback and...
Even the New York Times has friends
It seems like the message is getting out: Lots of people blog just to talk to their friends and family, not to broadcast to the whole world. The latest evidence? So, Who Says That a Blog Has to Blare? in...
