Results tagged “Movable Type”
Social Media Tips from a True Pro
Lauren Kozak, Social Media Director for Britney Spears, recently stopped by our San Francisco offices and shared her views about how corporations can use social media to grow their brands and engage with customers in meaningful ways. We enjoyed her...
Thinking Ahead with Six Apart
It's been about a year since we announced the launch of Six Apart Services and Six Apart Media and our new role as a full-service blogging company. These days, Six Apart provides just about everything bloggers, publishers and companies need to...
Six Apart Announces Support for Parallel’s APS Format, Providing Wider Availability of Movable Type through Global Hosting Providers
Signs First Movable Type APS Package Agreement with DatagramSan Francisco, CA - February 4, 2009 - Six Apart, the world's leading blogging software and services company, today announced the availability of Movable Type through hosting providers who support the Parallels’...
The Laws of Motion
About a week ago, we launched a beta test of a new application for Movable Type called Motion. It's a powerful new social application that combines the insights we've learned from the smartest social sites across the web with unique...
We Couldn't Call It "MTV"...
Just over a month ago, we released Virtual Movable Type, which gives you all the power of Movable Type Pro on any machine, with no installation in just a few clicks. It's a completely virtualized version of Movable Type that...
Movable Type Pro: "It raises the bar"
As anyone who saw last week's opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics knows, a community of motivated energetic people can create a pretty powerful, even beautiful, demonstration of the power of movable type. Since the milestone release of Movable Type...
Facebook Connects with Movable Type
Blogging is evolving, to encompass the world of social networking and connect to the rest of the web, merging publishing with community. Movable Type users know this better than anyone, since they get first and best access to the coolest...
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...
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...
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...
MT in 2008: Open, Powerful and Easy
I started blogging on Movable Type in 2002 -- and began a long love affair with the product that has helped transform the world of blogging, and the world blogging touches. I remember that sense of both freedom and control...
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 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...
An Interview: Apperceptive, Boing Boing and MT4
As we’ve mentioned on the Movable Type news blog, today Boing Boing, the immensely popular “Directory of Wonderful Things”, relaunched on the Movable Type 4.0 platform. There were a lot of people and organizations involved in the effort, but one...
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/."
The Movable Type Hackathon and Summit
A few weeks ago, many of us on the Movable Type team got to meet with many of our most prominent members of the ProNet community, as well as a number of Movable Type users. The occasion was a...
Talk to the Team
Interested in where Movable Type is going? Curious about the latest from our Professional Network community? Well, call us old-fashioned, but we think sometimes nothing quite takes the place of the sound of the human voice. So tomorrow is another...
Want to help with Movable Type usabilty testing?
This coming Thursday, March 8 between 9am and 6pm in our San Francisco offices we will be conducting usability studies to help shape the future direction of the Movable Type product. If you are interested in participating in this usability...
