Results tagged “Weblogs”
Delicious! Gourmet Visits the Food Blogosphere
Gourmet’s TV series “Diary of a Foodie” is a record of people documenting their passion for food, so it’s only natural that they’ve chosen to focus on food blogging this week — food blogs are where all the most passionate...
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...
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:...
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.
Michael Sippey: Anything But Obvious
Many people in the Six Apart community know Michael Sippey from his work as our VP of Products -- when you see something like Amazon's new widgets for TypePad, it's Michael's tireless advocacy and leadership that makes those sorts of features happen.
Leslie Harpold: Always Fearless, Never Smug
If you didn’t know her work, you might fear that someone who owned the domain names fearless.net and smug.com might be a bit, well… prickly. But more than 10 years after Leslie Harpold helped start some of the most...
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...
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...
Microsoft Supports OpenID: A Belated Birthday Present
Have you heard about OpenID? The simple idea that your web address is one form of identity, just like your email adddress or even your physical address? Well, back in December, we mentioned how OpenID has been gaining momentum like...
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,...
Science + Blogs = Wired
Wired has just launched Wired Science, a new one-hour primetime TV series on PBS. And as you'd expect, the new series has an exceptional presence online. Not only can you watch the pilot, there's a well-written TypePad-powered Wired Science Blog....
Looking Ahead at Web 2007
If you can get to Mountain View, CA tonight, you should swing by Looking Ahead at Web 2007, an event being held by the Jewish High Tech Community. At 6:30 tonight at Fenwick & West's offices, I'll be joined by...
Time Meant "Us", Not "You"
Time made a big splash (and caused a few rolled eyeballs) when they named “You”, the citizens of Web 2.0, as the Person of the Year for 2006 a few weeks ago. But amidst all the congratulations and second-guessing in...
Step Away From Your Computer
Okay, show of hands — how many of you have had the best moments of your life happen in front of a computer monitor? (Those of you with your hands up — that’s sad. Please stop reading now.) For the...
Human Beans
When I first moved out to California, I was a little bit skeptical about the whole fixation on food and ingredients. Thinking too much about the farm that your food came from seemed like more the usual hippie earth-hugging stuff...
Does Ellen's blog feature a Frank cameo?
Sure, as part of the The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen keeps a Movable Type-powered blog with peeks behind the scenes of her popular daytime show. But when Ellen posted her recent American Express commercial, we couldn’t help but notice...
