Posts Tagged ‘ Six Apart ’

Movable Type Motion Turns Your Site Into A Social Network

Dec 16th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Six Apart, the creators of Movable Type, have introduced an add-on that turns Movable Type into a social networking platform. 
Motion is a Movable Type application you install and run on your web server. Motion will be freely available in early 2009 for any licensed user of Movable Type Pro. 
According to Six Apart, “We looked at the most [...]



TypePad Offers Bailout For Journalists

Nov 19th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: General

High-level talks are happening this week in Washington, D.C. this week between Big Business and government officials, focused on an emergency government bailout of the foundering financial and automotive industries. The thinking is that saving Wall Street and Detroit from further disaster will have some kind of ripple (trickle-down?) effect and buoy prospects for smaller [...]



Movable Type Wants To Help You Build The Next Digg

Aug 13th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcasting Software

Six Apart today announced an update to Movable Type and the launch of Movable Type Pro, a new version that’s designed to let you build your own social networking sites. 
Or as Six Apart puts it, “think Digg in a box”.
What’s New in Movable Type 4.2

Movable Type Pro lets you turn any site into a full [...]



Magnify Offers WordPress, Movable Type Publishers New Video & Image Tools

May 14th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV, Microblogging, Podcasting Software, Video, Vlogs

Magnify has introduced a new service that promises to make it easy for Movable Type and Wordpress publishers to incorporate media from a variety of sites.
Magnify Publisher is a native blog application that lets you search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags, and embed the content directly into a post, without [...]



Top Blogging Site Sold To The Russions

Dec 3rd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, today announced that SUP, a Russian media conglomerate, has acquired LiveJournal (LJ), a top blogging/social networking site. SUP has launched an American company, LiveJournal, Inc., to manage and operate LiveJournal globally.
This agreement builds on the established and successful relationship between Six Apart and SUP, which entered into a licensing [...]



Movable Type Features Built-In Podcast Support

Aug 15th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

Six Apart’s Anil Dash has announced the release of Movable Type 4.0 (MT), the latest version of the pioneering blogging platform. While the publishing platform has lost a lot of ground to WordPress in the last few years, MT is fighting back by open-sourcing much of its code, offering a free version, and bringing its [...]



Movable Type Blogging Platform Gets Update

Jun 5th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

Six Apart has announced Movable Type 4, now in beta. The new version of the popular blogging platform addresses some of the issues that have led to many MT users switching to the open-source Wordpress platform.
The company is also releasing an open-source version of Movable Type to help compete with WordPress. WordPress use has exploded [...]