A few months ago Jeremy Zawodny posted his Movable Type template for a RSS feed of all comments regardless of their approval status. I liked the idea as a way to keep e-mail clutter to a minimum. I took the idea and created my own recent comments RSS feed template using no namespaces or CDATA. The feed validates. I created a new index template and set the RSS file to regenerate with every index build. Every time you post your comments feed is rebuilt. For some people that will be not often enough but for me it works well….
Category Archives: Weblog platforms
MSN Spaces and MSN Messenger
MSN Messenger now includes support for blogging to your MSN Spaces My Space page.
News.com announces Trackback and Pingback support
News.com officially announced support for TrackBank and Pingback links. Search engine optimizers are already excited by the prospect of “anyone linking to a CNET News.com story who sends the proper notification will get a link back in return” from the PageRank 8 site. CNET is also referencing TrackBack and PingBack URLs as link relations in the page header. I like the TrackBack button for readers CNET uses for readers to look at other related sources. I need to do some more reading on Pingback, still not sure what differentiates it from TrackBack….
Betting on Tools that Power Blogs
Olga Kharif of BusinessWeek wrote about the companies building weblog tools and the venture capital that follows. Ask David Sifry when his little San Francisco startup called Technorati will turn a profit, and he laughs contagiously. No, Technorati, which tracks Web logs, or blogs, and will soon offer blog searches, is a long way from turning a profit. But it has big-league venture-capital backers like Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital, and they’re willing to wait as blog entrepreneurs cast around for a good business model….
TypePad users receive easy advertising
Six Apart and Kanoodle announced a deal to allow TypePad subscribers to easily add Kanoodle’s content-targeted advertisements to their sites. Expected rollout is Q1 2005….
TypePad adds rich text WYSIWYG support
TypePad now features rich text editing and spell check. Some pretty slick JavaScript and design implementations in the WYSIWYG post editor. Only a matter of time before we see this functionality in Movable Type? You currently cannot preserve formatting when copying and pasting text from a word processor or other application according to the TypePad rich text tips page….
Matt Mullenweg in Houston Press
Catherine Matusow of The Houston Press wrote a feature story about Matt Mullenweg and blogging in general. Matt also announces he has taken a job with CNET Networks in San Francisco. Congratulations Matt!…
Six Apart featured in Wall Street Journal
Six Apart was featured on the front page of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal business section. The title of the article is “Folksy No More, Blogger Firm Taps Big Clients.” Pretty cool to have your own personal WSJ sketch. Yes, the Wall Street Journal’s site is available to subscribers only, so I will summarize some of the new information from the article. According to Technorati Six Apart is the third most widely used weblogging software behind Blogger and LiveJournal. Six Apart counters by noting that it has a large deployment behind corporate firewalls. Corporate customers account for about 35% of Six…
Jay Allen joins Six Apart
Jay Allen is moving from Hungary to California to work for Six Apart. Jay is best known for his work on MT-Blacklist. His code is included in the Movable Type search functions as well I believe. Good to see this happen! I am pretty sure Six Apart has been working on hiring Jay for months. It only took $10 million to seal the deal!…
August Capital invests in Six Apart
Om Malik reports that August Capital is about to invest over $5 million in Six Apart. Update: Mena adds some detail. Business Wire has the press release….