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Category Archives: Weblog platforms
Flickr architecture workshop by Cal Henderson
Cal Henderson, senior developer of Flickr, is putting on a workshop for 40 people in San Francisco on Monday, June 20.
Responding to Mena Trott
Mena stayed up until about 3 a.m. last night writing a long response to some of the issues raised by Jason Kottke and others about the current cycle of business activity and how companies may not be promoting open community involvement from its employees.
Movable Type 3.16 now available
Mena’s Corner explains some of the behind-the-scenes motivation and corporate changes for this point release…. With Movable Type 3.16, we believe that we’re getting back to the quality of code that our users had grown to expect.
Movable Type 3.16 coming Monday
Six Apart plans to release version 3.16 of Movable Type this Monday, April 18.
Perseus blog study estimates 31.6 million hosted weblogs
Perseus Development Corporation surveyed ten thousand weblogs on twenty leading weblog hosting services. They conclude 31.6 million weblogs have been created on these top hosted services including 10 million weblogs created in the first three months of 2005.
SpamLookup testing
Over the weekend I installed SpamLookup after rave reviews.
Del.icio.us takes funding
Joshua Schachter announced del.icio.us just closed a funding round led by Union Square Ventures. Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Koppelman, Howard Morgan, Tim O’Reilly, and Bob Young round out the investment group.
Correct time zone data in Movable Type
Daylight Savings Time went into effect at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning for most of the United States. Most people set all their clocks forward and did not give much thought to how their weblog tool is configured to communicate time to the rest of the world.
Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress hosting issue
Matt Mullenweg posted his side of the story regarding the Hot Nacho partnership and content placement on the WordPress.org domain.