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Movable Type 3.17 released

Six Apart just released version 3.17 of Movable Type, a minor bug fix upgrade.

Anil Dash in New York Times wearing a goatse shirt

Anil Dash appears in the Thursday, June 2, edition of The New York Times posing in the Six Apart offices wearing a goatse t-shirt. I think it's in bad taste to appear in a national publication in your employer's offices while wearing apparel promoting pornography but that's just me. (via Boing Boing)Tags: goatse…

Customizing default ping options in Movable Type

Movable Type allows you to easily publicize your blog by pinging Weblogs.com, blo.gs, and Technorati with each post. Movable Type administrators should view these three built-in services as default options that can be easily changed for each Movable Type installation. Think of the three checkboxes above as three variables: BlogsPingURL, WeblogsPingURL, and TechnoratiPingURL. These variables can be overridden in your Movable Type configuration file (mt.cfg) by adding a line with the variable name and value. Each replacement server must be a valid XML-RPC ping beacon similar to Weblogs.com. BlogsPingURL http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ Adding the line above to your mt.cfg file will send…

One year since Movable Type 3.0

A year ago today Six Apart launched Movable Type 3.0 and introduced their new pricing structure and rebranded as a publishing platform. The announcement resulted in over 800 TrackBack links. Each Movable Type download had yielded $0.38 and the company decided it was time for a new pricing structure. Six Apart underestimated the community's reaction to the change. The commercial license pricing remains unchanged a year later while the personal licenses are a lot cheaper than originally announced. Six Apart has since introduced educational, non-profit, developer, and single author personal use licenses for their software….

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.

SpamLookup testing

Over the weekend I installed SpamLookup after rave reviews.

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.

Movable Type Wikipedia entry

I just updated the Movable Type Wikipedia entry with an extended history of the product.

Six Apart dinner tomorrow cancelled

I just called the restaurant to cancel tomorrow night's dinner in celebration of two years of Six Apart.

OpenSearch standard using Movable Type

OpenSearch is a search plugin technology building on RSS to allow search providers to provide searches to a multitude of sites from a common search protocol.

Six Apart article in AP

Ben is shy and gets uncomfortable when people talk about him," said Andrew Anker, Six Apart's executive vice president of corporate development. "Mena gets upset when everyone is not talking about her every day.

Six Apart site redesign

I just noticed the new website design over at Six Apart. Lots of colors and rounded corners. They used real employees and not models or stock images to decorate their pages. Every page on the site is powered by Movable Type. Mule Design handled the redesign. Their news and events feeds are passed through FeedBurner. The Movable Type home page is now a subdirectory of Six Apart. Six Apart added a contact form for security vulnerabilities….

Six Apart HQ visit

Yesterday I dropped by the Six Apart headquarters unannounced. Everyone was very busily working for 4 p.m. on a Friday. I took some pictures of their new office space. The office layout is open and airy allowing for easy collaboration between teams. There are plenty of conference rooms if you would like some privacy. Two conference rooms are identified as Movable Type and TypePad battlegrounds as the War Room and the Make Love Not War room respectively. The central core of the office space contains lounge areas, executive offices, and a kitchen. Their kitchen had four or five refrigerators,…

Doug Bowman photo gallery using Movable Type

Doug Bowman designed a photo gallery using Movable Type, Mac software iPhoto and Photon. View Doug's New Zealand gallery and remind yourself the whole thing is powered by Movable Type entries and categories. I especially like the slide effect with the labels….

Six Apart to buy Live Journal

Om Malik reports Six Apart will acquire Live Journal and the deal should close by the end of the month. WOW. Om has been correct in every scoop I have seen, so I consider this news very accurate. Update: It's official. From Mena: "While the code bases will remain separate (since LiveJournal is of course remaining Open Source), we will have unification through APIs, syndication formats and shared functionality (i.e. TrackBack support)." Big news! I wonder if all the LiveJournal employees will move to San Francisco, but some personnel will inevitably be lost. When a company is trying to grow…

Six Apart moves into its new SoMa office

Today Six Apart moved into its new offices. No more interviews at the Tokyo Star, or driving to work for a lot of people. Moving into new space closer to home must have a big "we made it" feeling and make you realize how you have created something where there was nothing before. Congratulations Six Apart, and may your new pad be full of many bits of moving type….

Six Apart business figures

San Francisco Business Times writes about Six Apart's planned move to San Francisco next month. Some interesting statistics: $2 million in revenue for 2004.$5 million projected revenue in 2005.New office space on 4th Street is 14,000 square feet.40 employees in San Francisco, 11 in Paris, 12 in Tokyo.Plans to add 60 employees in the next eighteen months….

Recent Comments RSS Feed Template for Movable Type

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….

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….

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…

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