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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!…
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….
NewsGator Technologies announced a co-marketing relationship with Six Apart yesterday. NewsGator will resell Movable Type and Six Apart will resell NewsGator for Outlook to its corporate customers. The two companies are also planning joint development work. NewsGator will release a plugin in the next week that lets NewsGator for Outlook users post to Movable Type and TypePad. From the NewsGator press release: NewsGator and Six Apart, the leading provider of weblog publishing software, announced a co-marketing relationship focused on enterprise sales of the two companies' leading technology platforms. NewsGator also announced that it will be releasing new plug-ins and other…
Java.net is a Sun Microsystems site serving as a common area for conversations and development projects related to Java technology. As of last Monday the site is now powered by Movable Type. Movable Type provides the features weblog authors were requesting such as XML-RPC….
Andrew Anker, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for Six Apart, joined the board of directors of VA Software. VA Software owns Slashdot and SourceForge….
Feedster would like to contract hire a Movable Type plugin developer to "inject new content into the feed creation process." Check out the full posting on the Six Apart Professional Network. What would Feedster like to inject into a feed? My guess is advertising….
I thought it was a little odd that I had no comments on the site for a week. Turns out an error in MT-Blacklist prevented any comment submission good or bad. I have dumped MT-Blacklist and comments should now be submitted for approval as usual….
I just added a Klip template to my Movable Type installation. The Klip file is defines a RSS file location as one of its elements and adds descriptive tags for consumption by the Serence KlipFolio application.
Six Apart introduced new designs for TypePad designed by Dave Shea. The templates focus on mixed media display such as a photo collection. Video and audio are supposed to be better integrated as well, so hopefully Six Apart added support for RSS enclosures. Post via e-mail is also improved, allowing for up to 5 e-mail sources….
TypePad and Nokia have partnered for Nokia's Lifeblog service. Uers will now be able to upload multimedia to their TypePad weblog using the Atom protocol. The service is currently being demonstrated at DEMOmobile in La Jolla….
Movable Type 3.1 has been released and is now powering this weblog. :) The new Movable Type Plugin Directory is live as is the Six Apart Professional Network….
The Six Apart Professional Network is live but bare bones at the moment. Plugins directory will relaunch soon. Some interesting things to note. Plugins tested with Movable Type 3 will receive a special mark. Yes! It looks like the TypePad account will no longer happen and will instead be discounts available for "Network members who qualify." Movable Type 3.1 should be released this afternoon….
Movable Type 3.1 is four days from release. The Six Apart Professional Network will launch concurrently. After the Labor Day weekend work will inevitably start on the next version of Movable Type. What would you like to see in the next version of Movable Type? If Six Apart does not build your wish list item, a member of the professional network just might build it for the community and/or profit. If your feature is already present in other software, please provide a pointer for background information….
This week my comment spam has outpaced my e-mail spam. The comment spammers use varied IP addresses, so an IP block does no good. MT-Blacklist is not working for me at the moment but hopefully I will have it installed when the final bits ship with Movable Type 3.1 next week. MT-Blacklist blocks comments based on keywords and link usage, not just IP block. How bad is the problem? Only 7.7% of the comments submitted to my site are legitimate comments. I could restrict to only TypeKey comments, but even a Six Apart employee does not use TypeKey when leaving…
Movable Type 3.0 introduced the MTIfNonZero template tag.
Six Apart on Monday issued a press release about the upcoming Six Apart Professional Network. Over 1,000 people have pre-registered to join the network. Anil Dash's title changed from vice president of business development to vice president of the Six Apart Professional Network. Although the network was announced it will supposedly not be live until Movable Type 3.1 launches….
Jay Allen released MT-Blacklist 2.0e today. The new version is compatible with Movable Type 3.0x releases but not compatible with 3.1 beta. As the developer of the #1 Movable Type plugin I am curious how the licensing and donation system is working for Jay. Jay asks for $100 per author for commercial use of the plugin and $5 per author for educational and non-profit use. For a 5 author installation with each author using MT Blacklist Six Apart would receive a licensing fee of $200 and Jay would receive a licensing fee of $500. As the perl hacker/source code reader…
Movable Type 3.1 adds Technorati to a list of selectable pings. Currently Movable Type weblogs can ping weblogs.com and blo.gs if the option is selected in their configuration space. My configuration screen does not currently show the Technorati ping option, but the hooks are in the code and database. [Update 8/17: The Technorati checkbox appears in the configuration space starting with version 3.1b2]…
When Movable Type 3.0 was released on May 15 a professional network was planned and better communication with developers promised. The Plug In to Movable Type 3.0 Developer's Contest came and went and to developers not attending the BlogOn awards ceremony it seems the network remains silent. The contest page has not even been updated with the list of winners. Two months later and Six Apart may have succeeded at getting developers out of the woodwork. Designers, consultants, IT/IS managers, and enthusiasts are still untapped areas of the idealized network. Movable Type 3.1 highlights the ability of independent developers through…
Farhad Manjoo wrote an article about the history Six Apart for Salon. I never realized that the events of September 11, 2001 made Mena think that blogging was a bit trivial. I feel the opposite is true. When a major event happens people are looking for an outlet. Craig's List was full of postings from people coping with what just happened. My relatives in Ireland wanted to know how we were reacting and what changed. Everyone was watching and listening for the latest news. If the entire point of creating a blog is to talk about yourself, or to get…
Ben Hammersley published the first draft of a chapter from his upcoming book, "Hacking Movable Type," dealing with the Atom Publishing Protocol and Movable Type. I never noticed my Atom authentication token in Movable Type until I read Ben's chapter. It provides an interesting overview of the Atom Publishing Protocol implemented in Perl….
Six Apart just announced their Movable Type 3.1 Sneak Peek mixer next Thursday, August 12, at 5:30 p.m. It's in San Francisco, so I will definitely be there….
I have a recently updated key from my previous donation to Movable Type. My pings are still accepted by the Movable Type server and I appear on the recently updated list, even though I do not have a Personal Edition license. I am not sure how long it will last, but worth noting for everyone confused about Movable Type changes….
I just upgraded my weblog to Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition, also known as Movable Type Free. Limitations of the license: No support from Six Apart No access to paid installation service No access to fee-based services No promotion of your weblogs through the Recently Updated list No commercial usage No more than one author and three weblogs Sounds okay to me! Paid licenses start at $70 and includes "a guaranteed path to future versions." If Movable Type does change, at least all the entries are on my own server, in MySQL, and I can move to a separate publishing…
Ben and Mena Trott of Six Apart will give a presentation to the Silicon Valley WebGuild on Wednesday, April 14 at 7 PM. Free for members or $5 for non-members….