Category Archives: Six Apart

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….

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 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….

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…

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….

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….

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….

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 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 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…