Category Archives: Six Apart

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!…

NewsGator partners with Six Apart

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 moves to Movable Type

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….

Comments fixed

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….

Klip for Movable Type

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. My complete template code is below. I am a single author weblog, so your milage my vary. <klip>   <owner>     <author><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryAuthor$><MTEntries></author>     <copyright><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryDate format=”%Y”$> <$MTEntryAuthor$></MTEntries></copyright>     <email><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryAuthorEmail$></MTEntries></email>     <web><$MTBlogURL$></web>   </owner>   <identity>     <title><$MTBlogName remove_html=”1″ encode_xml=”1″$></title>     <uniqueid><$MTBlogName remove_html=”1″ encode_xml=”1″$></uniqueid>     <version>1.0</version>     <lastmodified><MTEntries lastn=”1″><$MTEntryDate format=”%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S “$><$MTBlogTimezone no_colon=”1″$></MTEntries></lastmodified>     <description><$MTBlogDescription remove_html=”1” encode_xml=”1″$></description>     <keywords></keywords>   </identity>   <locations>     <defaultlink><$MTBlogURL$></defaultlink>     <contentsource><$MTBlogURL$>index.xml</contentsource>     <icon></icon>     <banner></banner>     <help></help>     <kliplocation><$MTBlogURL$>index.klip</kliplocation>   </locations>   <setup>     <refresh>60</refresh>     <referer></referer>     <country>US</country>…

TypePad’s new look

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….