Congrats to SixApart
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Congrats to Brad and SixApart
Congrats to Brad and SixApart
01/06/2005 12:44 AMAssuming that Om's story is right, LiveJournal will soon become part
of the growing SixApart family. I'm not sure what you guys are
planning, but it sure will be interesting to watch. 2005 is going to
be a very interesting year for this whole blogging thing....
SixApart to buy LiveJournal?
SixApart to buy LiveJournal?
01/05/2005 01:19 PM
Tha
t is big news. I did not realize that
LiveJournal.com, a blogging service
with 5.5 million bloggers, is based on
open source software. It will be
interesting to see how this develops. Will
SixApart work to foster the continued
development of the open source LiveJournal software or will it instead
focus harvesting paying users for it's
TypePad service?
Sixapart revenue model
Sixapart revenue model
02/10/2004 02:59 AMSixapart are in a position to dominate the weblog publishing market,
they have the best pro tool, Moveable type and...
Anothr big hire at SixApart
Anothr big hire at SixApart
08/07/2004 07:21 PMCoolio - so
mebody else to get to know.
I wonder what he thinks about micro-content or digital lifestyle
aggregators?
Sixapart buying LiveJournal?
Sixapart buying LiveJournal?
01/04/2005 11:55 PMXeni Jardin:
There are rumors on the internets that
Six Apart just bought / is buying
/ will soon buy
LiveJournal.
Details as they come.
Update: Om Malik has more:
Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad,
and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed
amount. The deal is a mix of stock and cash, and could be announced
sometime later this month, according to those close to the two
companies. If the deal goes through, then Six Apart will become one of
the largest weblog companies in the world, with nearly 6.5 million
users. It also gives the company a very fighting chance against
Google’s Blogger and Microsoft’s MSN Spaces.
Lin
kRumored: SixApart will acquire
LiveJournal
Rumored: SixApart will acquire
LiveJournal
01/05/2005 03:59 PMIf it proves to be true that SixApart is purchasing Live Journal
then this will definitely be a interesting development. [Om
Malik]
Mena Trott steps down as SixApart CEO
Mena Trott steps down as SixApart CEO
07/14/2004 03:38 PMMena Trott has stepped down as CEO of SixApart, makers of Movable Type
and TypePad, in favour of Barak Berkowitz, one of their Series A
investors. Mena's written a heartfelt appreciation of Barak that is an
instant classic -- a unique example of a company founder's sincere
desire to see her efforts bear fruit, even if she's not's in charge
any longer (though she's staying on as President).
At our office, we had phone cables running up and down walls and
doorframes and across the floor. This mess was around for months until
one day Barak came to work with a T-shirt, some tool-belt type thing
and some device to do phone wiring. During the course of the
afternoon, Barak installed our phone lines and cleaned up the office.
Incidentally, while he was doing this, Maile, our administrative
assistant came in for her first interview with us and saw Barak. A
week or two later when we called her in for a second interview I asked
that she speak with Barak so that he could interview her as well.
After we hired Maile and explained who Barak was she laughed and said
"Oh, I thought he was the handyman and that this company really liked
to get everyone involved!"
Link
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via Kottke)
Responding to Anil Dash's request for
even more feedback about MovableType and
SixApart
Responding to Anil Dash's request for
even more feedback about MovableType and
SixApart
09/21/2004 01:02 AMFirst of all, thank you, Anil Dash, for your patience and willingness
to engage in conversation with critics and fans alike. I would also
like to agree with you about tone, and to note that I did not help
matters with the titles of some of my earlier posts. I think my
criticisms were valid, but the tone of some of the titles was uncalled
for and unhelpful. Second, I can't believe you have asked me to post
more feedback, and are getting me to spend another 2 hours of my life
writing about MovableType, something I just said I wouldn't do again.
Some would accuse you of feeding a troll, and friends have asked me
why I spend so much time worrying about one Weblog / lightweight
Content Management System vendor (it's 'cause I like y'all). As I said
earlier, we all do have more important things to do. But you (and the
Wall Street Journal) asked, so I will try to be brief, constructive
and final. Where I am today with respect to recommending SixApart
products: I would recommend Typepad to a non-technical person who was
trying to start a blog, if they had some aesthetic sensibilities and
weren't too price sensitive. Presuming that SixApart can keep up with
growth and minimize downtime, it's a nice product, reasonably priced
and segmented, and the grouping on Typepad give the author a decent
chance of attracting a readership. SixApart does also seem to be
adding features to Typepad at a reasonable pace. If someone was price
sensitive, I'd send them to Blogger. Blogger's hosting issues seem to
be a thing of the past, there are now some nice templates for it, and
there are still smart people outside Blogger doing cool things for
Blogger. Plus it is free. It is hard for SixApart being in a consumer
business where so many of their competitors are giving away their
product for free. Maybe it makes sense for SixApart to do B2B only?
See below. I would recommend Movable Type for a institution or
business wanting to host a corporate blog that didn't have a lot of
internal technical expertise. There is good documentation, nice
templates, and good support. I don't know if SixApart permits it, but
if it does I would recommend that the business start with 2.661 and
let the dust settle on 3.x before upgrading. Depending on what the...
SixApart merges with Ubl0g to form Six
Apart EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)
SixApart merges with Ubl0g to form Six
Apart EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)
07/14/2004 03:27 AM
Congrats to Loic & Geraldine and Mena & Ben.
I too have started a company with my wife - in fact both wives.
OK - so maybe I didn't stay married as long as Loic - but I am just
an enthusiastic as he is.
:-)
Congrats to...
Congrats to...
01/22/2004 04:31 AMCongratulations to the Kerry supporters. Edwards', too. See you in New
Hampshire :)...
Congrats Jay!
Congrats Jay!
07/25/2004 11:08 PMAbout 10 months ago, I posted a lazyweb request for a blacklist-based
comment-spam solution. Only 2 days later, Jay Allen posted a solution
that pretty much did exactly what I (and many others) needed. Ever
since, he's been adding more and more features to aid in the fight
against comment spam and even started maintaining a master blacklist
people could... (156 words)
Congrats to Om for being Slashdotted
Congrats to Om for being Slashdotted
05/08/2004 11:04 PMThe
SlashDot Effect.
I had only read about the
SlashDot Effect, popularly known as Slashdotted. I had
never experienced it first hand. While I was away in Los Angeles, this
story about the Linksys gateway, which did the rounds in the
blogsphere via Engadget, Gizmodo, Boing Boing , Broadband Reports and
a couple of other
sites, was picked up by SlashDot. (Broke the Blogdex top 50 for the first time as
well.)I had no idea that my innocuous little post could stir up such
reaction. Oh well … power of the Internet first hand.
Next thing I know (rather I did not know) the traffic to the
website went crazy, and quickly site was “off the air.”
Apparently, the number of hits to the page created log files which
tipped me over the available disk space on the server, and the index
page became unavailable. Well managed to fix this problem, but it is
becoming increasingly evident that it is time to go for a higher end
web hosting company. Which is a problem because that is going to cost
money, and well given that GigaOM is more of a hobby, I am wondering
out aloud about what to do next. Suggestions and ideas are always
welcome.
[Om Malik on Broadband]
=====
Speaking of Clay Shirky - we got Shirkydotted last Septemeber when he mentioned the
PeopleAggregator. I had dropped a subtle hint of it's existence and he
immediately picked up on it.
But that was nothing like the real Slashdottin
g we received when Richard McManus' article/interview
of me went live, and first Doc and Xeni/BoingBoing picked it up
and then within an hour - BAM.
Down on our knees begging for forgiveness for days.
Congrats to Jonas on getting a job!
Congrats to Jonas on getting a job!
06/09/2004 05:54 AM
Does that mean I have to wear pants, again?.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's with not inconsiderable pleasure,
that I announce my re-entry into the world of the bi-monthly paycheck.
Starting today I will be getting paid to lend what little of expertise
I have to offer and use it to play with and work on some cool Open
Source collaboration things.
Psyched.
[a preponderance of evidence
blogs]
Collabnet is very lucky to get Jonas to work for them.
Congrats to Rojo
Congrats to Rojo
02/07/2005 01:51 AMEven though we know they got their money long ago - I guess Rojo got even more money today (or
recently.)
So congrats to Chris and Kevin - and let's not forget Mark Graham -
either!
Go daddies go!
Maybe one day even YOU can get bought by a search engine
company.
Congrats to Justin
Congrats to Justin
05/11/2004 01:43 PMWeb Site Founder Flees Mounting Scandal
Today, Justin Hall refused to take
questions on the scandal that has engulfed his personal work on the
web. Amidst allegations that he has fabricated his life, the embattled
Hall today ducked into a black car leaving Oakland for Los Angeles.
The controversy threatens to overshadow his recent work to reinvent
himself as a graduate student and resident of Southern California;
some independent media analysts are now claiming that his plans to
attend grad school and move to Los Angeles are actually premeditated
concoctions.
Hall's late application to grad school and too-rapid closing of his
Oakland estate are leading observers to highlight the chronological
impossibility of events Hall details on his personal web site,
"Justin's Links." Citing application deadlines, researcher Stan
Hodgson writes, "What must have happened is that Mr. Hall applied by
January 30, and then began posting on the graduate school topic at a
much later date, most likely after he'd been admitted, but AS IF he
were still contemplating applying. Certain decisions about the house
were likely made and concluded far in advance of the posting, if it is
indeed the case that he is moving and selling the house."
Hall's web site "Justin's Links" has a reputation for personal
disclosure, as Hall has spent ten years sharing what has appeared to
be his innermost thoughts, physical sensations and pending
experiences. Now it appears that Hall may have been weaving nothing
but a web of lies. Weighing recent evidence and using measured
language, Hodgson remarks: "Mr. Hall's recent posts on this site
suggest a greater than normal divergence between lived experience and
the blogged representation."
Experts are just now unraveling what some call a premeditated
pattern of deceit surrounding Hall's recent announcement of plans to
sell his home and attend school. In a possible attempt to hide
evidence, Hall emptied his Oakland home of five years, splitting his
records between multiple vehicles that were today dispatched from that
location, bearing their contents to undisclosed California storage
facilities.
The crisis threatens to undermine years of good will from
websurfers, who had been lead to believe that Hall was telling the
truth about his life online. James, a frequent commenter on Links.net,
posted this remark in response to the allegations: "I've often
wondered whether there was not a great deal of artifice in Justin's
apparently casual and offhanded (and apparently uncensored) manner of
describing his life." In the days since the scandal broke, a growing
number of voices online have joined James in calling for an official
investigation of or explanation from the elusive Hall.
Hall was seen at an In-N-Out Burger
in Kettleman California, seemingly oblivious to the growing scandal,
and calls for him to reveal the true story behind Justin's Links. A
observer noticed Hall in a corner booth, eating a double cheeseburger
and deleting spam on a laptop hooked up to a mobile phone.
Experts are not yet agreed on Hall's motivation for faking a life
online. But it appears that this callow youth might have finally have
tipped the scales of truth, as investigators could have enough
evidence to indict Hall on charges of false honesty.
Claiming "travel and deadlines," Hall himself could not be reached
for comment.
Congrats to Mikel!
Congrats to Mikel!
09/13/2004 07:01 AMOne of my favorite peeps is Mikel Maron - how moved to the South of
England to go be a college student - again.
But it looks liek it paid off. Along the way Mikel has been doing plenty of contributing
- still.
Unfortunately Mikel is there and I'm here - and it doesn't look
like I'll get back to SF in time for a Sept. 17th dinner in SF - maybe
a week later?
Here's Mikel's post.....
My dissertation is complete! An Ecological Approach to the
Evolution of Complexity
Two weeks ago I completed an intense summer of work and sumbitted
my dissertation for the MSc in Evolutionaty and Adaptive Systems. If
all goes to plan, and there's no reason why not, I will have my degree
within the next month. The research turned out well, and may lead to
some future developments. Here I'm publishing the text (minus the code
appendix) and the abstract, for easier reading flavor. Enjoy! (I am
for sure).
An Ecological
Approach to the Evolution of Complexity
How evolution led to complex life is one of the great questions. This
paper describes simulations that investigate the role of ecological
interactions in the evolution of complexity. Webworld is a robust
model of evolution in food webs. It is extended for variability of
organism complexity under evolution. Statistical and network analysis
indicates a clear tendency for complexification within the model, led
by adaptations that initially disconnect the species from trophic
interactions. This suggests a process where short term fitness is
increased by less connection to the ecosystem, but long term fitness
is insured by incorporation within the ecosystem. Certainly it
suggests a greater role for ecosystems in the evolution of complexity.
[Mikel Maron]
Congrats to Rafat!
Congrats to Rafat!
12/17/2004 06:28 PMTurns out Rafat
Ali of PaidContent.org got married in South Africa and is taking
some time off.
The guy's a monster!
His new wife better appreicate the time she's getting.
Congrats to Ted Shelton
Congrats to Ted Shelton
02/01/2005 08:42 PMTed Shelton
is at Orb Networks - coolio.
Congrats to Userland
Congrats to Userland
05/07/2004 05:00 AM
The transition of Userland
continues.
I go back with Peter Winer almost as far back as Dave.
Clearly this is a company like no other.
Congrats to BookSlut!
Congrats to BookSlut!
03/11/2003 10:45 AMWinners of the 2003 Bloggies
have been announced, and BookSlut won for "Best
Topical Category!"
Congrats To The Meyers!
Congrats To The Meyers!
12/10/2003 05:47 AMCarolyn Maxwell Meyer .. new arrival: Carolyn .. meyerweb ..
carolyn
meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/200312.html#t20031208
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Congrats Rusty
Congrats Rusty
03/08/2004 11:27 PMIt looks like Rusty has gotten a daytime gig as an Internet big
cheese. I notice that the sidebar blurb of Armstrong Zúniga LLC (a
web consulting shop for political campaigns) now says: Rusty Foster
joined Armstrong Zúniga in February of 2004 as CTO. Rusty created the
Scoop software platform in 1999 and founded Kuro5hin.org the same
year. Kuro5hin is widely recognized as a pioneering project in
collaborative media, and Rusty has written and spoken extensively
about the potential of the internet as a medium for collaboration and
grassroots organizing. More...
Congrats to Cory
Congrats to Cory
03/20/2003 04:23 PMHow nuts is it that Cory'
s book was reviewed by Jeff
Bezos and Harriet Klausner, Amazon's #1 reviewer?
And speaking of, how on earth does someone review 4605 products
(almost all books) in just a few years? I'm seeing 4-5 lengthy book
reviews per day in some of her history, how on earth does someone do
such a thing?
congrats on Waxy 2.0!
congrats on Waxy 2.0!
01/22/2004 06:19 PMall of this child's toenail clippings will be archived permanently on
the web in plain text format
Congrats to Justin!
Congrats to Justin!
03/06/2004 01:49 AMJust In Tokyo Released to the Waiting Web.
Just In Tokyo Released to the Waiting Web
I lived in Japan between October 2001 and January 2003.
Mostly Tokyo. I
published a guide book in September 2002, called Just In
Tokyo: "How to Live as an Urban Nomad in the World's Most
Expensive City." It was great fun - I wrote it up and laid the whole
thing out; the pages are busy, just as I like 'em.
My publisher was Garrett County
Press, in New Orleans. After about a year, we agreed to take the
guidebook off the market. I would have published the thing forever,
but it was selling slow (slow and steady!) and losing some of its
direct relevance as it aged.
So I've released it to the web, under a Creative Commons license.
Just In Tokyo PDF - download it for your next trip to Tokyo! Visit
the Tokyo of the [Justin's
Links]
Congrats to Ross et al - keep going!
Congrats to Ross et al - keep going!
04/24/2004 03:25 AMAnd as if (on cue) Ross was waiting for the official
battles to commence, here comes Blogware with....
Busy Week in Blogware-land.
It has been an extremely busy week on Blogwareland. The project is
really firing on all cyclinders and I'm starting to get pretty excited
about the upcoming release. Most of my time has been devoted to staff
training. We took 30 or so staffers through hands-on with the service
in a lab environment and the feedback has been great. I really enjoyed
taking everyone through the in's and out's of Blogware and the weblog
market and it is great to see the rest of the team over here finally
starting to understand why I'm so excited by Blogware and the weblog
opportunity. The blogosphere can be a tough thing to grok for one
person - getting 150 people on the same page is even harder ;)
I finally got the nerve up to steal a
page out of Doc Searls playbook
and go outside of the "bullet-snore-click-snore" structure that
Powerpoint forces on Office users. I've had the pleasure of seeing Doc
"present" a few times and he's really taught me that 60 slides in 60
minutes is only bad if the content is bad...
The dev team is also totally in the zone. A bunch of new features
coming out this week and a few bug fixes as well. I can see v1.0 just
over the horizon...
Something old, something new,
something boring and nothing blue...
Something Old...
Comment Notifications v2.0! Weblog publishers
getting comment notifications is old hat. Now, authenticated readers
can also choose to receive comment notifications on a per article, per
category or on a site-wide basis. Publishers also get to choose
whether or not this feature is even available to their readers.
Something New...
Import/Export. Publishers can now get the
important content out of their old weblogs and into their shiny new
Blogware weblog. Also, the Export feature makes your Blogware content
just that much more portable - great peace of mind. Import initially
supports only MT imports with support for the Blogger, Radio and other
formats shortly.
Something Boring...
Bug fixes. Yawn. ;) Publishers will notice that the webstats are
much snappier now - we realized a ton of performance increases with
some of these new fixes.
Nothing Blue...
No, I meant it - there was nothing blue. Well, just this. Literally.
So what's the big take away? It has been impossible for me to keep
up with my email this week. If you've sent me a message and I haven't
gotten back to you, rest assured, I still love you - its just that I'm
currently 300 messages behind where I should be - and
that's after 4 hours of catch up. Problem is, I'm not going to
get through it all today - marketing needs sign-off on virtually
everything that they've been working on for Blogware this afternoon
and unless I wade into it, they are going to hunt me down and kill me
- probably with a bad PowerPoint presentation or something ;)
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congrats to karen and jake
congrats to karen and jake
08/29/2004 10:53 PMa few weeks belated, but it fits today's theme
Congrats ot Bill Appleton
Congrats ot Bill Appleton
01/16/2004 11:28 AMStart-up DreamFactory conjures up new tools. The
upstart introduces its first commercial product for building graphical
user interfaces based on XML and Web services standards. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
Hey! Congrats to Bill Appleton for getting some press!
We used Bill's 'Dreamfactory' tool to build our prototype
'MyMagicCarpetRide' - two years ago. now Bill has deals with
Salesforce.com and Grand Central Communications.
One thing Martin Lamonica - the writer of the article forgot - is
that Laszlo Systems also
creates "software for building so-called rich clients, or
graphically rich desktop software that relies on XML and Web
services."
We (Broadband
Mechanics) - spent several years trying to build a 'rich-media
platform'. We finally just ran out of money. But Laszlo got it right. Oh -
and Bill Appleton's Dreamfactory - also got it right - too.
:-)
Congrats to Paolo and Monica
Congrats to Paolo and Monica
01/22/2004 02:33 AMWe moved!. 
About two years ago we learned that we were
supposed to leave the apartment we were living in. Back then we
decided to find some land and build our home.
They started
building it last year, in
March.
After endless struggling with real estate agents,
banks, builders, plumbers, electricians, painters, carpenters and a
whole list of other people, last week-end we finally moved to our new
home, during the two most rainy, windy and muddy days in San Martino
del Carso history.
Waking up yesterday morning with a bright
sun (sigh) shining on our bedroom window has been
beautiful.
For the first time in years we are taking stuff out
of cardboard boxes instead of putting it in. This also means that now
I will have again time and mind to fully concentrate on daily work and
writing on my weblog.
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's
Weblog]
I can't wait to go and try out the guest room. Only problem is (I
mean challenge) is that I have an entourage of 4 now....
Congrats to Jon Husband and Qumana....
Congrats to Jon Husband and Qumana....
06/22/2005 02:41 AM....
for sealing their deal with Lektora.
Congrats to Liz and her lab for social
computing
Congrats to Liz and her lab for social
computing
12/22/2004 01:09 AMLiz Lawley has finally gotten her playground to have fun in.
Congrats to John Battelle
Congrats to John Battelle
02/07/2005 01:51 AM
On completing the
draft of his book. All 90,000 words of it.
I'm proud to know
John. He's become a catalyst for alot of things - including some
killer parties on the rooftop of "The Industry Standard".
I still remember standing in line at 4:45 on a Friday - so I could
get a good piece of the roof - as the masses flowed in. It was THE
place to do deals and meet people - at the height of the boom.
Now John has his book and his conference - Web 2.0. Watch for him
to start a company this year. It was part of his predictions for
2005.
Congrats to Mark Jen, now at Plaxo
Congrats to Mark Jen, now at Plaxo
03/14/2005 05:02 PMIt looks like Mark found himself a new job (Plaxo) after a whirlwind
of media attention and job interviews. Congrats, Mark. Lemme know if
you want to drop by Yahoo for lunch again sometime....
Congrats to Eric Rice
Congrats to Eric Rice
03/22/2005 09:39 PMEric has just gotten Warner
Bros to sponsor him and his posse's podcasting.
I guess he beat out Adam Curry.
Congrats to Eric.
Congrats to Bryan Bell on his big
changes
Congrats to Bryan Bell on his big
changes
06/17/2005 04:39 PM
There is no greater joy than making
babies.
Add to that starting a new career
(or at least chucking the old one) is also right up there with
life's greatest challenges.
So good luck to Bryan Bell - we've all been loving his artwork -
for years!
congrats to andrea and jonah
congrats to andrea and jonah
08/29/2004 10:53 PMNYC is clearly in love
congrats to jason and shannon
congrats to jason and shannon
08/29/2004 10:53 PMhey, it's a New York engagement frenzy!
Congrats to Zack and Neil
Congrats to Zack and Neil
06/30/2004 02:25 PMHoward Rheingold on CivicSpace....
I was thrilled to meet a young man by the name of Zack Rosen at SXSW this year, and more thrilled
when he told me that his reading of Smart Mobs was a key inspiration
behind his effort to create the infrastructure for Deanspace. He's been working on a
toolkit for community organizing of the kind that drove the Dean
campaign. Based on Drupal, the
civic organizing toolkit was designed to be easy to use and cost less
than $50/month. It's called CivicSpace. Check it out. It
should be available soon.
CivicSpace is being built with the needs of
distributed organizations in mind. It will give you and the supporters
within your community a solid framework for organizing and engaging
those around you in action. But it also will allow you to plug your
community into a network of other communities where you can share your
ideas, knowledge, relationships, and organizational information. Here
are some things it will enable you to do:
- Create a customizable community driven website with Blogs, Photo
Galleries, User Profiles, Friend / Buddy Tracking, Polls, and File
Storage more…
- Send targeted email more…
- Import and aggregate remote content, share users, and sync
calendars with any other CivicSpace site more…
- Manage your groups membership and contacts more…
- Organize events, ride sharing, and RSVP
more…
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- Collaboratively create, edit, and publish documents more…
- Easily create discussion forum / mailing lists more…
- Allow you to create forms and surveys for data collection more…
- VoterID/GOTV more…
Posted by Howard
at 10:21 AM
Congrats to Ross and Elliot!
Congrats to Ross and Elliot!
04/09/2004 10:30 PM
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New Features: Friends & Addressbook
Blogware users got a small preview of version 1.0 this week with
the release of our new Address Book and Friends functionality.
The Ad
dress Book is a pretty cool mechanism that provides Blogware
Publishers with some pretty nifty tools for managing the relationships
between users and content.
The other new function, Friend
s, is a simple tool that allows users to connect with one
another and will act as the basis for a bunch of cool new services as
we move forward.
Play around with them and let me know what you think (keeping in
mind that this is "pre-release preview beta not-finished yet"
stuff....) [Random Bytes]
I got to be friend #1. Ah the joys of being an 'outside
friend'. One more win for the FOAFnet.
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