Yesterday, the web was buzzing due to Six Apart’s mention of a new advertising service and blog management service they are building. The advertising part of their business will be managed by Adify, the same service that so many companies are using to roll their own advertising network out these days, including Forbes, and others.
The […]

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Movable Type is trying to take a bite out of one of their competitors markets by becoming a little more CMS-like with their new Universal Template set.
First off, before I dive deeper into what the Universal Template is, I want to say that when I saw the front end of the new Universal Template, I […]

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In case you have been living under a rock the last few days, Movable Type has started releasing nightly beta versions of their GPL’d open source version of Movable Type.
—MTOS has every feature in Movable Type 4.0 along with several new minor improvements and bug fixes.
—All plugins, themes, templates, designs, and APIs that work with […]

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I have to admit, I haven’t bitten the bullet and tried out the new Movable Type, but reading reviews online, it seems like people are very divided on which software comes out on top. Aaron Brazell, someone I trust, has created not only a review, but some suggestions that SixApart might want to take and […]

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I have to admit, I haven’t bitten the bullet and tried out the new Movable Type, but reading reviews online, it seems like people are very divided on which software comes out on top. Aaron Brazell, someone I trust, has created not only a review, but some suggestions that SixApart might want to take and […]

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There aren’t as many Movable Type users as their once were, but with their latest release, the tides could shift in their favor once again. The new Movable Type 4.0 has some great new additions, and some people are saying that it slightly one-ups WordPress, especially when you look at how great Movable Type handles […]

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If nothing else, SixApart has to be happy at the amount of attention their latest news is getting. They recently released a very beta version of Movable Type 4, and also let the world know they are going to be releasing a GPL version of Movable Type, which will be an open source project.
Everyone is […]

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Six Apart has released a new version of its Enterprise package of Movable Type. Version 1.5 continues to try to set itself up as “the most advanced business blogging platform” through addition of LDAP authentication, support and administration for thousands of users, multiple databases, and plug-in architecture.
The company even goes as far as to says […]

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Niall Kennedy has a post on his blog, which I found via the Blog Herald, that mentions Movable Type has made it to its fifth birthday.
Five years ago today Benjamin Trott and Mena Grabowski Trott released Movable Type 1.0. About 100 copies of the blogging software was downloaded within the first hour of availability, […]

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While we did not convert Jonathan Snook to WordPress, he did decide to drop Movable Type.
I’ve finally given up on Movable Type. It’s done well for me over the years but I was starting to see its limitations with page builds starting to give errors and taking longer and longer to build a new […]

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For those of you that did not know, Six Apart has released Movable Type 3.3, and I have to admit, it fixes many problems I have experienced with MT. Everything seems to run a bit faster, and easier. They have added integrated tagging finally, and I have to admit, I am pretty impressed. I still […]

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TypePad, a Six Apart product (the same people that make Movable Type), have added Technorati tag integration into their blogging software.
They have also redesigned their TypePad site just like Technorati and how they changed theirs recently.
Finally, we threw another “most wanted” feature into the release as well. You can now easily add […]

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Feedburner and TypePad recently announced a partnership which will allow TypePad users to easily transfer their RSS subscribers to Feedburner’s service, which will give them stats and thus a better understanding of their readers. This is the first major partnership from Feedburner, but no doubt there will be others.
To connect your weblog’s feed to FeedBurner, […]

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I was browsing my normal feeds today and somehow I got to ebaychatter.com, a Typepad blog that is used by eBay employees to talk about what is going on with the business, and the community that surrounds it. They also include posts on Paypal and Skype which are both owned by eBay.
A couple weeks ago […]

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As the new version of Movable Type gets ready to hit the internet, Six Apart have let it be known that they are going to run an open beta on it soon.
We have some great news: Movable Type 3.3 is just about ready and the beta test will be starting next week! While we’ll […]

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Over at Business Logs, Mike Rundle, a well known designer, has come up with a little MT vs WP post in which he talks about the changes that both WordPress and Movable Type need to make to really become the market leader. It would be really interesting if they both came together to work on […]

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Blog Flux, a popular blog service, has quietly released their themes database. It covers more than just WordPress, but if it becomes as popular as the rest of its sections, any WordPress themer should add his/her theme.

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Six Apart unveiled licensing changes to its popular Weblogging software, Movable Type this week.

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Apropos of Something? Six Apart announces more changes to Movable Type license
Somebody has a sense of humor about the whole MT licensing fiasco.

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Here’s a nice tutorial on setting MT to ping Yahoo’s RSS database whenever you post an entry, courtesy of Jeremy Zawodny.

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