Posts Tagged with ‘Movable-Type’

SXSW begins this coming Friday, 7 March, and it will mark the first anniversary of Twitter's explosion on the scene. This past weekend, Twitter was down again, but this time, it was a planned outage to prep the servers for the predicted hammering of their system when SXSW convenes. Of course, you can always continue on Tweeting from the web or your IM client, but an entire cottage industry has sprung up around Twitter since SXSW '07, giving you tons [...]

Users of the Movable Type 4.1 blogging platform from Six Apart can now enjoy the added benefits of microblogging with a new plugin known as Action Streams, which is part of the company's strategy towards more social openness.
With Action Streams, which works similarly to Facebook's news feed and FriendFeed (previously covered here), bloggers can “aggregate, control, and share” actions around the web, while avoiding some of the problems that have plagued current offerings. For example, Six Apart mentions that users [...]

Last month Leslie asked if 2008 would be the year of Open Source, and I commented that most successful Open Source applications ended up bankrolled and under the control of one of the major industry players. Sun just rolled one more Open Source app under it's gigantic umbrella, this time purchasing MySQL AB for 1 billion USD. It may be shaping up to be the year of acquiring Open Source.
In the old days, if you needed a [...]

Disqus is a new comment/discussion startup debuting today, and quite frankly it is very promising. This logical - enhanced online discussion tool allows blogs, websites and visitors to benefit from comments and relevant discussions in several ways. Disqus allows site owners to create custom discussion forums interfaced with a comments aspect for blogs and websites. The service can be utilized as a stand alone forum or as a companion to the comments tools. Disqus founder Daniel Ha told me that [...]

Everyone's been abuzz about Dave Winer and his take on Google and Feedburner. According to Winer, this may CRIPPLE blogging, people! Google may tie Feedburner to Google Reader and if you don't use Feedburner, your blog may end up NOT WORKING in Google Reader.
There are days I wish I had the power Dave Winer does when it comes to reaction to something I write. Of course, I'd use my powers for good, not evil. In his "update" on the brouhaha [...]

Movable Type, a “publishing platform” created by the folks at SixApart, has been released in 4.0 form – and it’s going to have its source code open for all to see in a few months.
It's about time.
SixApart will be throwing Movable Type into the OSS (open source software) ring around the end of Q3 ‘07, and with version four packed with “more than 50 new features, including a new installation and upgrade wizard, easier and more powerful [...]

For all the hype that follows YouTube, Flickr and other new Web 2.0 offerings, the biggest Web 2.0 success story has really been weblogs and blogging. A report on Technorati talks about the explosive growth; the number of blogs today is over a 100 times what it’s been 3 years ago, with the size doubling every 200 days or so. Yet, the Technorati count of 55 million excludes spam blogs, and others that don’t exactly meet their criteria as being [...]