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Proof of open source incline at SixApart: I happen to think SixApart's decision to make Movable Type 4 open source, under the GPL, is big news.Once again, you have a major vendor being pushed down the open source incline, toward the GPL, by pressure from the marketplace. In this case, from WordPress.WordPress is already open source. Some full...; Tags: Strategy, publishing, marketing, GPL, Distributions, content, business models, Blogroll; Blog posts 2007-06-06
SixApart: Office 2007 can take blogs to business: Office 2007, meet Movable Type Enterprise. According to SixApart vice president Anil Dash business is about to take to blogging as Vista, Moveable Type and Office 2007 interconnect. Dash writes in his SixApart blog: We’re not gonna be...; Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Office 2.0, Microsoft, Blogging, Microsoft Office, blog, Microsoft Office 2007, Movable Type; Blog posts 2007-01-29
SixApart falls to DDoS attack: SixApart falls to DDoS attackDNSAs a 6A customer who was trying to use it at the time, it was definitely a DNS attack. If you knew the IP of the servers, it worked fine.More infohttp://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/112766.html?thread=10387326#t10387326Here's the real shady scoop..http://q.queso.com/archives/001917grrrr..... Stupid zdnet.grrrrr... kill the space in the end of the URL...; Tags: Domain names, SECURITY, NETWORKING, SixApart, distributed denial of service; Discussion threads 2006-05-03
SixApart falls to DDoS attack: According to the SixApart status site their web properties underwent a Distributed Denial of Service attack starting about 7 PM Eastern last night. The only clue they provide is that it is a “sophisticated” attack. I would speculate that it was a DNS attack because it...; Tags: attack, SixApart; Blog posts 2006-05-03
Six Apart and Yahoo! partner to provide blogging platform: This morning SixApart and Yahoo! announced a deal integrating the popular MovableType blogging software into Yahoo's Web Hosting service. By bundling MovableType and web hosting, Yahoo! is targeting businesses and independent professionals "seeking to maintain high-traffic blogs on a scalable, reliable platform". ...; Tags: SixApart, MovableType; Blog posts 2005-12-12

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iPhone is about to get a whole lot more social: As expected, during the company's WWDC keynote Steve Jobs and co. demoed some of the early fruits of Apple's official iPhone SDK and unsurprisingly we saw a number of social applications on display. Social networking While we didn't see the rumored MySpace client, we...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Blogging, Internet, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-06-10
Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents: It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren't taking social software seriously. They can't. Not even if they...; Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Value Chain, Vendor, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Sam, Austin Ventures, Dan, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-30
LiveJournal's new owners stick it to Advisory Board: LiveJournal's new owners stick it to Advisory BoardIt's not like anybody uses LJ anymoreThe damage will be minimal and it will die a quick and painless death. And the only people who will notice are the people who like to reminisce about what they did in 2002.RE: LiveJournal's new owners...; Tags: LiveJournal, Advisory Board, new owner; Discussion threads 2008-03-24
LiveJournal's new owners stick it to Advisory Board: No more ad-free, free user accounts. Having pledged to "do no harm", blogging and social networking platform LiveJournal's new Russian owners are no longer offering new users the Basic Level account, "which traded a pared-down feature set for an ad and cost free user profile", reports ReadWriteWeb....; Tags: Advertisement, Board, LiveJournal, SUP, Corporate Governance, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-03-24
Six Apart jettisons LiveJournal: Six Apart jettisons LiveJournalsome rerference:http://www.msdner.comRE: Six Apart jettisons LiveJournali think someone needs to deeper analysis & review of SixApart and what's going on over there.this story barely scratches the surface, and they've gone far too long without someone doing a significant review of their company / business.there's a bigger story...; Tags: Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal; Discussion threads 2007-12-02
The unofficial directory of the 'OpenSocial Alliance' (26 companies and counting): It seems as though barely an hour passes where some other company doesn't go public with its plans to support Google's recently announced OpenSocial framework and it's getting hard to keep track of them. Not only that, how do we refer to "them" (at last count, 24 26 of them)....; Tags: Alliance, Google OpenSocial, Wiki, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-11-02
Learning to share: lessons from the Data Sharing Summit: This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social networking framework. This is his first report from the Data Sharing Summit in Richmond, CA, which aimed to address the issue of interoperability between social...; Tags: Social Networking, Network, Data Sharing, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Scrounging around Enterprise 2.0 on Boston's waterfront: ZDNet multimedia wingman Matt Conner and I are at CMP's Enterprise 2.0 conference today and tomorrow looking for interesting video opportunities. So far, the lineup is shaping up pretty nicely. Today, I interviewed Cisco's senior veep of emerging technologies Marthin De Beer about the company's claims to have revolutionized the...; Tags: Web technology, Telephony, Office 2.0, IT Management, General; Blog posts 2007-06-19
Proof of open source incline at SixApart: Proof of open source incline at SixApartLiveJournal invented open source blogging.Dana, thanks for taking a look at MT4. I have to disagree with the premise of much of what you assert here, though. Our LiveJournal team, back when they were indepedent before they became part of 6A, *invented* open-source blogging...; Tags: open source, LiveJournal; Discussion threads 2007-06-06
Microsoft to Google: Play fair with your billions: Who says Microsoft wanted to lose DoubleClick to Google? Robert Scoble shares that he “asked Microsoft to buy Skype, Bloglines, SixApart, and Flickr, among others.” If he were currently still chief Microsoft blogger in residence, would he have “asked” Microsoft to buy DoubleClick?Don Dodge, still a Microsoftie, and...; Tags: Microsoft, Google; Blog posts 2007-04-15
Big software firms take aim at Web 2.0: While 2006 was a big year for Web 2.0 in the consumer space, it was barely on the radar in the enterprise world. That didnt stop volumes of press coverage, speculation, and debate about how applicable Web 2.0 technologies -- from Ajax to social networking -- would actually be...; Tags: Web 2.0, Web; Blog posts 2007-01-29
Mass marketing web 2.0 through an unusual source: the channel: There was something about last months announcement about Suite Two the power-combo of RSS, blogs, Wikis and search wrapped in a holiday bundle that caught my attention. Intel Capital, the group who brought together the all-star team, has investments in a couple of the players SpikeSource and SixApart...; Tags: Web 2.0, Intel Corp., Distributors, OEMs, Resellers, Enterprise 2.0, Systems Integration, General IT Services; Blog posts 2006-12-14
Tools for mere mortals: Vox and Google Reader: I saw some of the Six Apart team on Friday, Ben and Mena Trott and Andrew Anker, post launch of their new, user-friendly blogging service, Vox. While an estimated 57 million blogs have been fired up, with a large portion now in hibernation or abandoned, blogging tools have been too...; Tags: Google Inc., VoX, Google Reader, blogging; Blog posts 2006-10-29
A tipping point?: Way back in the early mists of identity time, I was speaking with Bryan Field-Elliott then CTO of Ping Identity about the earliest drafts of the Liberty Alliance protocols, and whether or not they could be used for what we then called "internet identity." (Note: "internet identity" is now called...; Tags: internet identity, OpenID, identity; Blog posts 2006-10-20
Lieberman redux and raising your Web presence: You get the hosting you pay for: Last month, I posted a blog regarding an accusation coming out of Senator Joe Lieberman's camp that his campaign's Web site had been hobbled by supporters of his competitor in the then upcoming Congressional election Ned Lamont. Lamont went on to win the bitterly fought Democratic primary, but not before...; Tags: Lieberman, Web, Lieberman Software Corp; Blog posts 2006-09-06