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Six Apart Opens Up TypePad

Six Apart, the creators of TypePad, have launched the TypePad Platform, a set of APIs that allow developers, bloggers, publishers, and corporations use the TypePad "cloud".

TypePad Connects You Via Google, Yahoo, AOL, Wordpress, Etc.

Six Apart has made it simple for nearly anyone to sign in to TypePad Connect with other existing accounts via OpenID. If you have an account with Google, Yahoo, Blogger, Vox, LiveJournal, Wordpress.com, or AOL, you can easily sign in.

Six Apart Reveals the Laws of Motion

Six Apart, the company behind the popular Movable Type blogging platform recently introduced a free social application for use with that platform. Now, they have posted the "laws" of this application. Those are:

Pownce Founders Joining Six Apart Team

The first major micro-blogging casualty has emerged over the past week. Pownce, a Twitter-like lifestreaming service, announced it was closing its doors (figuratively speaking) mid-December.

Six Apart Acquiring Pownce, Pulling Plug

Here's hoping most Pownce users haven't made huge plans for their holiday vacations.  It turns out that the launched-in-2007 company has been acquired by Six Apart and will shut its doors on December 15th, so they'll likely need to spend some time becoming familiar with a different service.

TypePad's Blogger Bailout For Laid-Off Journalists

TypePad has introduced a "bailout" program for journalists who have been laid off or expect to be.

BlogWorld Expo: New Media 101

Andy Wibbels, product manager for Blogs.com, at Six Apart spoke about the basic fundamentals of new media and blogging.(WebProNews spent the weekend in Vegas at the BlogWorld Expo and chatted up the brightest minds in the blogging business. Stay tuned to WebProNews and WebProNews Video for updates.)He described a blog saying it "Looks like a diary, but it's not just a diary." Blogs are managed with a blog platform such as WordPress or TypePad.

Movable Type: Blogs Not Social Enough

Moveable Type from Six Apart has a new incarnation out that aims to take blogging in a more social direction. As Om malik points out, blogging has always been a social form of media. On the flipside, sites like MySpace incorporate blogs into their profile pages. But where platforms like Wordpress miss the boat, this new Movable Type incorporates the ability to set-up networks into it.

Learning About Movable Type On Twitter

If you're like me, all you've heard about in blogging software the last couple of years is WordPress. But as a long-time blogger using Movable Type, I wondered what they have been up to. And then Twitter brought me together with Byrne Reese, Product Manager of Movable Type and Community Leader of MTOS at Six Apart, maker of Movable Type and other offerings.

New Communications Forum Discussion Questions

Today I will be moderating a panel at the New Communications Forum here in Santa Rosa, California which I'm particularly excited about because it's exactly the kind of juicy broad topic that I think can yield really interesting discussions.