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In the News (Thu 23 May 13)

  
  sixapart - TechCrunch
Six Apart is not planning on continuing to build out the core Rojo products.
As previously widely speculated, Six Apart, the makers of the TypePad blogging platform and MovableType blogging tool today announced that they have closed a Series C round of financing of $12 Million.
Six Apart seem to be doing well with a large subscriber base at TypePad and their recent announcement of TypePad business class and a new plan to bring more businesses into blogging easier.
www.techcrunch.com /tag/sixapart   (1259 words)

  
  Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal
Six Apart, makers of the Movable Type publishing platform and TypePad personal weblogging service, announced that it has acquired Danga Interactive, Inc., the operators of the popular service LiveJournal, for an undisclosed amount of stock and cash.
Six Apart Ltd., based in San Francisco, CA, is the company behind the Movable Type publishing platform and the TypePad personal weblogging service.
Six Apart was founded by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott in 2002 and funded by Neoteny Co., Ltd. and August Capital.
www.writenews.com /2005/010705_sixapart_livejournal.htm   (429 words)

  
 Six Apart TypePad Terms of Service
You acknowledge that Six Apart SA does not monitor and/ or pre-screen Content, but that Six Apart SA and its agents shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove with immediate effect any Content that is made available on the Service.
You agree that Six Apart SA shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service.
Six Apart SA cannot therefore be held liable for any loss arising directly or indirectly from the use of, or any action taken in reliance on, any information arising from the Service.
www.typepad.com /siteuk/tos.html   (3012 words)

  
 Six Apart to buy Live Journal?: Corante > Strange Attractor >
Eventually, the furore subsided, but that experience should have provided Six Apart with a good insight into the way in which people feel loyalty to a given tool (even in the blogosphere) and how easily it is to anger people both accidentally and through negligent communications.
Equally, the perception of Six Apart within the blogosphere was badly damaged by that whole licensing snafu - suddenly Ben and Mena were seen as sell-outs who betrayed their open source roots.
Joi Ito, who is Chairman of Six Apart Japan and whose company, Neoteny, invested in Six Apart, is such an astute businessman that I cannot imagine he would back an acquisition like this if it didn't make sense.
strange.corante.com /archives/six_apart_to_buy_live_journal.php   (2249 words)

  
 About Six Apart - Jobs
Six Apart, the creators of Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox weblogging systems/services, is looking for a Software Engineer to lead the technical aspects of Six Apart’s advertising efforts across all its product lines, which include two of the most highly trafficked sites on the internet.
Six Apart, the creators of Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox weblogging systems/services, is looking for Senior Unix Systems Administrators to help us ensure the health, uptime and performance of our hosted services, which rely on an infrastructure of 250+ Unix (primarily RedHat Linux, Debian, and CentOS) hosts requiring 24x7 uptime.
Six Apart, the creators of Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox weblogging systems/services, is looking for Unix Systems Administrators to help us ensure the health, uptime and performance of our hosted services, which rely on an infrastructure of 250+ Unix (primarily RedHat Linux, Debian, and CentOS) hosts requiring 24x7 uptime.
www.sixapart.com /about/jobs   (3219 words)

  
 Silence Of The Blogs - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
San Francisco-based Six Apart is a privately held company funded by August Capital and Neoteny Co. Their service is available to subscribers who pay a yearly fee, which starts at about $50 per year.
Six Apart was founded by husband and wife team Ben and Mena Trott, who developed the Movable Type weblogging software as a hobby.
Six Apart's Dash says he understands users concerns but says the problem was an isolated one, and that the company will make it up to their customers.
www.forbes.com /home/personaltech/2005/12/16/blogging-sixapart-typepad_cx_de_1216blog.html   (1012 words)

  
 Six Apart: Über Six Apart
Six Apart Ltd. mit Hauptsitz in San Mateo, Kalifornien, ist einer der größten und weltweit führenden Anbieter von Weblog-Applikationen und -Diensten, darunter Movable Type und TypePad.
Prior to his position as CEO and Chairman of Six Apart, he was co-founder and President of OmniSky, the wireless Internet innovator which went public in 2000 and was later acquired by Earthlink.
Prior to joining Six Apart, Andrew was a general partner with August Capital where he invested in such consumer internet companies as Tickle (recently purchased by Monster) and Listen.com (creators of Rhapsody, now owned by Real Networks).
www.sixapart.de /about   (874 words)

  
 Content Matters: The 50 Content Companies that Matter: Six Apart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Six Apart is the leading provider of blogging tools to the “professional” blogging community.
Six Apart introduced the concept of trackbacks, enabling bloggers to easily find others who have linked to their blog.
Six Apart has just announced that their new platform, code named Project Comet, early in 2006, which promises to integrate the community aspects of LiveJournal with multimedia and the robust capabilities of Movable Type and TypePad.
www.contentmatters.info /content_matters/2005/09/the_50_content__3.html   (569 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Six Apart Announces NTT License of Type Pad for New Blogzine Weblogging Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Six Apart, founded by the husband and wife team of Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, has been a technological innovator in the weblog space since its launch of Movable Type in October 2001.
Separately, Six Apart announced the appointment of Nob Seki, Representative Director and Country Manager of Japan, to head Six Apart KK, a wholly owned subsidiary formed to further commercialize the company's weblogging software and services for the Japanese market.
Six Apart Ltd., based in San Mateo, CA, is the company behind the Movable Type personal publishing system and the TypePad personal weblogging service.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=64651   (653 words)

  
 Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam
If they do and are reported to Six Apart, TypeKey's terms of service allows us to disable their accounts.
We at Six Apart are of the strongest opinion that this does not signal the end of interactivity.
We here at Six Apart are eager and committed to doing what we can to rid the world of comment spam.
www.sixapart.com /pronet/comment_spam.html   (6225 words)

  
 ProNet
Tim has been a member of Six Apart's Professional Network from the beginning, he is a long time plugin contributor and he is one of the more experienced Movable Type consultants out there.
In fact, Six Apart sent more employees to speak at OSCON than any other conference it attended in its history; and Six Apart had the largest number of sessions among all the other sponsors.
The folks here at Six Apart are always impressed with what a lone seventeen year old a half a world away manages to create in his spare time between classes.
feeds.feedburner.com /SixApartProfessionalNetwork   (4838 words)

  
 news: Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Then one day Six Apart contacts us, we start talking, and here we are.
Ben and Mena, the founders of Six Apart, have built a great company and hand-picked a lot of great people.
So in the end I realized Six Apart was just what I was looking for.
news.livejournal.com /82926.html   (1760 words)

  
 Wired News: Six Apart Leads With Vox
Vox is the latest personal publishing destination to emerge from the halls of Six Apart, the San Francisco company that operates some of the world's most popular blogging platforms: TypePad, Movable Type and LiveJournal.
The social networking and blogging site is a major investment for Six Apart.
WN: Six Apart has raised about $22 million in venture capital so far, and the last $12 million was primarily for Vox.
www.wired.com /news/technology/internet/0,72072-0.html?tw=rss.index   (1014 words)

  
 Six Apart News
Six Apart, the parent company for popular enterprise and casual blogging services like LiveJournal, Vox, TypePad, and Movable Type, recently accepted a Shiny Media award for Best Web 2.0 innovation.
Published by Rafe Blandford at 14:49 GMT, January 8th Six Apart and Nokia have announced a collaboration that allows Nokia Nseries users to send images and video from their phones to Xix Apart's Vox blogging...
Six Apart's Anil Dash was interviewed on The Corporate Blogging Show, which is the Voice America show associated with the blog associated with the book.
www.topix.net /com/six-apart   (663 words)

  
 » Six Apart adds business class service | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Anil Dash gave me the details on Six Apart’s tweaks on new enterprise versions of TypePad (the company’s hosted service) and Movable Type due in the next few weeks.
Six Apart strives for 99-percent uptime, which isn’t exactly enterprise-class reliability.
Six Apart will also offer contracts that give business customers the flexibitily to add and close blogs, and only pay for what they use.
blogs.zdnet.com /BTL/?p=2663   (721 words)

  
 Six Apart does their customers right - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
I’m not sure of the context of this (as I don’t use Six Apart products)- but if this type of thing would even be considered at say..
Scott: Actually, about a week after Six Apart bought LiveJournal, they had a major power outage for about a day — and they in fact offered extensions to all paid members after this.
Six Apart is a classy operation as they have just proved with their options.
37signals.com /svn/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php   (1842 words)

  
 Popular blog site back up after outage - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
TypePad, the blog hosting service run by Six Apart Ltd., was largely out of service from 11 p.m PT on Thursday night until about 4 p.m.
Six Apart's TypePad service is used by some MSNBC.com blogs; they, like other TypePad blogs such as those at the Toronto Star newspaper and one written by Dilbert creator Scott Adams, displayed old content for much of the day Friday.
On Monday, Six Apart announced it had inked a partnership with Yahoo Inc. in which Yahoo would act as the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small businesses.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10496263   (578 words)

  
 VentureBlog: On Board With Six Apart
As many of you know, Six Apart is the maker of Movable Type and TypePad.
As I've said before, "I think that blogging software is revolutionizing the way people communicate--whether to share pictures with family members or distribute a product spec to an engineering team" and Six Apart is at the forefront of that revolution.
It is my great pleasure to join the Six Apart Board and help build what I believe will be a hugely successful and influential company in the months and years to come.
www.ventureblog.com /articles/indiv/2004/000897.html   (459 words)

  
 Six Apart Launches Integrated Moblogging Tools at The Blog Herald
Trott said the integrated moblogging service will also be available to users of Six Apart’s other weblogging product, Movable Type, which is a highly customizable server-based weblog publishing system used by many corporations, pundits and presidential candidates for their weblogs.
In addition, Six Apart also demonstrated a beta version of its client for the Handspring Treo 600, the first of several mobile clients that will be available for or integrated into a broad range of PDAs, cell phones and smart phones, making moblogging an even simpler, one-click operation.
Six Apart’s TypePad weblogging service was chosen by DEMO executive producer Chris Shipley to power the official weblog of DEMO 2004.
www.blogherald.com /2004/02/17/six-apart-launches-integrated-moblogging-tools   (608 words)

  
 Six Apart acquires Rojo Networks
A press release from Six Apart names former Rojo CEO Chris Alden as executive vice president and general manager of Movable Type and former CTO Aaron Emigh as executive vice president and general manager of core technologies.
Six Apart currently licenses TypePad software to companies around the world such as Le Monde in France and Nifty in Japan.
Expect Six Apart to keep acquiring small companies as former-VC Andrew Anker enjoys that sort of thing and consistent cash flows from subscription services give the company good leverage.
www.niallkennedy.com /blog/archives/2006/09/six-apart-rojo.html   (935 words)

  
 Six Apart's Booming Blogosphere
Six Apart has come a long way since the early days, when all Trott wanted was a way to include more comments, designs, and categories in her blog.
They named it Six Apart after the number of days between their birthdays, and transformed the guest bedroom of their San Francisco apartment into a home office.
Trott says Six Apart's new offering is focused not on early-adopting college kids but people who may have aged out of MySpace or LiveJournal's target audience and don't wants blogs to include random comments from teenagers.
businessweek.com /technology/content/sep2006/tc20060925_607937.htm?...   (2114 words)

  
 Six Apart Buys LiveJournal | Kairosnews
Six Apart has released numerous projects under open source licenses in the past and we're excited that we can assist LiveJournal, one of the largest and most successful open source projects.
As has already been demonstrated, Six Apart definitely does not "get it." So if I were a LiveJournal user, I wouldn't swallow any of the other PR fluff being thrown around here regarding this acquisition.
Unbelievable that a company like Six Apart has already become "The Man." Turns out that not only are we bloggers self-referential but also a bit cannibalistic.
www.kairosnews.org /node/4108   (1157 words)

  
 DEMO.com TypePad & Movable Type - Six Apart
Six Apart is the company behind the highly acclaimed Movable Type Web logging software which powers the blogs of presidential candidates, journalists, pundits and technologists, as well as the internal blogs of many Fortune 500 companies.
TypePad, Six Apart's personal Web logging service, lets families and friends easily create public or private blogs, fully integrating text and photos.
Arguably the leader in the still nascent blogging market, Six Apart is offering enhancements to its TypePad service that make mobile blogging, reading, and commenting a simpler task.
www.demo.com /demonstrators/demo2004/54839.php   (238 words)

  
 Six Apart Blogs in Europe
Six Apart has already deployed TypePad in Japan, France and Spain, and plans to launch in Germany next week and in the U.K. by this fall.
Six Apart, which was founded by the husband and wife team of Ben and Mena Trott in 2002, is backed by Tokyo-based venture capital firm Neoteny.
Six Apart also hired Barak Berkowitz as CEO and Andrew Anker as executive vice president of corporate development.
www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/3381121   (699 words)

  
 NevOn: Six Apart may be acquisition target   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The article quotes David Hornik, a Six Apart board member and a partner in August Capital, saying, "Six Apart is not in conversations about being acquired by anyone." Last October, Six Apart received $10 million in Series B funding from August Capital.
Six Apart owns Movable Type, TypePad and Live Journal (it acquired the latter last month through its acquisition of Danga Interactive).
When Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines earlier this week, eyes turned again to Six Apart as the last free-standing blogging service, InternetNews says, speculating that Ask Jeeves might be interested in buying Six Apart.
www.nevon.net /nevon/2005/02/six_apart_may_b.html   (765 words)

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