Six Apart jumps into the social networking micro-blogging fray
Six Apart, the company behind blogging platforms TypePad and Movable Type, has jumped into the social application and micro-blogging fray. A new product, dubbed “Motion” will be out in early 2009. It will be free to users of Moveable Type Pro.
Motion allows users to create their own microblogs that pull in events from over 150 other sites supported by Six Apart’s Action Streams. That includes popular sites like Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Delicious, and Digg. The service also offers full support for OpenID, allowing users to login with their Google accounts, Facebook Connect, AOL screen names, and Yahoo IDs.
Motion will also give users the ability to create their own custom action aggregator, create a private microblog community for internal teams, and create a public social network to connect a company’s community across the Web rather than having to plug into another social network (see our previous report on why this may be a dead end for Web providers in the near future).
You can download a free beta copy here.
Laid off journalists to get free premium blog account
With layoffs at newspapers continuing as media companies grope with reduced revenue and circulation, at least one company hopes to help. Six Apart, a software vendor that makes the popular TypePad and MoveableType blogging platforms, has launched the “TypePad Journalist Bailout Program.”
The idea is that TypePad will give terminated journalists a free pro account that normaly costs $150 a year. Journalists will also tech support, placement on the company’s blog aggregation site, Blogs.com, and automatic enrollment in the Six Apart advertising revenue-sharing program.
The catch: only 20-30 journalists will be accepted. Which makes the whole program seem more of a publicity stunt than an offer of true value. Nevertheless, some 300 e-mail applications have already come in.
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