Tomorrow VideoEgg is expected to confirm that it has bought Six Apart, the parent company of the Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox blogging platforms. The two companies will lose their names and together will become SAY Media. According to Mashable, Chris Alden, the CEO of Six Apart will step down and Matt Sanchez, VideoEgg’s CEO, [...]
Choosing Movable Type as Your Blogging Platform
March 2, 2009 By 5 Comments
Movable Type is the self-hosted blog platform offered by SixApart (also owner of Typepad). Ostensibly, Movable Type is the equivalent of WordPress.org. Put simply: Both are non-hosted blogging platforms that allow you to tweak your own code. Movable Type, at one point several years ago, was set to be a “potential successor to the kingdom [...]
Choosing a Blogging Platform
January 21, 2009 By 32 Comments
When you decide to start your own blog, there are many choices to be made. The very first choice is which platform to use. The most popular blog platforms are Blogger, WordPress.com, and WordPress.org. This article will explain the basic differences of these platforms and the pros and cons of each. When choosing your blog [...]
