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| Oct 17, 2024 | Как появился СПАМ — главный бустер киберпреступности | Любите консервы? Или Виагру? Вы можете приобрести их у нас!
Сегодня мы хотим рассказать вам о спаме — о том, как он появился, как с ним пытались бороться и как развивалась эта криминальная индустрия. Мы также обсудим, почему именно спам ста... |
| Mar 14, 2012 | Digg Founder Kevin Rose Shutters Oink Four Months After Launch | Mr. Rose, via flickr.com/joi
Milk Inc., Digg founder Kevin Rose’s new app shop, announced today that it was shutting down its first app project, Oink. The iPhone app was meant as a servicey rating tool, where users could highlight and rate ... |
| Jun 9, 2011 | Six Apart Releases Movable Type Updates To Plug Security Holes, Following PBS Hack | In a message posted on its corporate blog earlier this morning, blogging software maker Six Apart essentially admitted that security holes in its Movable Type product(s) are to be blamed for the recent, prominent hacking and defacement of t... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Sayonara Six Apart Brand and Six Apart Japan | It’s the final chapter of the old Six Apart– literally. Say Media– the videoegg/Six Apart combo platter— has finally sold Six Apart’s Japanese business, something the company has been working on since before the VideoEgg acquisition. The bu... |
| Sep 21, 2010 | VideoEgg, Six Apart form online advertising play Say Media | Life never turns out quite the way you planned. Nor do startups. Two San Francisco-based companies, VideoEgg and Six Apart, are formally announcing tomorrow that they’re forming a new company, Say Media, built around online advertising — a ... |
| Sep 21, 2010 | VideoEgg Will Acquire Six Apart And Rename Itself SAY Media | Advertising network VideoEgg will acquire blogging and advertising network Six Apart, and the combined entity will be renamed Say Media. The companies will officially announce the transaction tomorrow. VideoEgg CEO Matt Sanchez will run the... |
| Sep 7, 2010 | Blog platform Tumblr’s soaring traffic brings growing pains | Tumblr, a social media network made up of millions of personal and business blogs, is seeing massive traffic growth, but is undergoing equally big growing pains.
Activity on the network of Tumblr blogs skyrocketed over the first half of the... |
| Sep 3, 2010 | What you need to know - Friday 9/3/10 | Facebook stalker button, Google to launch music, Vox to shut down, Facebook blocks Ping from API
It's another morning, and you know what that means, more news to keep you up to date on the last day of your working week! Enjoy checking out w... |
| Aug 26, 2010 | What you need to know - Thursday 8/26/10 | Is Six Apart on the selling block, Apple's mystery event, Google phone booths
Its another business day and you know what that means. More news to keep you ready to begin the day fresh faced and well informed.
Six Apart, one of the original ... |
| Aug 25, 2010 | Six Apart, social media’s neglected star, gets deal buzz | For once, people are talking about Six Apart, a blogging pioneer that hasn’t otherwise generated much chatter recently. Rumors are flying that the company’s in the midst of some kind of a deal — though we hear executives at Six Apart are de... |
| Jun 7, 2010 | Six Apart Acquires "Green" Online Media And Ad Network NaturalPath Media | Six Apart this morning announced the acquisition of NaturalPath Media, which bills itself as an online advertising and media network for “sustainable, healthy, and conscious lifestyles”.
With the acquisition, Six Apart aims to expand its ab... |
| May 12, 2010 | Six Apart Rolls Out Sponsored "TypePad Conversations," Your Comments Are Now Ads | Ever since this whole blog thing started to take off, marketers have been trying to horn their way into the conversation. It started out as crude pay-per-post schemes, and then evolved into more subtle “sponsored conversations”. Once Twitte... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Pownce Founder Leah Culver Leaves Six Apart | In December 2008, Six Apart acquired Pownce, a microblogging service that never managed to attract a large following. Pownce was shuttered after the acquisition, but its two-person team joined Six Apart to help integrate the technology into... |
| Jan 27, 2010 | Drupal Goes Hosted With Private Beta Launch of "Gardens" (Invites) | Open source content management system Drupal is increasingly being used by organizations, corporations and governments to power their websites and communities.
To name but a few entities who rely on Drupal for their websites: The White Hous... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Blog startup Six Apart wants to help you build social apps like Pownce | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Six Apart said today that it’s ready to expand it... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Blog startup Six Apart wants to help you build social apps like Pownce | Six Apart said today that it’s ready to expand its TypePad hosting service beyond blogs — now it wants to power “the next Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube.” As an example of what developers can create using the TypePad Platform, Six Apart is u... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Six Apart Opens Up TypePad APIs, Relaunches Pownce As TypePad Motion | Blogging software pioneer Six Apart this morning announced that it’s debuting TypePad Cloud Platform, a new service that enables developers to use the service’s API to build social applications while leaving the storage, infrastructure and ... |
| Sep 19, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we announce our first event: The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on October 15th in Mountain View, California. It’s a 1-day event that will bring... |
| Sep 5, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Smart Cards, Android, eReader Pricing, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we review the state of smart cards around the world, update you on the latest Augmented Reality news, ask whether eReaders are being priced too ... |
| Aug 29, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Augmented Reality Apps, Top U.S. Websites, Tweeting Teens, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we explain why augmented reality is ramping up (and look at three new iPhone examples), analyze the top websites in the U.S., check out new Twit... |
| Aug 24, 2009 | Facebook Snags Open Web Community Leader Recordon | David Recordon, an outspoken young advocate for Open Source and Open Web technologies, is leaving blog software company SixApart to join Facebook.
He confirmed to us that he’ll be starting on Monday with the title Senior Open Programs Manag... |
| Aug 22, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: 10 Exciting Web Apps, Top Twitter Clients, State of Netbook Market, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we poll our readers on their 3 most exciting web apps or services, analyze the latest Twitter client stats, report on MySpace’s acquisition of F... |
| Aug 18, 2009 | Six Apart Equips TypePad For Microblogging, Posterous-Style | Microblogging is one popular type of cake, and Six Apart damn well wants a piece of it too. The company has just added a new element to its TypePad offering: a so-called ‘microblog-style blog’, which I imagine could just as well simply be d... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Buys FriendFeed, Distributed Social Networking, Google Caffeine, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we report on and analyze the acquisition of lifestreaming company FriendFeed by Facebook. We also explore a new trend that may route around both... |
| Aug 8, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Real Time Delicious, Read/Write Digg, Web Squared, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze the impact of real-time information on the Web, investigate ‘web squared’ (when web 2.0 meets Internet of Things), tell you why cloud... |
| Aug 1, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal, Twitter Re-Design, Internet Fridges, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze the deal to bring Microsoft’s Bing search engine to Yahoo, check out the latest social media and Twitter statistics, investigate the ... |
| Jul 25, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Why Amazon Bought Zappos, IBM’s Internet of Things, The Mythical GDrive, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze why Amazon spent nearly a billion dollars to purchase online shoe shop Zappos, explain why IBM is an early leader in the Internet of ... |
| Jul 18, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Apple App Store Stats, The State of Adobe AIR, Book Publishing Revolutions, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze the continuing popularity of Apple’s App store, question the longevity of AIR apps, investigate the waves of changes happening in the... |
| Jul 11, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Tim Berners-Lee Interview, Google Chrome OS, Social Network Stats, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we feature an in-depth interview with the inventor of the Web Tim Berners-Lee. We also cover and analyze the surprise announcement of a Chrome OS ... |
| Jul 4, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Privacy, FriendFeed Trolls, iPhone Push, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the latest changes to Facebook’s privacy controls, investigate trolling on FriendFeed, explore the impact of push notifications on the ... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | Movable Type Experts Team Up On Melody, An Open Source Publishing Platform | A group of Movable Type specialists – some of them former Six Apart employees – wanted to speed up the development of the open source version of the popular publishing platform and decided to group together in a quest to build an independen... |
| Jun 13, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: iPhone 3GS, Real-Time Web Platforms, Social Media Trolls, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we cover the latest iPhone announcements from Apple, look at some new real-time web products that we have high hopes for, investigate the impact t... |
| Jun 6, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Wave Hands-On, Microsoft Bing Goes Live, Real-Time Cellphone Data, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we have one of the very first hands-on reviews of Google Wave, we check out the new Microsoft Bing search engine, analyze another new Google produ... |
| May 31, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Wave, Microsoft Bing, What’s New in ’09, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we report on Google’s announcement of a new communications and collaboration platform called Google Wave, look at Microsoft’s latest challenger in... |
| May 26, 2009 | Adify Opens Up API To Expand Technology For Ad Networks | Adify, a company that powers vertical ad networks, has released its API through a newly formed partner program to allow customers to extend online advertising technologies to the 12,000 publishers who use Adify’s vertical ad networks. Adify... |
| May 23, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Linked Data, Facebook Adds OpenID, What’s New in ’09, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we report on why and how Facebook has opened up to OpenID, explore the rising popularity of Linked Data, analyze the current trends we’re seeing o... |
| May 16, 2009 | Not A Typo: Six Apart Opens Up Suite Of Products For Rival WordPress | Anil Dash, chief evangelist for blogging software platform Six Apart, announced today that blogging platform has launched a a plugin that provides WordPress users with access to a suite of Six Apart’s add-on features for blogs. Dash made th... |
| May 15, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Search Options, Twitter Repliesgate, Web 3.0, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we give you a blow-by-blow account of the Twitter replies policy debacle this week, explain why the new Google Search Options and rich snippets ar... |
| May 9, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Real Time Web, Larger Kindle, CloneCloud, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the Real Time Web, interview the founder of a venture tech firm, report on a new and larger version of Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader, lo... |
| May 1, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook vs Twitter, State of the Web, Google Public Data, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at how and why Google is making public data searchable, provide a succinct update on the state of the Web, review Facebook’s latest effort... |
| Apr 25, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: State of the Smartphone, Google Me, Oprah on Twitter, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the state of the smartphone industry, study new stats showing Facebook’s international market penetration, review ‘The Oprah Effect’ on... |
| Apr 18, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Social Media Monitoring, Future of Firefox, eBay Sells StumbleUpon, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the latest in social media monitoring tools, investigate how cloud computing is being used in scientific research projects, review some... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Web 2.0 Expo, Skype for iPhone, Local Web, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter where the top stories of the week are summarized, we present highlights from our coverage of the Web 2.0 Expo (held this week in San Francisco), review the new Skype app for iPhone, discu... |
| Mar 28, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Ghost Twittering, Last.fm Charges, Future of Firefox, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we discuss web apps that have stood the ’30 day test’ for our writers, analyze the past, present and future uses of the Twitter platform, look int... |
| Mar 21, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: iPhone 3.0, Facebook Privacy Controls, Web-based Books, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we cover the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement, review the highlights from Microsoft’s MIX event, look at Facebook’s new privacy controls, check out some... |
| Mar 7, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: New Facebook Homepages, Kindle for iPhone, DEMO Smarter Web, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook’s homepages, check out Yahoo’s answer to Facebook Connect, review the new iPhone version of Amazon’s eReader Kindle, analyze... |
| Feb 28, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Principles, Amazon Public Data, Times Open, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook’s controversial new “principles”, check out the latest OpenID trends, cover Amazon’s public data initiative, analyze Wikiped... |
| Feb 21, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Mobile World Congress, Yahoo Search, Internet in Cars, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we review the action from the Mobile World Congress, find out why many people blacked out their social networking profiles this week, continue our... |
| Feb 14, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Overtakes MySpace, OpenID Success, Kindle 2, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look at the latest social networking statistics showing that Facebook has overtaken MySpace, review a product that’s had great success using Op... |
| Feb 7, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Latitude, Facebook Sentiment Engine, The Goverati, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we continue our series on recommendation technologies with a special RWW Live podcast and a review of Baynote; we analyze a new Google product cal... |
| Jan 31, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Recommender Systems, Social Media Trends, State of Blog Search, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we continue our series on recommendation technologies, outline 10 ways that social media will change in 2009, look at 8 mobile technologies to wat... |
| Jan 24, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Obama Inauguration on the Web | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we take a special look at how President Obama’s inauguration was covered, analyzed and celebrated via the Internet. Also this week we began a new ... |
| Jan 17, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Product Purge, Jailbroken iPhones, Enterprise RSS, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at Google’s product line adjustments, explain why you should jailbreak your iPhone, analyze the world of Enterprise RSS, and tell you how ... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: 2009 Web Predictions, iTunes Drops DRM, Twitter Security Scare, And More… | Welcome to the first Weekly Wrapup of 2009 – and a very happy new year to all of our readers! First up we look back at our top web products of 2008, then we look forward to 2009 with our annual Web Predictions. In product news this week, Ap... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em. Movable Type's Motion is Microblogging In a Box | Six Apart, the company behind blogging platform Movable Type, has just announced a new social application called Motion that integrates social network-like activity streams, microblogging support, and dead simple login functionality for vis... |
| Dec 13, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Top Web Products of 2008, Shopping 2.0, MySpaceID, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with two more lists: Best Consumer Web Apps and Best RSS/Syndication Products. We also reported on... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | SixApart Hires Pownce Founders, Closes Service | The team behind microblogging service Pownce announced on the company blog today that it is joining blog software company SixApart and closing Pownce in two weeks. Pownce left private beta with a big launch just 11 months ago but the servic... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Pownce Deadpooled, Team Moves To Six Apart | Pownce, the media-rich Twitter competitor once labeled by the New York Times as “the hottest startup in Silicon Valley”, is headed to the deadpool after being acquired by Six Apart. The service, which was co-founded by Digg’s Kevin Rose alo... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce | Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut... |
| Nov 29, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Health 2.0, Tips for Web BigCos, Jobwire Graphs, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we gave you an overview of health 2.0 and followed up with a RWW Live podcast on the topic. We also looked at the state of the art in recommen... |
| Nov 22, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Search Wiki, Semantic Apps, Mozilla Addons, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we pondered the future of YouTube, analyzed mobile messaging trends, looked into a new search innovation from Google, and more. On the product... |
| Nov 15, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: MySpace Profiles, IBM Blue Spruce, Windows Live, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we analyzed the significance of MySpace’s new profiles, looked at how Google is tracking flu trends, explored a partnership between an online ... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Microsoft Azure, Google Chrome, iPhone Apps, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, Microsoft had two major Web announcements: 1) the release of Azure, a cloud computing OS; and 2) browser-based versions of four Office produc... |
| Oct 25, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Platform Blues, Web 3.0, Android Apps, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side this week, we analyzed why platforms such as Facebook and Open Social have been a let-down, we looked at a new (perhaps under-appreciated) plat... |
| Oct 18, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: After Web 2.0, Newsfeeds, Recommendation Technologies, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side this week, we had a great discussion about what’s next after web 2.0, celebrated the success of the newsfeed, looked at enterprise use of socia... |
| Oct 11, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Mobile Web, Google RSS, Social Shopping, and More | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side this week, Google said it would provide RSS feeds of search results, Yahoo updated its calendar app using Zimbra, Mozilla released Geode, Micr... |
| Oct 4, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Nokia’s iPhone Competitor, Netflix API, RDF Apps, and More | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week Nokia launched an iPhone competitor called the Tube, Netflix released an API, Google Blog Search re-designed, and we ran a poll about Flash coming to iP... |
| Sep 27, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Phone, MySpace Music, and More! | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week we had two big product launches: the Google Phone and MySpace Music. We also looked at Favtape, a new startup aiming to shake up the online music market... |
| Aug 12, 2008 | Yahoo Fire Eagle Launches Geo-Location Platform To The Public | Today at Yahoo’s Brickhouse, a team of developers, press, and Yahoo execs including co-founder David Filo converged for the release of Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s geo-location platform. Fire Eagle allows allows developers to include positional data... |
| Jun 17, 2008 | Technorati joins the ad network fray | Blog search engine Technorati has just unveiled its new ad network, Technorati Media. It’s a smart and obvious expansion, particularly as the San Francisco startup tries to regain some of its initial buzz.
There’s heavy competition in this ... |
| Jun 12, 2008 | Six Apart Introduces BlogIt For iPhone | Six Apart has introduced an iPhone version of their BlogIt software, which allows users to quickly post updates to their blogs, Twitter, Pownce, FriendFeed, Jaiku, and Facebook. The current version of BlogIt is a traditional iPhone web-base... |
| May 29, 2008 | TypePad AntiSpam, A New Open Source Comment Spam Fighter | Blogging infrastructure company Six Apart is launching a new free open source product this morning into beta called TypePad AntiSpam. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions o... |
| May 13, 2008 | LightPole's Geotagging Comes to Movable Type | Six Apart, creator of the blogging platform Movable Type, has partnered with LightPole, a mobile application provider. The two companies have co-developed a plugin for Movable Type that will allow bloggers to geo-tag their posts, create geo... |
| Apr 20, 2008 | Six Apart Launches Ad Network, Moves Into Services | Six apart is launching an advertising network for blogs and will begin offering professional services (design, implementation, development, optimization) after acquiring New York based creative agency Apperceptive (this was correctly guesse... |
| Apr 19, 2008 | Who Did Six Apart Acquire? | San Francisco-based blogging startup Six Apart has made a significant acquisition, we heard today from someone with knowledge of the deal. “Significant” in the sense of a possible strategic shift for the company, if not in terms of deal siz... |
| Mar 23, 2008 | Thanks Sponsors; Packages Available April-May | Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking & Social Media.
We currently have a couple of sponsor slots available for April-May on R... |
| Mar 14, 2008 | Get a FireEagle invite while they're hot | I have TEN Fire Eagle invites to give out to the hot new location-based application from Yahoo’s Brickhouse ‘skunk works’. To get one, comment on this post with a decent explanation of why you think location-aware web applications are going... |
| Feb 24, 2008 | Thanks Sponsors; Packages Available March-April | Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Technology trends and products. We currently have a couple of sponsor slots available for March-April on ReadWriteWeb, so if you would like... |
| Feb 10, 2008 | TipJoy – A Better Tip Jar For Content | The idea of a “tip jar” on blogs and other content sites to help bring in a few extra dollars has been around for years. Donations and payouts are generally made through PayPal, and there are a number of plugins for various blogging platfor... |
| Jan 30, 2008 | SixApart Offers MT Activity Plugin: This Is Good | SixApart have launched a plugin for MovableType that offers a similar activity stream service to Facebook and Plaxo, but you get to host it.
The Action Streams plugin, like Facebook and Plaxo, pulls your data from other services and lists i... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Thanks Sponsors & Readers | We interrupt this broadcast to thank our sponsors for supporting ReadWriteWeb. We have a great line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Technology trends and products.
Of course we’re also thankf... |
| Jan 3, 2008 | Is There A Conflict Between Open Social Graphs And Your Privacy? | Techblogger Robert Scoble has apparently been barred from Facebook for running a script from Plaxo to export his relationship information (or "social graph," as the kids say), in violation of the site's terms of service. On one re... |
| Dec 17, 2007 | New Design For ReadWriteWeb | I’m very pleased to announce a brand new design for ReadWriteWeb, including a new look n’ feel and new logo. The design was created and implemented by San Francisco design firm Ideacodes – specifically Emily Chang, Max Kiesler and Bryan Col... |
| Dec 2, 2007 | Russian media company buys online community LiveJournal | SUP, a Russian media company, has bought online blog community site LiveJournal from San Francisco blog company Six Apart.
LiveJournal claims to have more than 18 million unique visitors per month, worldwide, with 28 percent coming from Rus... |
| Dec 2, 2007 | Six Apart Sells LiveJournal To Russia's SUP | Six Apart has sold its hosting blogging platform LiveJournal, which it acquired in January 2005, to Moscow-headquarted SUP (pronounced “soup”), the company said this evening. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SUP previously acquired lic... |
| Nov 1, 2007 | Confirmed: MySpace joins Google’s OpenSocial movement | updated
MySpace, the large social networking company, has joined the anti-Facebook coalition led by Google, we’ve confirmed.
Meanwhile, SixApart, the blogging software company, has confirmed with VentureBeat that it is joining the ever-grow... |
| Sep 14, 2007 | Chris Alden Makes Himself Comfortable At Six Apart | Chris Alden just took over as Chairman and CEO of blogging infrastructure startup Six Apart. Barak Berkowitz, CEO since 2004, steps down. Berkowitz will remain with the company as an advisor.
Alden joined Six Apart a year ago as part of the... |
| Sep 14, 2007 | Six Apart, a blogging service switches CEOs | Six Apart, a popular blogging service, announced it has appointed Christopher J. Alden as chief executive of the San Francisco company.
Alden replaces Barak Berkowitz, who was the company’s chief executive since 2004.
Berkowitz joined the c... |
| Aug 17, 2007 | Jive Software raises $15M, takes on Microsoft in Web 2.0 office | Microsoft Office, the popular office software, works great for most purposes, but it lacks good software for employees to collaborate on products — co-writing documents simultaneously, for example, or letting them archive online conversatio... |
| Aug 6, 2007 | Roundup: Six Apart’s memo, VCs and sex toys, WiMax in 2008, Newser.com & more | Here’s the latest (updated) action:
Six Apart’s headaches — The blogging software market is highly competitive, so small differences in quality can make a difference in user adoption. Six Apart, a Silicon Valley start-up that offers several... |
| Jul 24, 2007 | The Web’s Top Takeover Targets | This past year has been a very eventful one in the M&A arena, with many of web 2.0’s biggest names being snapped up. A few stand-outs include the likes of YouTube, Photobucket, Feedburner, Last.fm, and StumbleUpon.
Yet, there still rema... |
| Jun 5, 2007 | Movable Type 4.0 Beta Launches, Platform To Be Open Sourced | SixApart have released a new beta version of popular blogging content management system Movable Type.
Moveable Type 4.0 is the first major release of Movable Type since MT 3.0 in 2004 and comes complete with a market disrupting announcement... |
| Jun 5, 2007 | Movable Type Going Open Source | Web log software company Six Apart said Tuesday it had released a beta of the newest version of its Movable Type software, as well as announcing the platform would go open source by the end of this quarter.
The release of Movable Type 4.0 r... |
| Feb 20, 2007 | ImageChef, customized text in images | ImageChef, a four-year-old startup in San Francisco lets users simply add text within an image.
Anyone who has tried to do serious image editing know just how tedious it can get. Though the capabilities are currently limited (you can only c... |
| Nov 21, 2006 | KnowNow and WordPress Partner on RSS/Blogging | Automattic, the business end of blogging software WordPress, and enterprise RSS vendor KnowNow have announced a partnership that’s all the talk of the blogosphere. The two companies will offer a joint product that blogs and reads feeds both... |
| Nov 21, 2006 | KnowNow and WordPress partner for enterprise blogging & RSS | KnowNow, a Sunnyvale company that has made early inroads selling RSS technology to companies, has agreed to help sell and support WordPress blogging software.
The deal is significant because KnowNow has quietly been selling nicely priced so... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Web 2.0 investment booms (data on big players & note on Intel) | Updated
Web 2.0 start-up activity is hot, and here’s the latest data.
Venture capitalists invested $455.5 million into Web 2.0 companies in the first three quarters of the year, more than twice the amount invested over the same period last ... |
| Oct 26, 2006 | Vox Lifts Off and You'll Love It | Six Apart announced last night the launch of its newest social networking site, Vox (Vox announcement here). The company that owns LiveJournal, Moveable Type and Typepad has done a lot of things right with this new site. The benefits of hav... |
| Oct 16, 2006 | MovableType Releases Enterprise Version 1.5 | SixApart released today version 1.5 of their enterprise-scale blogging software MovableType. Today’s release is largely in response to customer requests since the 1.0 release of MT Enterprise in July. New features include full LDAP integrat... |