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 unveiling a new… Continue Reading
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 down in two weeks.
The San Francisco startup… Continue Reading
Blogging company Six Apart lays off 8 percent
Blogging may have been invented during the last recession, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune from tough economic times. Six Apart, the San Francisco startup that offers Movable Type blogging software and TypePad blogging services, just announced it’s laying off eight percent of its staff.
The… Continue Reading
Six Apart to launch social networking features for blogs
Blog software company Six Apart is hoping to make its publishers’ sites more like social network. Tomorrow morning, it will launch a new version of its popular Movable Type blogging software that will include profiles, message boards like the “wall” on Facebook, and other features… Continue Reading
ComScore’s June US numbers: Facebook still gaining on MySpace while blog platforms, news aggregators, niche social networks also grow
Facebook gained nearly two million new US users from May to June of this year, while MySpace lost about a million, according to the latest data from comScore. MySpace is still nearly twice the size, though, at 72.8 million national users versus Facebook’s 37.4 million…. Continue Reading
Roundup: Six Apart launches ad network, Microsoft acquires Xobni…maybe and more
Here’s the latest action:
Six Apart evolves into an ad network — The blogging company behind MovableType, TypePad and Vox is offering a new advertising program which will give publishers more control over ads and revenue from their sites. The company claims its ad network will be… Continue Reading
Roundup: The Classmates.com IPO flop, two acquisitions, and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) Classmates.com IPO called off
2) Microsoft buys Multimap for $50M
3) StyleHive picks up StyleDiary
4) Toshiba’s new lithium-ion released
5) Venture Hacks on legal fees and VCs
6) Zoho Show adds on functions
7) Six Apart sets Movable Type free
Guardian Analytics launches product
United Online cancels Classmates.com… Continue Reading
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 Russia. Six Apart previously cut a deal with SUP… Continue Reading
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 company when it only a had a few employees; it has… Continue Reading
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 software systems — both hosted and server systems — to… Continue Reading
UPDATE: Intel confirms investments in Socialtext, SpikeSource, Six Apart, Simplefeed, Newsgator & Topio
See our stories here (scroll down) and here (on Topio). Total amounts of Intel investments are undisclosed.
(Update: To clarify, Intel has made equity investments in Six Apart and SpikeSource, but has only signed warranty deals with the other companies, essentially giving Intel the right to… Continue Reading
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 year.
This comes from the latest survey by… Continue Reading
Roundup: FON’s gambit, Obvious, Zachary’s blog, Vox & more
Roundup in Silicon Valley:
FON exploits opportunity to stir up WiFi interest in San Francisco — Search engine company Google is having a heck of a time getting “crazy nut job” local SF residents to agree to its plans for a city-wide WiFi project. So while big… Continue Reading