Six Apart Launches Movable Type 3.2 at Blog Business Summit
Six Apart, maker of award-winning Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal weblog software, publicly unveiled the forthcoming 3.2 version of Movable Type at the Blog Business Summit in San Francisco today.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 22, 2005 -- Six Apart, maker of
award-winning Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal weblog software, publicly
unveiled the forthcoming 3.2 version of Movable Type at the Blog Business Summit
in San Francisco today.
After two days of sessions covering in-depth
practical uses of blogs in business, Six Apart revealed to attendees several
groundbreaking capabilities coming to what has already been called “the most
powerful and customizable weblog publishing system available today.”
“Any
business that is executing on a blogging strategy must seriously consider
Movable Type as its primary platform,” said Steve Broback, founder and host of
the Blog Business Summit. “After seeing all the new features, Movable Type is
becoming an even more remarkably compelling architecture.”
Now in its
fourth year of development, the latest version of Movable Type includes over 100
new features and improvements and demonstrates why Movable Type is the most
powerful, customizable, manageable and usable weblog platform for businesses
available today. Anil Dash, vice president of Six Apart's Professional Network,
and Jay Allen, product manager for Movable Type, demonstrated key new 3.2
features, including:
* Powerful weblog administrator tools. Manageability
andsimplicity are addressed by a high-level overview of all the weblogs,entries,
feedback, authors and plugins that the platform supports.
* Rich comment
and TrackBack management tools. Powerfulspam prevention tools provide businesses
with control and efficientmanagement of group and customer communication.
* A robustsearch-based interface. Context-aware search capabilities
enable users to easily find (and optionally replace) information throughout the
application.
* Dynamic blogging tools. Users can create and manage as
many blogs as they need, whether it'sone per person in a workgroup, one per
project in a company, or one permember of a family.
In addition, Six
Apart is renowned for having the best support in the business and the expertise
of the Six Apart Professional Network, a global community of thousands who offer
consulting, customization, design, development, and integration on top of its
platforms. As a result, a directory of hundreds of plugins is available to
expand Movable Type's functionality.
The product is expected to be
available for download on August 22, 2005, from Six Apart's website: www.sixapart.com/movabletype
“The Blog Business Summit
conferences assemble the most discerning audience of professional bloggers and
business communicators in today's workplace, making it the perfect forum for the
first public demonstration of Movable Type 3.2,” said Mena Trott, Six Apart's
co-founder and president. “Passing the scrutiny of this audience is the true
test of Movable Type's power.”
About Blog Business Summit
The
Blog Business Summit is the gathering place for corporate and entrepreneurial
bloggers to exchange information about how best to leverage the blogosphere to
benefit their commercial ventures. For more information about the Blog Business
Summit, visit the conference weblog at www.blogbusinesssummit.com.
About Six Apart
Six
Apart Ltd., based in San Francisco, California, is the award-winning pioneer in
weblog software and services. The company's Movable Type publishing platform and
TypePad personal weblogging service power the world's premiere weblogs for both
business and individual use, and its LiveJournal service is one of largest
online communities organized around personal journals. Founded by husband and
wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott in 2002, Six Apart's sole focus is to
create the tools that enable individuals, organizations, and corporations to use
the web to communicate. For more information about Six Apart, TypePad,
LiveJournal and Movable Type, visit the Six Apart corporate weblog at www.sixapart.com.
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