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21-488: The company was founded in September 2001 after Ben, during a period of unemployment, wrote what became Movable Type to allow Mena to easily produce her weblog. When version 1.0 was put on the web, it was downloaded over 100 times in the first hour. In 2003, Six Apart received initial venture capital funding from a group led by Joi Ito and his Neoteny Co., which allowed the company to hire additional employees, acquire

42-456: A French weblog publishing company, and unveil plans for what was to become its hosted weblog publishing system, TypePad. In 2004, Six Apart completed a second round of funding with August Capital , which allowed it to make acquisitions of other companies. In January 2005, Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, parent company of LiveJournal , from owner Brad Fitzpatrick , who was named Six Apart's chief architect. In March 2006, Six Apart announced

63-427: A Japanese information technology company. As a result of this transaction, the headquarters of Six Apart is now Tokyo, Japan. Nobuhiro Seki , who was general manager of Six Apart, K.K. prior to this announcement, became president and CEO of Six Apart. Movable Type Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart . It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001; version 1.0

84-552: A community site, for purposes of developing an open-source version that was released under the GNU General Public License on December 12, 2007. Movable Type 4's Enterprise version provides advanced features such as LDAP management, and enterprise database integration such as Oracle, MySQL, user roles, blog cloning, and automated blog provisioning. It is also available as part of Intel's SuiteTwo professional software offering of Web 2.0 tools. Movable Type 5

105-471: A final termination date set for September 30, 2010. Beginning from September 15, 2010 Vox users would not be able to post new blog posts. On September 22, Six Apart announced its intention to join forces with VideoEgg to create a modern media company called SAY Media . On January 21, 2011, SAY Media announced that it was selling the Six Apart brand and the worldwide Movable Type business to Infocom,

126-472: A licensing fee. This sparked criticism from some users of the software, with some moving to the then-new open-source blogging tool WordPress . With the release of Movable Type 3.2, the ability to create an unlimited number of weblogs at all licensing levels was restored. In Movable Type 3.3, the product once again became completely free for personal users. Six Apart released a beta version of Movable Type 4 on June 5, 2007, and re-launched movabletype.org as

147-581: A working group in February 2006 to improve the Trackback protocol with the goal to eventually have it approved as an Internet standard by the IETF . One notable blogging service that does not support trackback is Blogger . Instead, Blogger provides "backlinks", which allow users to employ Google's search infrastructure to show links between blog entries. A trackback is an acknowledgment. This acknowledgment

168-462: Is a system which needs to be installed on a user's own web server, TypePad, Vox, and LiveJournal were all hosted weblog services. LiveJournal, purchased in 2005, was sold in 2007. Shortly before being acquired by web advertising firm VideoEgg to form SAY Media in September 2010, Six Apart announced that it would be shutting down the Vox service at the end of that month, leaving TypePad and Movable Type as

189-583: Is linking to their articles. Some weblog software, such as SilverStripe , WordPress , Drupal , and Movable Type , supports automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published. The term is used colloquially for any kind of linkback. The TrackBack specification was created by Six Apart , which first implemented it in its Movable Type blogging software in August 2002. The TrackBack has since been implemented in most other blogging tools. Six Apart started

210-486: Is sent via a network signal ( XML-RPC ping ) from the originating site to the receiving site. The receptor often publishes a link back to the originator indicating its worthiness. Trackback requires both sites to be trackback-enabled in order to establish this communication. Trackbacks are used primarily to facilitate communication between blogs ; if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support

231-474: Is used by the commenting blogger, whose software will send XML -formatted information about the new entry to this URL. Some blogging tools are able to discover these TrackBack URLs automatically, others require the commenting blogger to enter them manually. Some individuals or companies have abused the TrackBack feature to insert spam links on some blogs. This is similar to comment spam but avoids some of

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252-427: The TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a "TrackBack ping "; the receiving blog will typically display summaries of, and links to, all the commenting entries below the original entry. This allows for conversations spanning several blogs that readers can easily follow. Blogging software that supports the TrackBack protocol displays a "TrackBack URL " with every entry. This URL

273-821: The acquisition of the SplashBlog camera phone blogging service. June 2006 saw the release of their new Web 2.0 blogging platform, Vox . Its CEO was Chris Alden . Prominent weblogger Anil Dash joined the company in 2003, as did former head of Wired Digital Andrew Anker. Six Apart's board of directors consisted of Barak Berkowitz, Mena Trott, David Marquardt , David Hornik , Reid Hoffman , and Jun Makihara. On September 6, 2006, Six Apart bought Rojo.com. President Chris Alden became executive vice president of Six Apart and general manager of Movable Type . CTO Aaron Emigh became executive vice president and general manager of core technologies. On September 15, 2007, chairman and chief executive Barak Berkowitz stepped aside and

294-507: The company's only blogging platforms. In January 2011, SAY Media announced that Infocom, a Japanese IT company, had acquired Six Apart Japan and that as part of the transaction, Infocom would assume responsibility for Movable Type. Trackback A trackback allows one website to notify another about an update. It is one of four types of linkback methods for website authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who

315-592: The content of the site is changed), dynamic page generation (in which pages are composited from the underlying data as the browser requests them), or a combination of the two techniques. Movable Type optionally supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for user and group management and automatic blog provisioning. Movable Type is written in Perl , and supports storage of the weblog's content and associated data within MySQL natively. PostgreSQL and SQLite support

336-642: The deal. It also partnered with advertising agency Adify. Just as in an advertising network, bloggers were able to sign up and participate in advertising campaigns managed by Six Apart. On December 1, 2008, Six Apart announced the acquisition of micro blogging website Pownce . The Pownce website was shut down on December 15. The key developers of Pownce ( Leah Culver and Mike Malone) stayed on at Six Apart through early 2010, with Pownce technology being integrated into TypePad and TypePad Conversations. On September 2, 2010 Six Apart announced that they would be shutting down their blogging/social networking site Vox with

357-488: Was a fork of the open-source Movable Type distribution, announced in June 2009. Its development was being guided by a non-profit group consisting of current and former Six Apart employees, as well as other consultants and volunteers, but development appeared to cease in the middle of 2011. At various times, Six Apart also maintained three other weblog publishing systems— TypePad , Vox , and LiveJournal . While Movable Type

378-707: Was available prior to version 5, and can still be used via plug-ins. Movable Type Enterprise also supports the Oracle database and Microsoft SQL Server . Version 1.0 was released in October 2001. Movable Type 2.6 was released February 13, 2003. The TrackBack feature was introduced in version 2.2, and has since been adopted by a number of other blog systems. With the release of version 3.0 in 2004, there were marked changes in Movable Type's licensing, most notably placing greater restrictions on its use without paying

399-668: Was publicly released on October 8, 2001. The current version is 8.0. Movable Type is proprietary software . From June 2007 to July 2013, Six Apart ran the Movable Type Open Source Project , which offered a version of Movable Type under the GPL . Movable Type's features include the ability to host multiple weblogs and standalone content pages, manage files, user roles, templates, tags, categories, and trackback links. The application supports static page generation (in which files for each page are updated whenever

420-524: Was released in Open Source and Pro versions in January 2010, with several bug-fix and security updates appearing later in the year. Movable Type Enterprise remains based on Movable Type 4. Movable Type 6 was released in 2013; this release included the termination (once again) of the Open Source licensing option. Movable Type is now available in "Professional" and "Enterprise" closed versions. Melody

441-546: Was replaced by Chris Alden, who had run the company's professional software unit. On December 2, 2007, Six Apart announced it was selling LiveJournal to SUP Fabrik , a Russian media company that had licensed the LiveJournal brand and software for use in Russia. On April 21, 2008, Six Apart said it acquired Apperceptive, a New York social media agency, as part of its new strategy. It declined to disclose financial terms of

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