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  • valleywag

    The Comical Facebook Land Rush You Should Ignore

    Sad Web nerds plan to stay in front of their computers late Friday night to obtain short, easy-to-remember Facebook addresses ("facebook.com/sadwebnerd"). It's the start of a geeky land grab! But true geeks know why this is stupid. More »
    06/11/09
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    By Ryan Tate

    Comment by Mount_Prion: facebook.com/first 4 Responses | Other threads

  • livejournal

    The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network

    The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.
    01/06/09
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by RevHalofan: How do I archive my blogs over there somewhere else? This is like mom throwing my diary in the fireplace,... 9 Responses | Other threads

  • pownce

    Temptress of Silicon Valley shuts down useless site

    Earlier this year, Leah Culver appeared on the cover of a tech magazine blowing an enormous pink bubble. But the shrill-voiced San Francisco programmer no longer desires fame — even the modest sort afforded Silicon Valley's microcelebrities. The turnabout seems odd, considering how aggressively she once courted notoriety.
    12/01/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by jpontin: "Is it sexist to point this out?" Ah, yeah, Owen - it kind of is. People date in their own... 10 Responses | Other threads

  • Ben and Mena Trott

    Six Apart founders return from Disneyland, mouse ears held high

    All right, all right: Perhaps it was a tad bit mean-spirited to begrudge young parents their first vacation to Disneyland with a child. Six Apart president Mena Trott, who spent the weekend in the happiest place on earth with husband and CTO Ben Trott, is hilariously unapologetic about taking a vacation right after laying off 16 staff members at the blog-software company they cofounded. Beating Valleywag to the punch, she's written the worst captions she could invent on pictures of her highly adorable daughter and way hot husband at the theme park. Not that this will be any comfort to the people she laid off, who will only remember how Trott followed up the cuts by announcing that she was going to Disneyland in the manner of an NFL player who just spiked a football in the end zone.
    11/17/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by michaellamb: If they are "super rich" and they laid off workers, then they suck. Captions were funny but i'm sure the laid... 6 Responses | Other threads

  • death of print

    Blog vendor offers to insult every pro journalist on Earth

    Have you spent years building your reputation as a reporter? Are you a bit anxious, because you read a rant by Jeff Jarvis that says you're now unemployable for life? Never fear. Smug-faced Six Apart CEO Chris Alden is here to save you with The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program. How it works: You send Six Apart a link to "your last piece for a newspaper, magazine or broadcast journalism venue." Six Apart gives you a free TypePad blog. You get to keep a few pennies of the couple of bucks per month Six Apart will make from ads they'll run on your blog. Most important, the inept, self-aggrandizing management team at Six Apart gets to brag about all the storied journalists they've now got blogging for them. Thanks for the offer, Chris. But I'd rather saw my own head off.
    11/17/08
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    By Paul Boutin

    Comment by anildash: Hi Paul, thanks for the link to the bailout program. You can feel free to substitute my smug face if... 2 Responses | Other threads

  • Ben and Mena Trott

    Layoffs? They're going to Disneyland!

    Six Apart, the San Francisco blog-software company which helped spark the blogging boom, just laid off 16 of its 200 employees. And its top executives took a 15 percent paycut. Such noble sacrifice! Except that those cutbacks have not crimped the holiday plans of cofounders Ben and Mena Trott. She surprised her husband with an irony-free trip to Disneyland. That they can so blithely afford the trip reminds me of persistent rumors that the couple cashed out some of their shares in the privately held company when it took an earlier round of venture capital. (Photo by Jackson West)
    11/15/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by Penelope Trott: Owen, why do you hate my parents? 3 Responses | Other threads

  • drugs

    For layoff pain, you really can't beat nitrous oxide

    A tipster swears he saw a Six Apart employee "at a bar in the Lower Haight today inhaling massive amounts of Nitrous Oxide in the corner and passing it around, no joke. I wonder if he was laid off." Do you know what that stuff costs? It's far more likely that Mr. Whip-It still has a job, and can't show up drunk today.
    11/12/08
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    By Paul Boutin

    Comment by Uncle-Sam's Littlle Helper: I could have told you tjhat 5 years ago. At my High (sic!) School people did that NO2 stunt and... more » | Other threads

  • blogging for dollars

    Six Apart lays off 16-plus employees

    Chris Alden, CEO of blog-software maker Six Apart, understands his business so well that he posted his own internal memo before any pesky gossip bloggers could extract it from his loquacious employees. He's also sensible enough to admit that there's more to blame for the layoffs than the economy — like the integration of recent acquisitions. He also snuck in a well-disguised hint that the company is cash-flow positive. Well played, Chris! The company is laying off 8 percent of its 200-plus workforce, and shifting more resources into its services business. Cofounder Ben Trott is taking a bigger role running Six Apart's blog-hosting business. Alden and other top managers are taking a 15 percent paycut. The only disappointment: That the company didn't kill off Vox, its interminably boring free personal blogging service.
    11/11/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by Snarkosaurus: Canned 16 employees? That seems like a typical month at Six Apart. They more people than any company... more » | Other threads

  • brad fitzpatrick

    Six Apart exec on LiveJournal founder: "Waaaaay down the path to madness"

    Brad Fitzpatrick has a Googlephone, and you don't. And what's he doing with his amazing Android-powered toy? Using Google's mobile operating system, Fitzpatrick is coding an automatic garage-door opener, which senses the presence of his phone using Wi-Fi. He can do this because he's already hooked his garage door up to a Web server. Writes Six Apart executive Michael Sippey on this momentous occasion: More »
    10/21/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by tolles: Actually, having read the orginal post, the key here is that Brad rides a motorcycle...*every* motorcyclist has dreams of not... 1 Responses | Other threads

  • great moments in pr

    Six Apart's intern blame game takes the "man" out of "manager"

    Interesting things end up in our inbox, but none as cavalier as the nonapology that Andy Wibbels, a Six Apart product manager, sent us. He acknowledges that he unintentionally spammed a number of blogs with a mass email promoting the company's new blog directory, but flips off criticism of the mail's impersonal tone on "one of our interns [who] was obviously mismedicated." I must be doing this intern thing wrong, because my boss has yet to offer me any drugs, let alone accuse me of being on them. Andy, here's a Management 101 tip: Be a mensch and own up to your mistakes. A good leader doesn't let shit roll downhill. Full email: More »
    09/16/08
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    By Alaska Miller

    Comment by andywibbels: I'm not sure how a message with the language "we're sorry" could be construed as a cavalier non-apology. Explaining the... more » | Other threads

  • We Read Twitter So Sheryl Sandberg Doesn't Have To

    South Park power outage frees workers from Web 2.0

    The power is out in South Park, San Francisco's startup epicenter. Wired and Yahoo Brickhouse — in the same building — are affected. Caffe Centro is down. Jack Falstaff isn't answering the phone. Six Apart, a block away on Fourth Street, is up. Workers are roaming the neighborhood. Got any more data points? Send 'em in to tips@valleywag.com.
    08/21/08
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    By Paul Boutin

    Comment by Troll_2.0: Web 2.0 freedom, but never free from Troll 2.0 more » | Other threads

  • embargo breakers

    Blog about Six Apart's blog software unblogged

    How absurd: Six Apart, the blog-software maker which has helped so many bloggers overturn the staid, outdated conventions of journalism and PR, has tried to use an embargo to quash news of a software upgrade until 9 p.m. tonight. Mashable published the news earlier this morning, and then yanked its story. The software in question, Movable Type Pro, is an anodyne improvement, turning MT's existing commenter features into a social network. Why this news ought to be released in a coordinated fashion is beyond me; for that matter, why it's interesting is also beyond me, since Six Apart has been trying to get into the social-network business since its ill-fated purchase of LiveJournal in 2005. News.com, admirably, has kept its post online. Here's Mashable's now-unpublished report by writer Kristen Nicole: More »
    08/12/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by emnem: @MorrisIshbob: No one can hold a candle to Kara Swisher, Our Queen of Waaaaaaaaaay Too Many Words. I have to read... more » | Other threads

  • internet famous

    Journalists do it for the lulz

    The trolls will always be with us, because the Internet is full of insane sociopaths. Charming sociopaths, clever sociopaths, perhaps even magazine-profile-worthy sociopaths — but sociopaths all the same. Wired profiled a videogame-heavy set of Internet trolls in January. The New York Times Magazine hunted and nabbed bigger game this weekend — Jason Fortuny and the troll known as "Weev," who was photographed for the story (above). This photo in particular may draw fascinated stares. More »
    08/04/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by Jmcl: "Weev" has never worked for Technorati. more » | Other threads

  • valley spawn

    Mena Trott's future millions to fund daughter's therapy sessions

    In June, Six Apart's Mena Trott told a CBS reporter, on camera, that she thought her baby was ugly. "Babies that age are kind of meh," she said. "I mean, Penelope has always been cute in our eyes, but looking back at pictures we think 'this is cute?' Not throw-up ugly, but definitely not as cute as now." Her comments did not air, but she inexplicably posted them on her blog, where Penelope — who is actually very cute, as the above still shows — will surely read them years from now. Her husband Ben, who cofounded the blog-software maker, made it on TV with an appropriately fatherly statement: "We just actually feel that she is that cute." Ben, who's pretty cute himself, has always been the shyer one in the Trott family. But we're starting to think he might have the makings of a better spokesperson than the loose-lipped Mena. Ben's TV appearance: More »
    07/31/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by JadedScientist: My mother informed me that she announced to the entire horrified maternity ward staff that I was easily the ugliest... more » | Other threads

  • livejournal

    Social network's advisory-board election sparks talk of death threats

    An election to put a LiveJournal user on the company's advisory board ends today at 9 p.m. Pacific, and it looks like a user who goes by the handle legomymalfoy will walk away with the win. But in just a week since polls opened, the election has been mired by accusations of ballot stuffing, conflicts of interest, and multiple death threats. More »
    05/29/08
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    By Jackson West

    Comment by raincoaster: @Preppy Bastard: NAMBLA members on the board at Wikipedia? more » | Other threads

  • 10 best workspaces

    Rank tech's 10 best workspaces

    After reviewing our post "Tech's top 10 workspaces" commenter Dweezil complained that our choices were full of "to much modernism bullshit." Commenter Web2PointOhShit tore at everybody:
    Six Apart's offices seem pretty ordinary to me. Their meeting space is *tiny*. Googleplex's niceties are all about enticing their workers to stay at work longer — yeah, that's real HAWT!. Valleywag offices look like a dump to me.
    So, OK, not everybody goes for our taste in brick, exposed ceilings and Googley amenities. Let's find out who's in the minority. Below, vote for your favorites and help us rank tech's 10 best workspaces. More »
    05/13/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by webwebweb: just visited the UGO Networks offices in the east village, coooooooooooool. more » | Other threads

  • leaks

    Who's going to TechTalk Menorca, the Balearic boondoggle?

    Martin Varsavsky, the founder of Wi-Fi startup Fon, has concocted another excuse for Web 2.0's jet set to rack up frequent-flier miles and buy carbon offsets: It's called Menorca TechTalk, held on Varsavsky's ranch on the Mediterranean island this weekend. The website is password-protected, but Valleywag got a list of who's going. It's a curious mix of professional conference attendees, like Rapleaf's Auren Hoffman, Loïc Le Meur of Seesmic, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, and David Sifry of Technorati, mixed in with a few people who have day jobs. There are even Googlers on the list — and when have you known those lot to leave the protective bubble of Mountain View? Oddly, Jimmy Wales did not seem to make the cut, though his New York patroness, Louise Blouin MacBain, is listed. In the comments, sort the TechTalkers into your preferred categories. More »
    05/09/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by sggrf: is this a joke? any list that michael arrington, with his tiny blog, as the most successful makes me very... more » | Other threads

  • once you're lucky, twice you're good

    F is for Fitzpatrick, and "hookers and blow"

    LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick is a prankster, as evidenced by his Halloween costume last year, when the new Googler dressed up as Facebook to mock his coworkers' fears of the social network. I'm told that in Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, Sarah Lacy's new book about Web 2.0, there's an anecdote about Fitzpatrick submitting an expense report — successfully! — for "hookers and blow" when he worked at blog software startup Six Apart. That was likely a reference to the early days of LiveJournal, when users made ridiculous accusations that Fitzpatrick was spending money meant for servers and bandwidth on "hookers and blow." We'd love to hear more, but alas, Fitzpatrick only got 8 out of 294 pages, according to the book's index. Here's the page for "D" through "F": More »
    05/09/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by BobDope: The way to do this is a naming convention where your servers are named things like hookers and blow. more » | Other threads

  • cubicle culture

    Tech's top 10 workspaces

    What makes for an appealing workspace? The envelopes they leave in your mailbox every two weeks. But after that, it comes down to design and amenities. Also, we like windows and brick. Lots and lots of brick. After spending some time on Office Snapshots, we present the ten best-looking offices in tech, below. More »
    Feature Feature
    05/06/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson
  • 10 best workspaces

    Six Apart

    With high ceilings, lots of brick and a bicycle garage, Six Apart's offices never remind engineers that they're contributing to global warming by helping General Motors sell cars. (Photos by Stephen)
    05/06/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson
  • six apart

    Mena Trott revisits her lost youth on YouTube

    Is Six Apart cofounder Mena Trott already getting bored with the tribulations of new motherhood? She took a break from raising future superblogger Penelope Trott, who surely coded Movable Type templates in the womb, to create a video imagining what she would have done had YouTube been around when she was 16. Having met Mena, née Grabowski, when she was an actual teenager, I can say this for her skills as a self-documentarian: two thumbs up for accuracy.
    05/01/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by pdave: I *did* see Green Day play at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma... not sure if that makes me cool or... more » | Other threads

  • anil dash

    Six Apart executive fails to job-hop, follow other Silicon Valley rules

    What's wrong with Anil Dash? As of today, the New York blogger, Six Apart's vice president of evangelism, has been at the San Francisco-based blog-software company for five years. Dash, the company's first employee, is one of its largest individual shareholders, but he's mostly vested by now. Why stick around? In Silicon Valley, the custom is to job-hop, to continuously optimize one's career for maximum gains. In staying loyal to Six Apart cofounders Ben and Mena Trott, Dash is betraying one of the industry's unspoken rules. No wonder so many of the ruthless careerists who populate tech companies find him grating. The concept that one might be vested in something other than stock options is alien to them.
    04/23/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by blackpro: the Vox service totally rocks UNTIL you try to upload video & then ask for assistance. Support is terribly slow &... more » | Other threads

  • online advertising

    Six Apart consummates Apperceptive acquisition, fecund pair already preggers with yet another ad network

    As a part of a new "blogging services" strategy, blog software firm Six Apart has acquired social media applications builder Apperceptive and launched a new ad network. SAI questions whether the world needs another ad network. It doesn't. But we also wonder about Six Apart's timing. Why not launch the ad network during Ad:tech a week earlier? The Moscone Center crowd might have liked to lay some bets on some SXSW-style kickball action organized by publicly snarky, privately earnest Six Apart marketing guru Anil Dash. All we got were booth babes in fishnets.
    04/21/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson
  • mena trott

    Enabler of teenage girls' blogs officially no longer punk rock

    Six Apart cofounder Mena Trott turned 30 last September. But the new mom didn't become officially old until today. Welcome to adulthood, Mena. [Twitter]
    03/31/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by microserfin: LOL This is weak. more » | Other threads

  • exits

    Google, Blogger veteran Jason Shellen quits LiveJournal after three months

    LiveJournal, only months after Six Apart sold the blogging site to Russian Web firm Sup, has resumed its tradition of corporate drama. Jason Shellen, the company's VP of product management, just announced he'd left the company. I asked him if this had anything to do with the ruckus over LiveJournal's elimination of unpaid, advertising-free accounts. "No," said Shellen, who worked at Blogger and then Google after the search giant bought the blog startup. "In social media, you have to have a thick skin." What did Shellen in was the 10-hour time difference between Moscow, where Sup is headquartered, and LiveJournal's San Francisco office. More »
    03/26/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by systematickitten: "What did Shellen in was the 10-hour time difference between Moscow, where Sup is headquartered, and LiveJournal's San Francisco office." He... more » | Other threads

  • lj drama

    SUP's Anton Nosik introduces LiveJournal users to European "customer service"

    When SUP bought LiveJournal from SixApart, I'm sure the Russian company understood the financial details and the technological nuances, but I'm not sure it understood that the customer base is about one thing and one thing only — drama. At least, that's the impression I get from Anton Nosik in a recent interview with Izbrannoe, commenting on the March 12 move by the company to no longer offer free accounts (translated by russianswinga):
    They endlessly, during the entire existence of LJ promote initiatives, whose only purpouse is to bring harm to LJ, its founders, their goal is to criticize, destablilize and ruin our reputation.
    More charmingly honest observations from Nosik after the jump. More »
    03/20/08
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    By Jackson West

    Comment by Owen Thomas: @CumaeanSibyl: For that, I may just have to friend you. more » | Other threads

  • blogging for dollars

    Filthy rich Matt Mullenweg calls rival "dirty"

    Automattic, Matt Mullenweg's blog-tools startup, is readying an upgrade to its WordPress software this week. Anil Dash of Six Apart took the occasion to let WordPress users know they can upgrade to his company's Movable Type instead. It's a move straight out of Oracle's handbook. But Mullenweg freaked out, calling the post "desperate and dirty." Dash responded by charging Mullenweg with "slander." Some are under the delusion that this nerdfight is about software. It's not. It's about money. More »
    03/11/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by Joe Clark: Meanwhile, something you clearly don't approve of, Owen, is accuracy. more » | Other threads

  • athletic feats

    SXSW's a real kick

    Honestly, does anyone come to SXSW Interactive for work? There are just enough earnest Web-design panels to make it a plausible tax writeoff. Anil Dash of blog-software maker Six Apart gets it: For years, he's been organizing a kickball game in a park near the Austin Convention Center. Sadly, no fights broke out over his calls as umpire. More »
    03/08/08
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    By Owen Thomas
  • social networks

    Brad Fitzpatrick wants to know who your friends are

    Remember how NotchUp spammed us all alst week? Get ready for a lot more. Brad Fitzpatrick, the LiveJournal founder who noisily left Six Apart for Google last summer, has launched his first big project: a tool which identifies your friends across multiple social networks, so you can invite them all wherever you go. What this means: If you're sick of zombie bites on Facebook, you're going to hate the World Wide Web after Fitzpatrick gets done with it. But forget the spam issue: Am I the only one who thinks this is a terrible idea on principle? More »
    02/01/08
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by Carlos: Brad "dropped the ball on social networking" Fitzpatrick more » | Other threads

  • forecasts

    Valleywag's 25 predictions for 2008

    Valleywag is of course known for its dead-on accuracy, so our predictions for 2008 need no introduction. Inside, my 25 predictions (made without inside information) cover the futures of Facebook, Google, Digg, YouTube, Twitter, the Wall Street Journal, Apple, Yahoo, Gawker Media, AOL, Dell, LOLcats, the president, and more. More »
    Feature Feature
    12/22/07
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    By Nick Douglas
  • party report

    For LiveJournal, Six Aparting is such sweet sorrow

    Users of LiveJournal call it "defriending." As terrible as it sounds, defriending's not really that bad; it just means you're bored with someone and don't want to hear about their issues anymore. Or share yours with them. That, in essence, is what Six Apart, the San Francisco-based blog-software company, has decided to do with LiveJournal, the online community it acquired from Brad Fitzpatrick in 2005. Andrew Anker, Six Apart's vice president of chopping the company into little bits for convenient and lucrative disposition corporate development, orchestrated the sale of LiveJournal to Sup, a Russian media company which already runs a localized version of the site. With the sale, Anker and the rest of Six Apart's team are letting LiveJournal know, as gently as they can, that they're just not interested in its problems. More »
    12/04/07
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by Jeremy: @Owen Thomas: I get a nice shout out, though, for my Pink shirts, right? more » | Other threads

  • geek love

    What's Sup with Brad Fitzpatrick?

    Brad Fitzpatrick, the founder of LiveJournal, is a Silicon Valley archetype: The brilliant engineer and troubled young man. In noisily quitting Six Apart, the San Francisco-based software company which acquired his company two years ago, one of the reasons he gave was that he was tired of working on LiveJournal. Now Sup, the Russian company acquiring LiveJournal, has asked Fitzpatrick to join an advisory board meant to protect users' interests, and he's gladly agreed. Why the sudden change of mind? More »
    12/03/07
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by Grimmtooth: Noisy exit? You keep using that phrase. Let's get something clear here - Vallywag was the only venue "making noise"... more » | Other threads

  • valleywag calendar

    111 Minna mashup

    There's Irish coffee and spontaneous meetups to be had, but the place to be tonight is 111 Minna, which is hosting two (!) simultaneous events tonight. All in today's Valleywag Calendar. More »
    12/03/07
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    By Megan McCarthy

    Comment by waynelambright: LOL MMalone, you got me. more » | Other threads

  • livejournal

    Six Apart exiles its troublesome child to Russia

    Since acquiring LiveJournal in 2005, Six Apart has gotten little but grief from the blogging site. Now, at last, it's gotten some cash. The San Francisco-based blog-software company has sold LiveJournal to Sup, a Russian media concern. Ostensibly, the purchase of LiveJournal two years ago was meant to improve Six Apart's Web technology and accelerate its entry into ad-supported blog publishing. Instead? More »
    12/03/07
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by ooorrr: Dave, do you have info for us? Tell us what you know! more » | Other threads

  • social networks

    Six Apart is entering the build-your-own-social-network-that-no-one-will-care-about business with a new "community solution" for Movable Type, its popular weblog software. [Compiler]
    11/13/07
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    By Mary Jane Irwin
  • opensocial

    Another minute, another Google Gang member

    According to a source, blog-software company Six Apart has joined as another partner for Google's OpenSocial platform. For those of you keeping count at home, don't bother. The list is surely to grow as word gets out. Social network Friendster, for example, wasn't asked to join the Google Gang. The pioneering social network begged to be included after a story leaked on TechCrunch. Google's secrecy is making the whole "open" affair less than transparent, as different names leak to different reporters. Here's a list of media outlets and the OpenSocial partners they list. More »
    10/31/07
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by timlonghurst: I've created the closest to a complete list of OpenSocial launch partners that I have seen anywhere. The... more » | Other threads

  • web 2.0 to english

    Social networking for dummies

    WEB 2.0 SUMMIT — Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon, the nerdy duo working on programming standards for opening up social networks, are presenting a thoroughly less nerdy version of their usual presentation. I chatted with Fitzpatrick, now an engineer at Google, who said he realized he needed to dumb it down for the audience of people wealthy enough to afford the $3,595 ticket price at this conference. The simple metaphor they came up with to explain the problem of closed social networks? Instant messenger. "If Brad is on Yahoo and I'm on AOL, we still want to talk to each other," explains Recordon, who's now at Six Apart, Fitzpatrick's old company. The social graph? "Who my friends are," Recordon sums up. OAuth, the network-ID standard Recordon and Fitzpatrick are championing? "The valet key for the Web," says Fitzpatrick. I can just hear the rich guys in the audience thinking, "Great, kid. Go park my car already." (Photo by CottonCandy)
    10/19/07
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    By Owen Thomas
  • web 2.0 summit

    Scenes from a conference

    At last, I understand the vision of synergy between News Corp. and Dow Jones. It's all about Kara Swisher, basically. The abrasive, pint-sized reporter-turned blogger spent dinner at Web 2.0 Summit locked in conversation with gregarious, pint-sized megamogul Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.'s CEO, and, come December, Swisher's boss. Swisher, of course, has been blogging hot and heavy on AllThingsD about Facebook, MySpace's chief rival. She's just the starting point. News Corp. is so vast that next year, it could easily assign an army of Wall Street Journal reporters just to cover itself. Check out the photos for Swisher's encounter with Murdoch, and more. More »
    Feature Feature
    10/18/07
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    By Owen Thomas
  • dynasties

    Six Apart founders' heir presumptive

    Who is Penelope Trott? According to a Twitter sent by Six Apart executive Anil Dash, a close confidante of Ben and Mena Trott, the founders of the blog-software company, she's made him "smile all day." We can only guess that Penelope is the name of the Trotts' long-expected offspring. If so, congratulations. We await the day when Mena and Ben bring their daughter to work and declare, "Some day, all of this will be yours. Well, except for the parts we sold off to our venture capitalists."
    10/10/07
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    By Owen Thomas

    Comment by Megan McCarthy: Confirmed! Penelope Trott was born this morning, according to a spokesperson at Six Apart, who adds that mother and baby... more » | Other threads

  • rumormonger

    Six Apart considered a LiveJournal and Vox spinoff

    We just heard an outlandish rumor: That San Francisco-based blogging company Six Apart, whose software powers many of the world's most popular blogs, considered splitting in two earlier this year, under former CEO Barak Berkowitz. But the company recently upgraded its CEO, replacing Berkowitz with executive Chris Alden, and a spinoff or sale is no longer on the table. By shedding its LiveJournal and Vox consumer blogging sites, Six Apart would have left behind enterprise blog service TypePad and the Movable Type software product — exactly the businesses new CEO Chris Alden ran before his promotion, which is likely why this old rumor is gaining fresh circulation. More »
    10/02/07
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