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04/26/2005
Google was testing new RSS Adsense in Longhornblogs., the feed works fine in both RSS reader and Blogline’s services. I was wondering that How Bloglines’s RSS advertising business to compete with Adsense? Even if they didn’t launch it yet.
With site-targeted advertising, advertisers set a maximum CPM bid - that is, the price they are willing to pay for every thousand impressions - and pay on a per-impression basis. This means that, unlike pay-per-click ads, you’ll earn revenue each time a CPM ad is displayed on your site. For every eligible impression, both pay-per-impression ads and pay-per-click ads compete in the same auction. Our technology will automatically display the highest performing ads on your pages.
Because of these new features available for advertisers, the number of image ads in the Google advertising network will grow. To take advantage of these ads, and the increased earnings potential that they offer, we encourage you to review your image ads preference in your AdSense Account Settings page.
You can also choose your image ads preference on a format-by-format basis when generating your ad code. For publishers who want to fully leverage image ads, we now provide an image ads only selection.
[Via chris Pirillo]
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04/23/2005
From Tony Perkins’ hardcopy report AlwaysOn, the blogazine of innovation, in which he discusses Bill Gates comments on blogging during a private dinner at Gates home on Lake Washington.
“Blogging makes it very easy to communicate. It gets away from drawbacks of email and the drawbacks of a website. Eventually, most businesses will use blogs to communicate with customers, suppliers and employees, because it’s two-way and more satisfying.”
And Tony add
“Gates knows that the referral power of the blogosphere is also exploding and marketing and PR executives must embrace this reality or risk losing control of their messages.”
Via Red Couch
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01/25/2005
These days, blogosphere talks about Folksonomy, Technorati tags and social software services all the time, it's really sparkle. and it makes me started writing of these trends on my Chinese blog. I had spent some time thinking of using a creative way to implement this terrific tag system in our real life!
Technorati's tag system aggregate contents from three sources, individual blog posts come from over 5M blogs which technorati are tracking at. del.icio.us - a social bookmarking system and Flickr - a photo sharing community.
Then I got the idea when I was standing behind the Starbucks with holding a cup of coffee: "10 Places of My City". By using Technorati tag system to encourage bloggers to showcase the top 10 places of their own city (Thanks Andrea first defined this movement in english for me).
Everyone lives in their own city have some favorite places, these kind of places maybe not a famous sight, likely a coffee shop, a library, a park or even a grocery store (I know someone really enjoyed grocery shopping). The idea was really simple: share your 10 favorite places in your blog, embed Technorati tags "10placesofmycity", if there are any pictures show up these places, upload them to flickr by tagging as "10placesofmycity", and even more, any links related to your favorite places, collect them to "10placesofmycity" in del.icio.us.
Actually the idea continues from the weciti concpt, a Chinese group/community blog focus on writing the best of localities which we launched a year ago. Blog in China is not very popular at that time, a few of pioneer Chinese bloggers joined this community to share their localities and activities. All of us are really enjoyed this blogging experience, we had initialed the first 2003 Chinese blog award base on this community, cooperate with other blog communities, such as Cnblog.org, Living in China and other major Chinese Blog service providers.
Everything is going smoothly, more and more bloggers joined with great blogging posts. The community had some interviews with media, newspaper, even create a column on a Local City Magazine. But the community suffered a serious disaster, the web hosting server had a hard-drive fail, that most of our works and posts were gone. we were keep sending our requests for their backup, but no answers, couple weeks later, the hosting company run a way out of business and we lost everything. Sounds really sucks, right! Like some old stories, we had start over again, invite people, create new sites, but even ourself were getting lost our passions. then the community somehow never back again.
Review of this story, I figure out some points why our first attempt to build up a community blog was failured. First, there's not enough devoted people constantly working and tracking on the project, Bloggers who has been invited to author group more intent to write on their own blog rather than a community blog, most of time, it's a copy-paste reactions. also we were sufferring the loose of organize, this kind of interacctive style works fine with individual bloggers but not for a community. Again, there few tools can be used at that time, for some bloggers with technical backgrounds, MovableType is powerful enough to get things well done. but for most of common bloggers, who even thinks that set up a single web page is tough works may not interest to learn how to use MT or HTML. More important, most of the help guide and information and English, not Chinese.
After year of tremendous progress on Blogosphere and Social Software, Web services like del.icio.us, flickr, TypePad is providing diversify functions which makes Blogger's online social experience becomes more easier and user-friendly. Users can share photos by flickr, exchange links by del.icio.us, build and publish blogs by powerful platform or Blog service providers. and then, Technorati tags with folksonomy trends makes thing even more sweet.
All of these above makes "10 Places of My city" to be easy adopted by individual bloggers. Three days after initialed this idea, over 20 Chinese blogger from all over the world joined and blogged "10 places of my city". It's really interesting to see that some of them are living in the same city, sharing their favorite places with intersections. Look at the 10placesofmycity on Technorati, bloggers come from different major cities in China such as Beijng, Shanghai, Chengdu, Xi'an, Wuhan, Xiamen etc, were sharing local experiences. Some of them wrote as a love story with emotional sense, reviewed most sweet places in their memory. I saw a blogger's post marked his 10 places with growing history, from childhood playground to modern office. I'm sure that more interesting post will keep coming in the next couple days.
I invited Carol who is a popular female blogger in taiwan to help me separate the idea to Taiwan blogosphere, huge reactions were breeding on her blog, Certainly, I got the right connectors! I joked with her that whether we could collect all of these local information to print out a Taipei traveler guide for bloggers. quawn who is a talent web designer, and host a blog community oui-blog.com was kindly design a LOGO for this movement.
Also, there's another thing makes me so excited, watch out the collection of "10 places of my city", it seems that Chinese bloggers from all over the world are getting involved. they are locate in different countries, from Asia to North America. Two of my favorite bloggers in Japan had blogged Tokyo and Kagoshima. and I discovered more in United States, Boston, Bay Area, Ann Arbor and Milwaukee. Surprisingly, I received a comment from Gloria today, She is a blogger also lived in Dallas, Texas and even point out that my favorite coffee shop it's really close to her house. What a amazing blogging experience!
I still remember last Nov, Dan Gillmore visit Shanghai, after meet with Isaac and other Chinese Bloggers, he said that China Blogger's Emerge, But Not Too Loudly. I believes that things are going to be changed and more and more China blogger voices will come up to the stage. Last Dec in Harvard Beckman Center, through the Internet and Society Conference, Attendees create a project called "Globe Voice", the collaborative project focused on Globe free speech and communications. I'd think It's the good way to use Technorati Tag system separate the idea of Globe Voice.
Sorry for English readers that most of Bloggers blogged their "10 Places of My City" in Chinese. Sigh! no matter how big the voice is, the language barrier still exists.
Technorati Tags: China, 10placesofmycity
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10/26/2004
There are some existing methods to integrate del.icio.us links with Movable Type Blog. Like use a third-party RSS feed tool to pull up a link list by insert a javascript to MT template or use a perl script to grab del.icio.us feed to a blog. I'd prefer Jeff Veen's way to automatically create a daily post from del.icio.us, this one need some coding works and may not fit for all hosting service. Joshua (who is inventor of del.icio.us) had released a small tool, it makes thing really simple to post a daily entry to MT through del.icio.us API. All you have to do is follow these simple instruction below:
First go to: http://del.icio.us/settings/$USERNAME/daily Change $USERNAME to your del.icio.us username. then add a new thingy, follow the description:
job_name is a name for the posting thingy
out_name is the login name for the site
out_pass is the password for the site
out_url is the xmlrpc url, probably like mt-xmlrpc.cgi
out_time is the GMT hour to post on, 0-23.
out_blog_id is the blog id #
out_cat_id is the optional category id #
That's it, del.icio.us will post daily link to your MT blog, and this tool works with blogger.com API too.
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06/16/2004
Today Six apart announced their new pricing for Movable Type, the most effective changes are in personal edition.
Free edition allows one author and three blogs, and the paid personal edition allow three authors and unlimited blogs. and there is a unlimited personal edition which offered unlimited author and blogs, the price is $99 which I think are making more sense than the old pricing. It seems not bad for Chinese Blogger who are using MT system, the free edition still allow users to create at most three blogs. Although the Author limitation still effect some bloggers to make decision for upgrade to 3.0, but for most of existing individual users, this offer should fill their needs mostly.
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04/23/2004
Patrick kindly invites me to join a China-Focused Blogger meetup during CDF conference. The China Digital Future conference host by UC Berkeley journalism school on Friday and Saturday, April 30 and May 1st. I talk about this kind of meetup with Andrea (from Livinginchina.com) couple weeks ago. It's a great opportunity for China-Focused blogger meetup together in San Fran bay area. Especially some well-known Blogger will attend this conference. Probably we could invite more Bloggers in San Fran who are interesting in this meetup. Base on my information, I'd like to post a list of Bloggers who I know likely will be in this meetup.
Patrick Delaney, Fons Tunistra, Mindy Chiang, Kevin Wen, Isaac Mao, Robert Mao, Liang Lu,Andrea Leung
Update: Phil Wolff
Also looking forward:
Xiao Qiang, Dan Gilmour
more bloggers ongoing. Meetup probably in Satuday night May 1st. I'd like Patrick to choose a place for host this meetup. with Good food even better.
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04/22/2004
Here is the abstract of our speech in this coming CDF conference in UC berkeley. I'm still working on the PPT file.
Abstract
The blogging concept was first introduced in China in 2002. It grew rapidly and became popular in merely one year. In 2003, Social Networking and related applications started to surface in China. There are more than 300,000 people who are actively involved in Blogging and Social Networking sites. These new methods of self-expression and communication have started a new Internet trend in China. People are publishing their thoughts and experiences on Blog sites. Social Networking tools help them to establish new connections and enhance existing friendships.
Currently, blogging service providers are seeking new opportunities to commercialize their businesses. At the same time, they are adjusting their strategy to comply with evolving government regulations on Internet usage. Social Networking service providers are striving to find a profitable business model. What if we combine these two seemingly separate but yet fundamentally related concepts?
Blogging and Social Networking complement each other. Their value can potentially be multiplied through integration. Blogging improves the interaction of Social Networking users. Blogger communities become tighter and stronger via Social Networking. Naturally, this new breed of collaboration and communication application evolves into a personal portal.
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04/ 7/2004
Channel 9 was created by a group of engineers and "technology evangelists" at Microsoft that is convinced the software giant could do more to promote free discussion with outside developers. The name refers to the audio channel most airlines use to allow passengers to listen in on conversations between flight crew members. via news.com
Microsoft's developers launched
Channel 9 not only include video and audio content publish, also provide Wiki, Moblog, Forum etc. Pretty impressive. The name "Channel 9" inspired from Airline communication mechanism, on the audio track in airplanes, is the chatter between the pilot, co-pilot and control tower. This project initiate form MS's engineer Jeff and Scoble, they go around Microsoft campus with a video camera and do quick hallway interviews with people who are doing interesting stuff at MS and then post those clips on Channel 9. Actually many Microsoft employees are active Bloggers, it seems Microsoft to be a pretty open company, but the practice has gotten at least one worker in trouble. Longtime contract worker
Michael Hanscom was fired last year after his blog ran photos of Apple computers being delivered to Microsoft's main campus. Anyway, the "Channel 9" project would be a good example for employee interactive lives in giant company. No matter how people hate Microsoft, people who have a chance work on there still attractive.
Related Post:
Blogs Ahoy at Microsoft - Cult of Mac
Channel 9 - Scripting News
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Leander Kahney's blog Cult Of Mac Launched today. It's the second Wired Blog after Burce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond. I searched "Cult of Mac" via google, and find out actually Cult of Mac is Leander's new book will be released on Sep 2004.
Leander Kahney
is a journalist who covers Apple and the Mac community for Wired News. Before joining Wired, he was a senior writer at MacWeek. He has written for numerous publications, including Wired Magazine, Scientific American, and the London Guardian.
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04/ 2/2004
Living In China will host a BloggerCon meeting in shanghai at 17 April, it's coinciding with BloggerCon II conference at Harvard Law school in April. LiC is a active community weblog organized by some foreigner blogger who currently lived in China. I have some good experience cooperate with LiC team. espeically they collaborate with Weciti and CNblog.org to host the first China blog award.
I don't have a chance to join this fantanstic meeting, wish attendees have a great time on it. If you are a blogger and live in Shanghai vicinity, you won't miss this chance to join the party! Please remember make sure there 30 RMB in your pokets if you wanna some beer. :)
Living In China
BloggerCon Shanghai Meeting is a joint initiative of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club, Living in China and Fons Tuinstra of China Herald, with the support of BloggerCon. For further information, please email bloggercon@livinginchina.com.
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04/ 1/2004
I got an excellent birthday gift from my dad: a Nokia 6600 smart phone. This phone currently is not available in US market. Also, he brought me a Bluetooth headphone which is an offical accessories for 6600. Wow, I can't wait to set it up.
I am using T-mobile wireless service right now which provided GSM network. It works with Tri-band and SIM card, its mean if a phone includes tri-band and SIM card slot, the only thing you need to do is put the SIM card into the phone and turn it on. It will work mostly. But if a smart phone you want to use with powerful function like online surfing, mobblogging etc. There's more configuration should be set it up. I had done some research and finally figure it out how to set 6600 for T-mobile network. If anyone has a chance to get this phone and also use T-Mobile service. You probably could follow configuration below to set it up, it's worked perfectly with my moblog.
PS: Absolutely, This is not a April fool's day joke! :)
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01/ 3/2004
Are You A Blogaholic?, Don't hesitate to take this test and find out your blogaholic potential.
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01/ 2/2004
Living in the Blog-osphere is a very old article post in Newsweek on Aug 19th 2002, It was influencing the whole blogoshpere.
"In the future, everyone will be famous to 15 people on the Web,"
This is a well-konw words said by
David Weinberger . He is the editor of
JOHO (Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization), and his great work for the book
Cluetrain Manifesto with
Chris Locke and
Doc Searls.
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History Of RSS by Dan Libby. Good arcticle!
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12/31/2003
Intrducing you all the best desifn Blogs, wow! Look at these intelligence Design, my works seems like a baby.
Blog Desinf Shoecase
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12/30/2003
I was going to be a photoblogger before I start my blogging life, then i bought a Cannon G5 digital Camera.
At the first couple days, I was very enjoyed my photography experience. I took my camera with me everywhere, shot whole batch of pictures: landscape, animal, human portrait etc. But finally I realized I don't have that talent to be a photographer. Then I quit to concentrate in write my blog not shot my blog. So far I think I made a not bad decision.
My poor camera was sitting in the dark, exposing in the dust. Probably I should sell it on Ebay some time. But I was still interested in photoblogs. I was enjoied "The Best of Photoblogs 2003", those wonderful blog made me jealous so much. Thus, I am going to build up my own photoblog even if with my poor photography skill and indigent art sense.
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12/29/2003
Blogger Knowledge base has a tutorial about How To Give The Last-Minute Gift of Blog. Although Christmas already passed, I still has chance made a New year gift for my blogger friends.!
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Smart mobs wins the Online Cultural Coverage award. Award Link. All winner are very impressive site gives us most valuable information. Via BoingBoing
Here is overview of Winner Smart Mobs
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I know a famous IBM project Grid Computing. How about Grid Blogging! Via Radio Free Blogistan
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11/24/2003
Oskar create a RSS information link, Provide detail information about RSS.
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11/20/2003
My friend Isaac was begining a english blogging. He is collecting information to his Meta blog. Great!
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10/30/2003
all buttons are collected on STEAL THESE BOTTONS. It's a nice resources for blog or web designer.
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10/29/2003
How to make a comment rss feed (via Phil ringnalda dot com
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10/27/2003
FeedDemon 1.0 RC2 was release today in Nick's blog.
Nick show us a way to posting to MT from FeedDemon. and after that Glenn Slaven has find out a tip posting to Typepad from FeedDemon! Great tips.
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10/23/2003
Blog on. The lastest interview with Evan Williams who is the co-founder and CEO of pyra, the company behind Blogger
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10/20/2003
RSS 2.0 Standard from Technology at Harvard Law.
also here is a interesting site RSSJobs, en? Is this the next generation Monster?
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10/14/2003
Comment Spam becomes to a serious problem. A lot of popular blog sites are suffered with them. Brainstorms and Raves also suffered from the spam comments. Fortunately, Bloggers realized this disgusting problem more and more. Some of them are working on it try to find out a solution. Six Apart has a post today talking about this infection. Jay Allen also released a MT-Blacklist plugin for MT user
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10/12/2003
So far, I know a blog name is chinaweblog, and I also metioned a movable type resource weblog "movableblog". But what was suprised me is that both two blogs are created by Richard Eriksson. He is oversea student in china come from Canada! So amazing, maybe i got this info too later. :(
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James Farmer has a article in education with weblog.
The Potential of Personal Publishing in Education
I: What?s doing & who?s doing it?
II: How?s it going & what?s working?
Stephen Downes write some comment about James's article
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10/ 9/2003
Apples iBlog! Looks pretty decent! (via Blogroots)
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Oliver Willis thinks so: "...a technology that is mostly the pursuit of upper middle class white males does diddly to change the real world. I'm a geek through-and-thorough but when I hear tooth gnashing about issues like copyright as if they were the most important issue in the world - it tells me that the blog world is somewhat out of touch." Can weblogs heal themselves by including more people, or will blogging continue to be the pursuit of a privileged few?
From blogroots
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10/ 8/2003
Nick post a weblog class planing in a comments. Excellent weblogs information aggregation. I am going to make them to a individual webpage.
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10/ 7/2003
OK, the site name gives me a intuitionistic impression. meet-the-makers, that's mean meet creative people in a technical world. The first one i saw on their conversation is Jeffrey Zeldman, a great web designer. and his Jeffrey Zeldman's Daily Report is the most popular destination for web designer.
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There are whole batch logo for Love RSS made by Bryan
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The bush/cheney campaign has created it's official blog, but you can't not deliver you opinion over there just beacuse these no comment function. From Democrats.org
Also a shaking news will pop up tonight. Californians are voting to decide who will govern the richest and most populous US state for the next three years. Does Arnold will win in this vote? BBC News. here is a other voice from Scriptingnews
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10/ 6/2003
USA Today: Worker blogs raise some company concerns
As a blogger, we should clear the base line on our writting in blog. as a company, Some concern is necessary for protect confidential information.
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My friend hedong do a particular learning report in bloggerAPI, here is a link to his research
Reference
XML-RPC
MetaWeblog API
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10/ 5/2003
BloggerCon is a conference about weblogs on October 4 and 5 on the campus of Harvard Law School.
Here are some photos about Bloggercon 2003 conference from Dan Bricklin
Conference note by Heath, admire his typing speed.
Joi's joined conference and here is rough transcript of his talk
Audioblogging At BloggerCon provide by Harold Gilchrist
Also we can enjoy feeds anytime in this conference at bloggercon.localfeeds.com
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09/30/2003
Blog could be bad for Business! I see this opinion from Guardian today. These days we are talking about blog for business alot, try to find a way let blog could do something on business field. but why blog could be bad for business? This is a really a instresting point for me to think about it.
Why blogs could be bad for business from Guardian, writes Neil McIntosh
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09/29/2003
How weblog can apply to business area? Some ideas come up to us like weblogs Inc,. Our Snap City Group discuss this alot, but most of thoughts are still stay on the talking words, No one Does the reaction on the real-life.
The intrepid Pointblog interviews Weblogs, Inc. CEO Brian Alvey about the business-to-business blogging start-up Translate from French
English Ver. from blogalization
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Xiuli introduced this article in CNBLOG. She said this is a really good question ask for all of bloggers! It's shallow to say Blog is a personal web-based diary? absolutely not! Blog will change our life and leaning style.
Article From 在线教育资讯 ：Blog究竟能怎样利用？一个理念，而非产品 There are some points from author.
1.运用xml、RSS，能及时的ping出自己的更新信息。信息的自动汇总与即时播报更新，提高效率。
2.它比个人主页简单、比BBS更直观，不需要自己去申请空间安装，而且能不需要Banner、Logo的直接宣传在整个WWW（在有服务商提供的前提下）
因此，提取出blog这种理念真正的特色内涵才是利用此工作的重心——请注意，Blog不是一种产品，而是一种理念！
Refer Article weblogs: a history and perspective
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The Webby Awards works year-round to identify the best of the Web. Examining the many sites visited daily for information, entertainment and the best business practices online, we help daily users and business professionals make the most of their time and investment online.
Webby award 2003 was announced, These sites are the best of web both in quality and quantity.
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09/12/2003
A weblog essays from rebecca's pocket
This is a fully introduction of weblog's history, give me a overall concept of weblog function and related technology.
weblogs: a history and perspective.
Link from anil dash's weblog. He is a vice president of Business Development ar Six Apart. As all I know, Six Apart is the company behind the Typepad weblog publishing service and Movable Type weblog publishing system. He is also a member of the Web Standards Project's Steering Committee.
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