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It's only been a few days since the launch of the iPhone App Store, but the verdict is in: Bloggers are loving the new TypePad for iPhone application. We've seen a massive number of TypePad members download the new application for their iPod touch or iPhone, and just as exciting is seeing an influx of new members who finally gave TypePad a try because of the application. If you've got an iPhone or iPod touch and haven't given it a try yet yourself, just download it for free on the App Store. As we mentioned when it was first announced at the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference, TypePad for iPhone lets unleash your creativity from wherever you are: Create posts, upload photos, even resize images taken on your camera. And your posts appear instantly on your TypePad blog (and optionally on Twitter as well) as soon as you're done. You can see it in action in this video clip from the WWDC conference. But, while we're proud of the success of this new application, you don't have to take our word for it. Take a look at just some of the early press reaction: AppleInsider lists TypePad amongst its Best of the App Store: "As the only full-scale blogging app on launch, TypePad (free) is almost a category of its own but is nonetheless notable for just how complete it is."Longtime TypePad member Mike Wendland of the Detroit Free Press weighs in: "I downloaded a free program for Typepad, the popular blogging platform from Six Apart. It writes, posts copy and pictures and updates the blog I set up like I was at my main computer."In its own inimitable style, Valleywag lists the new TypePad app as one of the 10 iPhone apps that will drive you into Steve Jobs's clutches.Eric Benderoff at the Chicago Tribune offers his assessment: "I prefer the Web App for the Typepad blogging software because it allows me to manage -- track where the readers are coming from or approve comments, for example -- the Eric 2.0 blog."And finally, Scott McNulty, who's been using TypePad for years, offers a detailed first look on The Unofficial Apple Weblog: I'm a big fan of the service ... and that's why I was very excited to see TypePad was coming out with an iPhone native blogging app."We're just as excited to see what you think of the application, of course. So do let us know: Post about your experiences on your TypePad blog, or let us know via Twitter. (You do follow the Six Apart account on Twitter, don't you?) That's just as easy to do, because TypePad for iPhone supports posting to TypePad and Twitter at the same time. And a tip: One of the new features for iPhone and iPod touch is really handy if you want to write about an application -- just hold down the power button and the Home button to take a screenshot, which shows up as a regular image on your device. Best of all, TypePad for iPhone joins a whole family of mobile applications for TypePad. There's a powerful iPhone web interface for TypePad, which includes a ton of cool features like statistics and comment management. And just like the iPhone app, they're all free for TypePad members, they're all among the first full-featured blogging applications on their platforms, and they're all exclusive benefits of being a TypePad member. Better Mobile Blogging for EveryoneWe haven't forgotten that some of our most loved bloggers are on Movable Type and Vox, and that we have an obligation to all bloggers to make it as easy as possible to share your ideas with the world. So there are some great iPhone options for these bloggers, too: For Movable Type, the free iMT plugin gives you a full-featured interface for updating and managing your Movable Type blogs, including the ability to review comments, entries, and more. You can also use the free Blog It, powered by TypePad, to easily update your MT blog while updating other services like Twitter or Facebook as well. (These options work perfectly with Movable Type 4.2, which is now in the Release Candidate stage of testing.)For Vox members, you can just sign in to Blog It on your iPhone and post to your Vox blog with just a few taps.For everybody else, Blog It's a good option as well. The TypePad-powered service works with popular blogging tools like Blogger, LiveJournal, and WordPress.While, honestly, it's a little bit of a thrill for all of us at Six Apart to go to the Apple homepage and see a little TypePad logo tucked away on one of the screenshots, it's much more exciting to realize that a whole new mobile audience is about to discover the power of blogging. We hope you'll give TypePad for iPhone a try, and we're excited that, once again, TypePad members are getting the coolest new features first.

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Dealing with different generations in the workplace--Radio Agers, Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y; review of BlogIt Typepad app. Email shamelesscomments@gmail.com, call 206-309-0806 and visit the blog at Talk It Up!

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Ever since Ben and Mena Trott created Movable Type together so that Mena could blog and build a community, Six Apart has been about helping to get more people blogging. In order to do this we must produce optimized user experiences that take cutting edge technology and make it more accessible. We've been fortunate enough be recognized for our efforts in innovation and today we're introducing a free web application, Blog It for iPhone Powered by TypePad. Built specifically for iPhone's Safari browser, Blog It for iPhone enables you to post blog entries or status updates from wherever you are to more than a dozen different online services. Blog It for iPhone is essentially the mobile version of our Blog It for Facebook application, which we launched in April. We've been thrilled with the response to Blog It for Facebook (see this ReadWriteWeb post for an example!), and love seeing people use it to create content and share it all over the web. And we also love making it better -- in May we added support for MarkDown so you don't need to write HTML by hand; and in June we added support for FriendFeed and Jaiku, to bring the total list of services we support to thirteen. Blog It now supports creating content on Blogger, Facebook, FriendFeed, Jaiku, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, TypePad Vox, WordPress.com, and any WordPress.org site. Blog It: Free blogging to any platform, from any iPhoneThe Blog It for iPhone web application lets you post to your blog and update your status via one easy-to-use interface. Just like the original version for Facebook, you can choose to automatically share your post with people you know on various social networks. And Blog It for iPhone supports all the same services Blog It for Facebook does. To use Blog It for iPhone simply visit blogit.typepad.com from your iPhone or iPod Touch. It's so easy that you don't even need to create yet another account; we've integrated OpenID for login to Blog It for iPhone. Our designers worked hard to try to keep it simple so that even if you don't know what OpenID is you'll still be able to just login with your account from Yahoo!. This also means that once you've chosen to link your accounts together, all of your existing settings from Blog It for Facebook will automatically show up on your iPhone and any changes you make will be reflected no matter where you use Blog It. The Blog It for iPhone web application joins our existing iPhone-optimized TypePad site which we launched last year. TypePad bloggers can visit i.typepad.com from their iPhone to manage comment activity, create and publish simple blog posts and even check on site traffic statistics. To our beloved Movable Type users, we've heard you loud and clear: Blog It is a great way to post to Movable Type from your iPhone, or if you want even more features, you can check out the iMT plugin, which lets you manage your whole Movable Type blog from the device. To round out blogging support for the iPhone, a native iPhone application for TypePad will be available for free at the launch of the iPhone App Store. TypePad for iPhone enables bloggers to instantly post photos from their iPhone to their blogs and photo albums on TypePad. Michael Sippey, Six Apart's VP of Products, demonstrated this new app during the keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this week in San Francisco. Check out the video of the event; his demo starts at about the 30 minute mark. We're certainly excited about all of the great new things we can provide to bloggers because of the iPhone's great web browser and powerfully simple SDK for native applications. Below are some screenshots of the new free Blog It for iPhone web application, and you can access it from Safari on your iPhone at blogit.typepad.com.

At Six Apart, our mission is to help people communicate on the web, and we've always done this by making the best software and services that we can. But part of our larger goal is to help do what's right for the web, and today we're launching the latest initiative in that effort: TypePad AntiSpam. What's TypePad AntiSpam? A few short answers: A free, open source system powered by TypePad for blocking comment spam on any site, free no matter how many comments you get. A service for all bloggers, built into TypePad blogs already and implemented as a free plugin for users of platforms like Movable Type and WordPress. An open source engine which developers can use to create new antispam services, with customizable rules and logic. In beta! We're hearing great results from testers so far, but wanted to open up TypePad AntiSpam to a larger audience so we can make sure the system is getting as smart as possible. One of the reasons that we think TypePad AntiSpam is performing so well already is that its adaptive learning engine has been trained by millions of comments already. Every time any TypePad user reports a comment as junk, the system gets a little bit smarter and is even more ready to fight future spam attacks. The same goes for TrackBacks and Pingbacks. So, if you hate spam, you're probably wondering how to get TypePad AntiSpam. It's easy! TypePad AntiSpam is a free, automatic upgrade for TypePad users at any subscription level -- it's built in! You can read up on Everything TypePad to find out how this helps your TypePad blogs and be sure to check out the screencast. The service is included in the brand-new Movable Type 4.2 Release Candidate 1 and is available as a free plugin for any user of MT 3.3 or later. For users of other platforms, TypePad AntiSpam is a free plugin. Users of WordPress 2.3 and 2.5 can download the plugin for free, and other platforms can use our 100% Akismet API-compatible implementation to extend their existing antispam support to use this service. So, why are we releasing TypePad AntiSpam now? It all comes back to our mission, as stated above: We want to increase the quality of conversation on the web. At the highest level, we wanted to change the economics of blog spamming by introducing variety into the ecosystem. The more different implementations of spam-fighting technology that exist, the more complex and challenging (and expensive!) it becomes for spammers to keep attacking our communities. At the same time, we want to make sure our economic incentives at Six Apart as a business are aligned with the best interests of bloggers, so that we feel the pain and cost of spam just as you do. And we want to get these weapons in the fight against spammers into as many hands as possible. One of the earliest sites to deploy the new platform has been popular tech blog TechCrunch, which just offered up a review of TypePad AntiSpam from the site's founder, Michael Arrington:[L]ast week we switched to TypePad AntiSpam as a test, crossed our fingers and hoped for the best. After a week I'm pleased to say that as good as Akismet is, the TypePad product has performed as good or better for us. TypePad AntiSpam has learned from the platforms that came before: Automattic's team has created a dead-simple API for Akismet, and we're 100% compatible with their API. (As Dave Winer once said, "Invention here is hardly the issue. What matters is adoption and forward motion.") The smart work at Defensio has made it clear that bloggers want more competition in the antispam market. And years of work on SpamAssassin has shown the success of making an open source antispam engine that anyone can extend and customize to their own needs. But most important, we made TypePad AntiSpam so that you don't have to think about spam. So grab the plugin (or TypePad users, just keep on blogging) and join the fight against blog spam.

I love Ratatat. [Ratatat | YouTube | Mirando MP3]

On May 25 2008 (today) at approximately 7:53 p.m. EST (4:53 p.m. PST) the Phoenix Mars Lander will be landing on Mars! If everything proceeds according to plan, it will then start sending images and data back to Earth via one of two Mars orbiters and NASA s Deep Space Network. [Video about the landing | NASA]

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MARIO BASANOV VIDIS feat JAZZU - I ll be gone Music video Motion Graphics by KORB [Original Post | Video | MySpace | YouTube | via Jon]

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[high res version] Don Pettit assembled a sequence of several of the most striking images of city lights at night into an animated world tour of cities at night. This video, produced entirely by Pettit, takes you on a quick trip comparing cities from different regions, all viewed from the International Space Station. Here are some of the high res images: Tokyo, Japan Ciudad Juaréz, Mexico Chicago, Illinois Jiddah and Mecca, Saudi Arabia Denver, Colorado Ireland and the United Kingdom [Full story and more high res images heret | High Res Video 140 MB | YouTube]

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I thought this was pretty funny. [PMOG]

This screencast will show you the new post to blog feature available in ScreenSteps version 2.1. This feature lets you post ScreenSteps lessons directly to your WordPress, TypePad or Movable Type blog.

A few days ago, venerable web designer (and standards advocate) Jeffrey Zeldman posted "The vanishing personal site". Jeffrey lamented the fact that a lot of people who, in the past, might have made personal web sites are instead sharing their thoughts, ideas and creations on social networking sites that they don't control. His post inspired an important conversation across the blogosphere and in media like Wired, which asked the question, "Is the all-in-one personal website headed for extinction?" Our answer is: Hell no. Six Apart is a company founded in the rich tradition of personal sites on the web. Members of our team have been publishing personal sites continuously for a decade or more. We know that blogs have inherited the mantle of the personal website. We believe fundamentally in people controlling their own information online, and think this makes our platforms better for everyone from individuals to businesses.The promise, the greatest potential, of the web from its very beginning was that any of us could share and connect with friends, family, coworkers, colleagues or strangers around the world using websites and tools that we own and control ourselves. We love social networking sites. We think they let us do great things. So we've spent years inventing the technology that lets any of us fully participate in social networking sites while still having full control of our information on today's personal sites. And today, we call these ultimate personal sites blogs. This isn't just about aggregation. This is about smart, two-way connections between blogs as independent personal sites and the entire universe of social networking sites. It's an idea that's been referred to by many names, including "unified social networking", but it's a vision that's shared by any of us who have experienced that signature first moment of realization about a website: "I could make one of these!" Connecting your blog to everything you do around the webThis isn't just some philosophical discussion -- we've already launched a number of projects to fulfill this vision of new, smarter personal sites that understand the world of social software. And the reality is, your friends are only going to belong to more and more social networks; The most popular networking sites change every year, but the fact that there are increasing numbers of networks doesn't. So here's what we've done to make it all manageable, and to let you use all of these sites while still having your data and your activity live on your own personal site. Action Streams: This system, first available as a completely free and open source Movable Type plugin, lets you aggregate your activity from over 50 social sites across the web. And it's easy to add new services, so when community members wanted to import TripIt journeys or Fire Eagle locations or Amazon wishlists, they just get plugged into the system.Blog It: Blog It is a free Facebook application that posts to your blog or microblogging service, keeping all your networks in sync. And when we say "your blog", we don't just mean our platforms -- Blog It, while powered by TypePad, works with Blogger and WordPress and Twitter and Pownce, in addition to Movable Type and TypePad and Vox. But a picture's worth a thousand words: Check out the Blog It introduction video to see for yourself.Opening the Social Graph: One key aspect of controlling your social networking behavior on your own site is that you have to be able to declare and manage your relationships on your own site. We've worked with the entire community to enable this kind of data sharing while preventing any ugly surprises that can happen when you inadvertently reveal relationship information you didn't intend to share. That's been a consistent theme ever since we were the only partner to provide a completely opt-in implementation of Facebook's "Beacon".Profiles Elsewhere: Every one of our platforms, from Movable Type to TypePad to Vox, has the simple but essential ability to publish links to a list of your profiles on other services. It's easy to take these little bits of connection for granted, but expressing those relationships in a format that web software can understand sets the groundwork for future innovations. And it takes a big step towards your personal site being the place that people go first to find you online, instead of a social networking site you don't control.OpenID: We invented OpenID at Six Apart with the fundamental concept is that your web address is part of your identity, just like an email address. It's a point that's obvious to any of us who use our personal web sites on our business cards (or Moo cards!) to tell people who we are, but OpenID takes that concept and bakes it into the technological underpinnings of the web. And every one of our platforms has OpenID built-in, with more and better support to come in the future.OAuth: This is sort of the software-focused counterpart to OpenID, based on the idea that smart services should automatically integrate into your blogging platform. Vox has done this since it was created -- you can insert Flickr photos or YouTube videos as easily as if they were built directly into Vox itself. And all of this is done with the idea that you shouldn't have to share your password just to share your ideas.Of course, there's a lot more to come. All of these technologies are available today and are generally free and open source. Most importantly, all of this work speaks to our belief that our innovations should support independent personal web sites, and should honor the tradition of creative individuals being able to fully participate in the web while still retaining complete control and ownership over their ideas and information. But there's a lot more to do: New networks are popping up every day, and we need to invent ways for us to have even more control over the neverending competition for our attention. There are a whole set of new challenges that we couldn't have imagined in the days when personal sites seemed like the simple and obvious way to have a presence online. The chanegs since then, though, highlight an important new opportunity: Personal websites aren't vanishing, they're evolving. We simply won't let something so important and essential to the web disappear.

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Clay Shirky: I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she s going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn t what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, What you doing? And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, Looking for the mouse. Here s something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here s something four-year-olds know: Media that s targeted at you but doesn t include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won t have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan s Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing. [Blip.tv (mp4) | Clay Shirky | Web 2.0 Expo via Waxy]

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