Brad Hill has a piece on the RSS Weblog about Yahoo's partnership with Six Apart. Seems Moveable Type will now become the de facto standard tool for blogging if you're a small business customer with Yahoo. This doesn't appear to affect users of Yahoo's Yahoo!360 tools, which is a very simple yet powerful tool for beginner bloggers. There also doesn't seem to be any news of a buyout, or if Yahoo is going to implement TypePad or do anything with LiveJournal.

Of course, a simple business blog site is one of many small biz services Yahoo offers. Earlier this year I started a small business using Yahoo's e-commerce solution. To begin a dialogue with customers, I also started a blog, but used competitor Google's Blogger service. I didn't even know Yahoo had a business blog product (maybe they didn't at the time), but I'd probably prefer to use Moveable Type myself.