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Acquia: Commercially supported Drupal

by Christina Warren Sep 30th 2008



When it comes to choosing a content management system (CMS), the open-source Drupal is often a great choice for large or content-rich sites, because it scales well, supports multiple authors and is thoroughly customizable. The downside of all of this power is that for new users especially, the learning curve can be pretty steep. Although Drupal 6 was a huge step forward in overall usability, from a web admin perspective, it's still not exactly easy.

Acquia, a company founded by Drupal creator and project lead Dries Buytaert, has just launched Acquia Drupal, which packages Drupal and some of the most popular and highly rated community modules together and also offers commercial support. This is a big win for both Drupal and current and future Drupal users.

Acquia Drupal is a free GPL-licensed download. It contains the Drupal 6.x core (currently at 6.4), a bunch of community contributed modules, like Google Analytics, Mollom (Dries's spam-fighting content solution), and rating and image gallery tools. I installed Acquia Drupal on my local test server and also installed the latest Drupal release, 6.4. The install process was already easier with Acquia Drupal, because I didn't have to create a settings.php file in advance before filling in my database details. The additional modules also made for a nicer user interface (see screenshot) and contained an additional site theme.


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Tags: acquia, acquia-drupal, cms, drupal, expression engine, ExpressionEngine, movable type, MovableType, wordpress

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Filed under: Blogging, Productivity

Zemanta: it's like cruise control for blogging

by Jay Hathaway Jun 6th 2008

ZemantaIf you love writing, but hate the grunt work of blogging - like inserting relevant links, tags, and images, Zemanta might be for you. It's available as an add-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer, and a plug-in for Wordpress or Movable Type, and it automatically adds some useful stuff to your blog posts in progress on most of the major blogging platforms. It suggests links and applies them to the relevant words in your post with one click, and it also provides tags and a gallery of Creative-Commons-licensed Flickr photos you can drop in.

Zemanta currently supports Wordpress, Movable Type, LiveJournal, TypePad and Blogger, so the majority of blogs should be able to make use of it. It might be too blunt an instrument if you've got a really specific linking scheme going on at your blog, but for a post like this one, it came in handy: it automatically linked the word Zemanta to zemanta.com. Hey, we were going to do that by hand anyway. More importantly, it also grabs links to stories from places like CNN, the New York Times, and Technorati.

[via WebWare]

Tags: blog, blogging, firefox, LiveJournal, movable type, MovableType, plug-ins, typepad, wordpress, zemanta

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Filed under: Blogging, Social Software

Mashable compares MovableType 4 and WordPress 2.2 so you don't have to

by David Chartier Aug 17th 2007

For bloggers both old and new, a choice of blogging tool (or a switch) is a crucial step to make while building the empire. There are of course a boatload of choices, from Drupal, to Blogger and even the lightweight Textpattern, but for the serious blogger that needs every ounce of power and customizability from their platform of choice, WordPress and Movable Type are the reigning kings across the web. They're both very mature products, and while WordPress has been open source from the start, Movable Type recently joined that party as well with a vastly updated UI and a strong set of features straight out the gate. But how can you decide which one to chose without having to muck around with their respective PHP and MySQL configurations just to get started?

Fortunately, Mashable has published a general comparison of both platforms, ranking them in categories like ease of installation, usability and the all-important user community. We won't spoil the outcome though, because there are some great thoughts and tidbits about both platforms that can make or break the decision for some folks. You'll just have to head over and check out Mashable's comparison for yourself.

Tags: blogging, comparisons, Mashable, Movable Type, MovableType, WordPress

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Worlds most expensive blog template?

by Grant Robertson Jul 30th 2007

How much would you pay for a blog template? $49.95, $29.95? Or how about free with a little homegrown modification? That's what most of us would opt for. There is a market for pay templates, but we wonder quite seriously if there is a solid market for this one. This $4000 template for Movable Type is designed for an online newspaper, but frankly doesn't look so super special to us.

Sure, it's mostly black and white. Somewhat well formatted, and displays well in Kanji but, $4k US? What's the creator smoking and, if you don't mind us asking, where can we get some?

Tags: Blog templates, BlogTemplates, Movable Type, MovableType, ridiculous

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Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Open Source

Movable Type moving to Open Source

by Dolores Parker Jun 5th 2007


Six Apart, the company behind Movable Type, released Movable Type 4 (MT4) in beta today and announced it will create an open source version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform sometime this summer. Moving to open source will put MT4 in sync with its main competition, Wordpress, which is also open source.

Some new features include:
  • Updated user interface with a dashboard overview of all your blogs
  • Support for publishing standalone pages and managing file assets and images right within MT
  • Brand-new community features like OpenID, and a built-in user registration system
  • Increased speed
MT4 is available for download and is looking for user feedback prior to its official open source release. With over 50 new features from its previous MT 3.0 incarnation, Six Apart hopes to gain some of its former users who switched to other platforms in response to MT 3.0's licensing requirements and fees.

MT4 has the following requirements:
  • A standard web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x or higher, Apple Safari, Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox), and an FTP utility may be required.
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris/Unix, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows Server
  • Web Servers: Apache, Microsoft IIS, Netscape
  • Databases: MySQL 4.0 or greater, PostgreSQL, SQLite
MT4 is free for personal use and ranges from $200 - $750 for commercial use depending on the number of users. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Thanks FF!


Tags: blogging platform, BloggingPlatform, movable type, movable type open source project, MovableType, MovableTypeOpenSourceProject, open source, OpenSource, professional bloggin, ProfessionalBloggin, six apart, SixApart, wordpress

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Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Internet, Blogging, Web services, Social Software

SuiteTwo, Intel's Web 2.0 platform

by Chris Gilmer Apr 18th 2007

intel suitetwo application platformIntel has collaborated with six software companies to build a next generation collaboration software suite for the productivity of businesses.

SuiteTwo is the name, and the six well known companies participating are piping in their advanced applications to create one single powerful application. NewsGator is supplying RSS, SimpleFeed, Six Apart's Movable Type has the hold on the blogging platform, Socialtext adds in a searchable wiki, SpikeSource provides the hosting, and Visible Path has integrated new social networking capabilities.

Competition for this product can be seen from IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com. With their partners in this application, Intel will surely hit the lead spot for this enterprise level business application. The announcement of the release was made at the Web 2.0 conference this week, and the product is available for demo.

[via InformationWeek]

Tags: blog, intel, movable type, MovableType, newsgator, rss, search, simplefeed, six apart, SixApart, social network, SocialNetwork, spikesource, suite two, SuiteTwo, visable path, VisablePath, wiki

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Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Windows Mobile, Shareware

Pocket SharpMT: Blog on the go

by Chris Brentano Dec 20th 2006

Pocket SharpMTPocket SharpMT is a handy blogging application for PocketPC devices which supports posting to MovableType blogs, including TypePad. It's the smaller cousin of SharpMT, a desktop blogging client for Windows. With full support of all posting options, as well as the ability to upload images, it's great for blogging if you are away from your computer and want to quickly convey your love of milkshakes to the world.

Pocket SharpMT requires the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, which is a free download from Microsoft's web site, so grab that first if you don't have it.

Tags: blog, movabletype, pocket sharpmt, pocketpc, PocketSharpmt, randyrants, typepad

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Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Social Software

Vox goes live, open to the public

by Jordan Running Oct 26th 2006

VoxVox, the blogging-meets-social-networking site from Movable Type company Six Apart, has finally opened its doors to the public after several months of invite-only beta testing. I've been using Vox for a few months, albeit very lightly, but I must say that that as social networking and blogging sites go, it feels very stable and streamlined. In addition to all the tools you'd expect in a blogging service, Vox has lots of shiny tools like audio uploads, integration with YouTube and iFilm, Flickr and Photobucket, and Amazon, and an Organizer that makes it easy to manage all the audio, video, and photos you've added to your account. The social networking side of the service is like a more refined version of LiveJournal's, with a Neighborhood page that displays all of your contacts' posts and privacy controls to restrict who can read and comment on a post. It also comes with a ton of professionally-designed themes, and a lot of little touches that don't necessarily blow me away but do make me realize just how much thought was put into each part of the service. Vox is a free, ad-supported service, and I think that now that it's open to the public it's going to grow rapidly.

Tags: blogging, free, livejournal, movable type, MovableType, sixapart, social networking, SocialNetworking, typepad, vox

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Filed under: Business, Internet, News, Blogging

SixApart aquires Rojo and Nooz

by Ryan Carter Sep 6th 2006

SixApart RojoThat famous and cutting edge blogging company SixApart, responsible for TypePad, Moveable Type, Vox, and LiveJournal today announces that it will gobble up social news aggregator Rojo along with Rojo's Nooz. According to TechCrunch, SixApart is planning to "sell a majority interest in the services business within a few months" (Barak Berkowitz, SixApart.com). We're guessing that means part of Rojo at this point. SixApart will continue to dash into the enterprise blogging fray, while Rojo remains a separate entity (for now) sans their leadership who will join SixApart. What will this mean for SixApart, and what about Rojo? Is this good for both? What do users of either service think? This will no doubt lead to greater integration in some way, but how? Sure, I have my own ideas, but after all 18 heads are better than one. Anyone care to speculate?

Tags: LiveJournal, merger, MovableType, newsfeed, Rojo, RSS, SixApart, Typepad, Vox

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Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Blogging, Web services

Watch Blog Comments with Commentful

by Chris Gilmer Aug 23rd 2006

monitor blog comments with commentfulCommentful is a useful tool for watching blog post comments, and getting instant notifications when comments are posted, similiar to co.mments and CoComment.

Through Commentful, you can set up specific URLs to monitor for comments. When a post URL is set up, and there have been comments added to that specific post, Commentful will send out a blinking beacon, either in the web application, or through a Firefox/Flock extension on your browser bar.

Commentful checks URL comments every 10 minutes for updates, and notifies you if needed for a period of 30 days, after which time the URL expires in the system. Fifty items can be tracked at once through the service, with support for Movable Type, Blogger, Wordpress, and other popular blog services.

Tags: blog, blogger, blogging, commentful, comments, movabletype, post, wordpress

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Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Commercial

TypePad launches blog widgets

by Jordan Running Mar 30th 2006

TypePad Widgets GalleryToday Six Apart launched the TypePad Widget Gallery, which is full of "blog widgets," or little modules you can add to your TypePad blog's sidebar that do things like display your Pandora stations, Squidoo lenses, or Rollyo searches. Until now, customizations like this for TypePad were only possible by hand-editing HTML templates, but widgets can be quickly installed with a few clicks. The gallery isn't terribly robust just yet, but according to TechCrunch's Ouriel Ohayon Six Apart is planning on opening up their API to third-party developers. As Ohayon points out, this launch comes very shortly after the WordPress team announced WordPress Widgets for Six Apart's primary free competitor.

Tags: blogging, blogs, movabletype, sixapart, typepad, widgets, wordpress

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Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux

Movable Type 3.2 in beta

WindowsMacLinuxby Jordan Running Jul 14th 2005

Movable TypeA beta of the latest version of Movable Type, 3.2, is now available for download. An incomplete list of the 3.2's new features can be found here. Many of the improvements deal with managing comments (and comment spam) and wrangling multiple blogs and posts. Movable Type is free for personal use, but will cost if you use it for business or want to run more than three blogs.

Tags: blogger, blogging, movable+type, MovableType, wordpress

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Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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