Category: Products

Everything TypePad announcesthree new features for TypePad, namely additional sorting options for TypeLists (blogroll-like lists), the ability to upload a zipped folder of photos (a vast improvement over the tedious, one-at-a-time 15-at-most original method), and the ability to password-protect your entire TypePad site. (via Buzzmachine)

Been busy holidayin’ and doing other stuff lately, so a lot of the basic substrate of blog news and blog gossip is passing unremarked. By now, most MT users probably know that Movable Type is vulnerable as an open spam relay. If you are not using the “mail this entry” feature, it is highly recommended…

Anyone who’s worked with UserTalk, Frontier, Manila, or Radio knows that there’s a lot of impressive power packed into these tools and also a lot of idiosyncrasies. The software is ideological in the sense that it reflects the choices and preferences and decisions of mainly one programmer and software architect, Dave Winer: In software your…

Jason Shellen’s got a hack that will add a Blogger bookmarklet-type button to the new Google Deskbar. Now, who will do the same for MovableType, Radio, pMachine, LiveJournal, AOL Journals, Lycos blogs, etc.? (phew!) [via BuzzMachine]

Andrew Grumet explains how to get started with multi-post publishing from Radio to Movable Type. I presume this would work with TypePad as well?

Scot Hacker reports some scaling problems with Movable Type. He’s noticed that his server is taking longer and longer to rebuild after each new post or comment. The comment problem leads to people double- or triple-posting in frustration. Thus far he’s found an unorthodox solution, but he’s mainly hoping that the speed/efficiency problems are solved…