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This is an interesting read;

If you just want the details and features and good stuff, there’s a free beta version to play with, and you’ll find out about all kinds of cool new features:

* A completely reinvented user interface with a dashboard overview of how all of your blogs are doing

* 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

* A completely redesigned component architecture that makes MT faster and more scalable than ever before

* And it’s going to be available in a completely open source version with its home at a completely relaunched community site that revives an old, beloved movabletype.org.

We have three tools other than Movable Type here at Six Apart: TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox. Each of them was designed to reach people Movable Type couldn’t connect to. And now that they’re all on the path to getting their audiences, we can take their technology, and the lessons they’ve taught us, and bring them back to Movable Type.

Movable Type 4 Shared Components We started TypePad four years ago, to get a lot of the power that MT users had experienced into the hands of people who didn’t want to install software, and it’s evolved into a tool for serious bloggers, as well as great option for small businesses and even big-name publishers to get the word out without the technical requirements.

When the LiveJournal team joined Six Apart, it was a crash course in community, one that’s been challenging at times, but has also been immensely rewarding as we start to see what helps people really connect with each other at a human level. And it doesn’t hurt that the LiveJournal team invented a lot of the technology that’s helped grow not just our communities, but all of Web 2.0.

The success of all those Web 2.0 communities is something that greatly influenced our efforts in Vox, where the community lessons of LiveJournal were combined with one of the messages that our Movable Type community taught us early on: Sometimes we just want to talk privately to our friends and family, even when we’re blogging. A lot of the biggest challenges in blogging have come from not being able to direct the right conversations to the right groups of people, and so we’ve spent a lot of time trying to meet that need.

It’s kinda hinting at an open source version of MT and aspects of WEB 2.0…

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