Blogs @ WorkMovable Type 4 Beta: We’re On A Mission Open Source and Web 2.0 ?
Posted by: andrew in Geeking
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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June 6th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Hmm.
Well I’ve never been an MT fan, so these comments may be no surprise. However, let’s look at those features… oooo, all of them are supported by WordPress today.
Feels to me like they’ve seen WP come from nowhere and eclipse them, and now they are playing catch-up.
As for the comments about LJ, TP and Vox – hmm – we’ve enticed them in, now all their base are belong to us!
June 6th, 2007 at 10:47 am
interesting andy.. I started on MT a while back not sure why i picked that over wordpress, I think you’re right wordpress is taking over from the likes of MT which was strong at the start.
My servers in Global Switch 1 at docklands have worpress install scripts on them, so using wordpress should in theory be a more sensible option.. It may be time to re-evaluate what my blog sits on, especially given I need to give it an overhaul and redesign!! and of course I need an easy way to migrate over my posts and comments etc…
June 6th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
If you want to leapfrog the current incumbent, then Habiri is supposed to be the next big thing. Personally I think WP is great, highly extensible, and already open source.
June 7th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Andy, I think you’re right I setup a test copy of this blog with wordpress today at lunch time, generally everything moved across fairly easily, although the permalinks may need some work.. I may well move over to WP next week if all goes well, I like the interface more than MT.. nice call.. thanks