Pownce relaunches as TypePad Motion
Six Apart has announced the launch of TypePad Motion service.
It is based on the newly launched TypePad platform and has features similar to Pownce.
It is a micro-blogging service that would now compete with rivals including Twitter and Posterous.
The company said that this new platform is based on their [...]

Typepad adds support for Pubsubhubbub
Typepad is one of the most popular paid blogging platforms.
The service has now added support for real-time protocol Pubsubhubbub which delivers RSS feeds in almost real-time.
Pubsubhubbub feature is similar to RSSCloud which was added by WordPress.com recently.
These two technologies are aimed to deliver RSS feeds faster to clients [...]

Squarespace provides a new comprehensive blog importer
Squarespace has announced the launch of a new updated blog import tool that would make it easier for anyone to switch their blogging service to their platform.
The company has made sure that the switch is as easy as possible. It handles:
Text content
Images
Tags
Authors
Comments
And even the original URLs!
Squarespace [...]

Bit.ly continues to expand with new partnerships
Industry experts might claim that link shortening services have little value as it is very hard for them to generate solid revenues.
But this has not deterred Bit.ly from becoming the giant in this segment of the market.
Bit.ly is already the default link shortening service used by Twitter. [...]

Six Apart now offering WordPress services!
Six Apart is known for their Movable Type blogging platform which is the main rival of WordPress.
However, the company has now announced a range of services and products for the users of WordPress blogging platform.
The company speaks about this new development on their website:
We believe in the power [...]

Pingdom claims Typepad is the most reliable blog service
Website monitoring service Pingdom has revealed that as per their own research, Typepad is one of the most reliable blogging services around.
They monitored some of the most popular blogging services for a period of four months.
Typepad turned out to be more reliable compared to other [...]

Six Apart acquires Pownce. Closing it down!
Six Apart has acquired the micro-blogging service Pownce.
The sad news is that they are closing down this service later this month.
Users of Pownce have the option to export all their messages in case they want to preserve them.
The service would not be accessible after December 15.
Six Apart [...]

Disqus launches updated plugin for wordpress
Disqus has now launched its new updated plug-in for WordPress blogging platform. This update fixes most of the issues bloggers had with the original edition of the plug-in.
The service is pretty interesting as it replaces the commenting mechanism on a typical WordPress blog. It also supports other platforms like Blogger, [...]

TypePad AntiSpam plug-in launched by Six Apart
Six Apart has announced the launch of their open source plug-in to combat comment spam on popular blogging platforms.
For now they are supporting WordPress and Movable Type.
It has rivals in the form of Akismet (from the people behind WordPress) and Defensio.
The company said that they have been using [...]

Brainjuice announced today that Blogo 1.1, the latest version of its weblog editor for Mac OS X, is now available to the public for download. Blogo makes posting easy even for users with no knowledge of HTML, and now includes support for the WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, TypePad, MovableType, and typo weblog systems. In addition to [...]