14 posts and columns on Six Apart

SAY Media Wolfs Down Dogster

in Social on April 19, 2011 at 2:17 pm PT

SAY Media today announced it had acquired the pet community start-up Dogster.

News Byte

VideoEgg + Six Apart = SAY Media

in News on September 21, 2010 at 2:45 pm PT

So much for Six Apart CEO Chris Alden’s flat denials of a looming deal with ad network Video Egg. The deal is on, and when it’s announced tomorrow, Six Apart, the company that once ruled the blogging software market with its Movable Type software and TypePad-hosted blog service, will be no more. It will merge with VideoEgg to create a new company called SAY Media, “a media company designed for the social age.” End of an era.

Squarespace. $38.5 Million in VC Bucks. More Social Networking For All. (Stop Me If You've Heard This One.)

in News on July 14, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Another day, another giant venture funding. Today it is $38.5 million to Squarespace–which lets you make blogs, Web sites, mobile apps, social networking widgets and other such oversharing digital tools–from Index Ventures and Accel Partners. Squarespace is from New York. Index is in London. Accel is in Silicon Valley. It’s very global!

Media Consultant Michael Wolf Is a Media Consultant Again

in Media on February 24, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT

It must be “hang out your shingle week” for big media vets. First, CBS digital dealmaker Quincy Smith and crew formally unveiled his M&A shop after months of planning. And here’s Michael Wolf, the longtime media consultant last seen at Viacom. He’s back to consulting again.

WordPress's Matt Mullenweg Speaks!

in News on April 25, 2008 at 6:15 am PT

This week, I had lunch with one of the nicest young Web entrepreneurs around the scene, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg. We use a custom WordPress.com installation for this site, which has worked out well for us, and the start-up also hosts AllThingsD.com. We also got a very nice hoodie. In all seriousness, the company started [...]

Fiascobook

in News on December 3, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

In Soviet Russia, Blog Writes You

in News on December 3, 2007 at 8:27 am PT

Having blown its chance to develop LiveJournal into what could well have been an early Facebook, the site’s owner, Six Apart, agreed yesterday to sell it to Moscow-based online media company SUP. Financial terms weren’t disclosed, though Kommersant reports the deal to be worth some $30 million. The sale comes about a year after Six [...]

Facebook's OpenSocial Invite Apparently Lost in Mail

in Social on November 2, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Facebook’s OpenSocial Invite Apparently Lost in Mail

in Social on November 2, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Everybody-But- Facebook Coalition Announces Membership Drive

in Social on November 1, 2007 at 12:58 pm PT

Looks like Google’s “Everybody-But-Facebook Coalition” has some new members. News Corp.’s MySpace, Bebo and blogging outfit Six Apart have agreed to join OpenSocial, Google’s much-discussed social play. Bebo and Six Apart are nice additions, but it’s MySpace that will bring quite a bit more heft to this effort–an addressable market of some 70 million active [...]