It been eight years since Movable Type, an open blog platform has been released. Recently some major steps in Six Apart’s continuing mission to make web publishing more accessible and social were announced: the TypePad Platform and TypePad Motion, a new open-source software social application.
The TypePad Platform
Six Apart announced the launch of the TypePad Platform, where any developer, blogger, publisher, or firm can use the TypePad “cloud” through their open APIs. This novel platform enables developers to use structured object, like blogs, posts, comments, people, activities, groups, and tags, to quickly and inexpensively build next generation social applications on a reliable, secure, and scalable platform.
For larger publishers and Internet businesses, TypePad Platform can stand as a new way to incorporate blogs and social networking into their sites – offering an alternative to completely local software solutions or completely hosted SaaS solutions. With the TypePad Platform, publishers can use the presentation layer and templates of their choice – be it via MT, PHP, Django, Java, etc. – while not having to install and support an expensive back end.
For personal bloggers and TypePad users: TypePad will be built into applications that will help the bloggers and their readers, paving the way for more applications that enhance TypePad functionality.
For larger TypePad customers: the TypePad platform opens up a large set of possibilities about how they can integrate their TypePad blogs into their existing web sites.
TypePad Motion
To show what the TypePad Platform can do, Six Apart announced TypePad Motion as the inaugural open source application for the TypePad platform. Typepad Motion is a microblogging app evolved from the Pownce codebase & community. It’s a effective example of how developers can use TypePad and control of an entirely separate presentation layer, like Django, to maintain templates and build pages.
A TypePad Motion site is a place where members come together to share notes, files, photos, videos and audio with others and featured users can aggregate all of their activity around the web onto the TypePad Motion site, keeping their fans or followers up-to-date on their activities. Several celebrities have integrated TypePad Motion sites into their branded websites, such as Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, Heroes) and Ryan Star.
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