everwas

a blog by Ian Kennedy

Tag: Six Apart

  • ThinkEquity, Equity Research Demystified

    ThinkEquity Partners, a San Francisco based boutique investment firm, launched a blog for its equity research analysts. From their press release:

    "ThinkBlog is leading the revolution in our industry," said Mr. Moe.
    "With the NYSE making a play to extend trading hours to foster European
    investments, real-time insightful intelligence on the ever-changing
    landscape of the marketplace will be paramount. We are the first
    Investment Bank to launch its own blog creating real-time, dynamic
    exchange with bloggers from the worlds of business, technology and
    investing. No other bank allows the level of openness and collaboration
    between its readers, proving once again that ThinkEquity Partners LLC
    is a leader in new media that is emerging due to its anywhere, anytime
    access."

    By being the first of their peers they gained a bit of press buzz which hopefully gave them some new clients but, more importantly, by jumping feet first into the conversation, they will now reap the benefits of deeper insight into what’s going on in the market and find their voice and build cred. I see big opportunities for the equity analysts to use blogs to build a brand around their research and hope to see more Analyst Blogs soon.

  • One veteran of Seventies politics says goodbye to another

    Jerry Brown, former Governor of California, democratic presidential candidate, and current two term Mayor of Oakland, bids farewell to Hunter S. Thompson who inspired the style, if not spirit, of many of the bloggers of today.

    Many thanks to Ted Shelton who seems to have introduced Jerry to blogging, plugged him in and turned him on.

  • www.sixapart.com

    Six Apart redesigned its corporate web site and now brings together all products, Movable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal under one URL. www.sixpart.com has the look and feel of a portal but is actually run completely on Movable Type. 

    Lots of good stuff here. A nice history page where you can learn about the company, a centralized support page where you can actually see what our crack support team looks like, a Movable Type case studies page, an integrated TypePad page which also serves as the Typepad login screen and features thumbnails of showcase sites, and finally a Partner section where we promote our hosting partners and have a blog of recent partner news.

  • Ask Jeeves launches blog on TypePad

    Ask Jeeves moved to a shiny new office tower in Oakland and launched a shiny new blog to boot!

    UPDATE: and buys online RSS reader, Bloglines.

  • Six Apart Global Headquarters

    Six Apart Global Headquarters

    Thanks to Niall, you can have a look-see around our new offices. Always nice to have blogger friends to document your life for you. I think this era has got to be the most documented age in human history. Too bad it’s all in bits though, 3,000 years from now no one will have a copy of IE or Firefox with which to read all this stuff!

    For those that want to preserve their blogs in print, try BlogBinders.com

  • Pictures of the office

    Thanks to another Kennedy (not related) you can see where Mie & I work.

  • GM Blogs

    I’m here at the New Communications Forum conference up in Napa, now in the second session on "Corporate Blogging" and so far Bob Lutz’s General Motors Blog, Fast Lane has been mentioned at least five times as a blog that’s been done right and an example to study and follow.

        – it has an authoritative yet human voice. Bob Lutz is the Vice Chairman of General Motors speaking directly to his customers.
        – comments and trackbacks are enabled.
        – it has an RSS feed
        – it runs on Movable Type

  • Achenblog

    Washington Post’s columnist Joel Achenbach is up and running on TypePad for his Achenblog. column.

    We’re all having a chuckle as he dives into the world of blogs. In this entry he writes about the levels of authorship that we provide and suggests some greater levels of authorship rights that we’ll be sure to look into for a future release:

    . . .there’s “junior author” and “author” and “owner,” but I think there’s an even higher level than that, an uber-owner, with a sign-on that allows you to rearrange everything on our site AND go over to the Times site and insert mistakes. There’s probably a level yet higher — someone who can, for example, go into the Library of Congress website, into the American Memory section, and fiddle around with the original texts of sacred American documents, such as the Declaration of Independence.

  • Movable Type Hosting Partner page

    For those of you who subscribe to this site via RSS (and for the benefit of the crawlers of the world), just letting you know that we now have a page where you can view the approved Movable Type Hosting Partners, find out more information about each one, and, if you’re a hosting company, apply to become a hosting partner.

    For those of you reading this site, take a look at the big ol’ tile on the left!