Six Dumbest Moments in History for SixApart
#6 Started Talks with NewsCorp.
#5 Started Charging for MovableType.
#4 Bought Livejournal in order to increase value of Typepad.
#3 Hire PR Agency that Spams their Users.
#2 Started Blogspot Clone to lessen the value of Blogger
#1 Give Customers $$ for Shitty Service to appease Mr. Murdoch
What the Future holds for SixApart
A Merger with MySpace folds Livejournal and Typepad in with Myspace. While this will pay a few bills that are piling up over at SA it won’t win anyone’s heart. They badly need to keep Typepad users while they are negotiating a sell to NewsCorp. So they decide to start paying customers to stay with them.
They have really pissed off a lot of faithful MT types and pushed them right out the door since they changed their licensing. Including me. I am now a fond believer in Wordpress, although a little scared by Wordpress.com.
If Ben and Mena get lucky they will get to keep MovableType and shed Typepad/Livejournal. If they don’t look for them to jump on a new Web 2.0 project and use their name to start something less evil.
It’s. All. Very. Scary.
runs off to export all LJ entries for safekeeping elsewhere
Madolyn said this on November 16, 2005 12:13 am
Don’t worry, Madolyn. Someone’s apparently been smoking crack. Let’s see, where to start?
“#6 Started Talks with NewsCorp.”
You’re basing this off a rumor reported in only one place on the internet, that place being the Blog Herald, whose “editor” has a massive vendetta against Six Apart and co-founder Mena Trott?
“#5 Start Charging for MovableType.”
This is opinion. Some say that that’s what saved their ass and made them what they are today.
“#4 Bought Livejournal in order to increase value of Typepad.”
Not sure how this qualifies as a bad thing. I use LJ and it has improved greatly since the acquisition so there’s certainly no cannibalization. Whether or not it increases the value of TypePad (or even if that was actually the original intention) is anyone’s guess.
“#3 Hire PR Agency that Spams their Users.”
I think that’s been pretty well debunked at the source, which you didn’t link to: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005687.html
“#2 Started Blogspot Clone to lessen the value of Blogger”
Ummmm. Have you ever used TypePad? I have. I’ve also used Blogger. If they were trying to clone it, they failed. Instead they made something far superior. Bad Six Apart! No biscuit!
“#1 Give Customers $$ for Shitty Service to appease Mr. Murdoch”
Now we’re assuming that #6 was true AND on top of that there’s a conspiracy. Don your tinfoil hats and cue the X-files theme, baby: It’s WACKO time!
Gunter said this on November 16, 2005 10:18 am