In December 2008, Six Apart acquired Pownce , a microblogging service that never managed to attract a large following. Pownce was shuttered after the acquisition, but its two-person team joined Six Apart to help integrate the technology into Six Apart’s blogging services

If Google Analytics just isn’t fast enough for you, there’s Chartbeat , a betaworks company which provides realtime analytics to Website owners. It gives Website publishers a second-by-second view of the number of visitors on their site, which pages are spiking in popularity, referring sites, as well as alerts ...

I don’t recall ever paying for a TypePad blog, but apparently I did. I learned this today when I logged in for the first time in years to see that the site I had set up in 2005 was deactivated because my credit card had expired

Blogging software pioneer Six Apart this morning announced that it’s debuting TypePad Cloud Platform , a new service that enables developers to use the service’s API to build social applications while leaving the storage, infrastructure and organization of the data that is core to such tools to TypePad’s so-called ...

The blogging space is cluttered with lots of options including WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType, Squarespace, and many more. Today Squarespace is releasing a new blog importing tool that hopes to attract many bloggers over to Squarespace’s blogging engine.

Never underestimate the power of first-mover advantage, especially when being one of the first movers gets you bought by Google.