Breaking: Six Apart Announces Wordpress Plugins
San Francisco based social networking and blogging company Six Apart announced today at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic that it is introducing plugins that will work on rival Wordpress sites and other blogging platforms.
This is big news and akin to Apple releasing software that runs on Windows. Six Apart should be commended for choosing a very grassroots-type Wordpress event to make this announcement and we think this is a good way to introduce its services to bloggers on other platforms. Shashi Bellamkonda had the opportunity to interview Six Apart VP Anil Dash about this shocking move. You can find that interview here.
At press time we have not had a chance to try out Six Apart's new free, open source plugins but Wordpress users can read more about them and try them out here.
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VERY BAD NEWS FOR MAC OS USERS BECAUSE YOU NOW
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Hi Doug,
Thanks for mentioning my interview with Anil Dash today in this post. I was very excited that Six Apart decided on a strategy of going to a WordCamp ( a very grass roots event ) and announce this. That is very good strategy and I think it will earn them some Karma points. Maybe they will sponsor some Word Camps too :)
Regards,
Shashi
"... akin to Apple announcing that it will use a Windows operating system..." No it's not, it's more akin to Apple releasing software that runs on Windows which isn't that shocking. If SixApart were looking to switch their blogging engine to run Wordpress, then your analogy would be correct.
You are right stuartm, the analogy I used was not really a good one. You'll be happy to know I changed my post to reflect that, thanks for paying attention and correcting me.
Hi,
Wow this is some big news. I use wordpress but now there is going to be quite possibly a better platform for easy blogging.
Well right now my website is www.watchtvstreams.com
I may change it altogether once this comes out. We will have to wait and see.
Good info thank you
I was surprised at this news but I dont think wordpress has much to worry about right now. It is being used so frequently that it can take a little bit of competition.
also,
I checked out the website posted by J. P.
its a nice website with a entertainment niche.
I don't really think you need to change that website: http://watchtvstreams.com/
Sorry, but the only real news here is the URL sixapart.com/wordpress. The listed plugins are available for all mentioned blogging platforms since months. Just head over to the Six Apart blog or even the RWW archives. Or am I missing anything here?
Yeah I have to say I don't think this is jaw-dropping shocking stuff either.
I just gave TypePad Connect plugin for WordPress a run down: http://www.cuplaweb.com/2009/05/typepad-connect-for-wordpress-not-feeling-it/
Check out Video of Anil Dash's keynote at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic and his announcement of the WordPress plugins on ISTEConnects.org
This is really a good news! Thanks to them for introducing the new plugins.
The usability and sheer number of plugins to fit any type of blog is probably the number one reason why I love Wordpress more than any other blogger platform out there.
Blogun herhangi bir tipine uyması için pluginsin kullanılabilirlik ve ince sayısı, muhtemelen benim, dışarı Wordpress'i orada olduğu herhangi bir diğer blogger kürsüsünden daha çok neden sevdiğimin bir numara sebebidir.
Awesome but too bad for Mac users
Sorry, but the only real news here is the URL sixapart.com/wordpress. The listed plugins are available for all mentioned blogging platforms since months. Just head over to the Six Apart blog or even the RWW archives. Or am I missing anything here?
Blogun herhangi bir tipine uyması için pluginsin kullanılabilirlik ve ince sayısı, muhtemelen benim, dışarı Wordpress'i orada olduğu herhangi bir diğer blogger kürsüsünden daha çok neden sevdiğimin bir numara sebebidir.
It's really a good news!