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The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type
Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, the next revolution for publishing is to bring that same ease of creation to the process of building social networks. With Six Apart's recent release of Movable Type 4.2, that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking platform which includes member profiles, forums, friending capabilities, rating of content, and more. WordPress isn't too far behind, either - a new platform called BuddyPress, is being built on the WordPress core. Is this the future of blogging? Or is this the future of web publishing altogether?
New RWW Design: Update
Last Monday we rolled out a new design on ReadWriteWeb and we received a lot of feedback on it, both positive and negative. Thank you to everybody who commented on the new design, particularly those of you who left detailed critiques. I'll address some of the feedback below, as well as update you on our comments system in general - which had technical issues during the week.
Overall I am still very happy with the design and it achieves the goals that I listed in the announcement post. But as with any Web development project, there is room for more iteration and some tweaking. So I want to assure you that all your feedback will be taken into consideration. Now to the specifics...
Admin: Comments Fixed & Faster; Note on Movable Type 4
This week Read/WriteWeb upgraded its server and also moved to Movable Type 4. The upgrade process resulted in issues with commenting yesterday and the first half of today. So my apologies to anyone who left a comment over the past couple of days for the bad user experience. Commenting is now back working - and what's more it is much faster than previously on this site.
The server upgrade (on Media Temple) and move to Movable Type 4 (Six Apart) are part of a major overhaul to Read/WriteWeb. We also have a re-design in the works.
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