MovableType Goes Head-to-Head with Google's Blogger
The husband-and-wife team behind Movable Type, the popular Web publishing system (which powers this web site), on Wednesday said they plan to go head-to-head with Google's Blogger to offer a one-stop personal publishing service. Six Apart Ltd. founders Ben and Mena Trott said they had agreed to bolster their management team and take on the company's first financial backers as part of a plan to compete with Blogger's Blogspot hosting service. They also said they planned in May to introduce TypePad, a service that takes advantage of Movable Type's easy-to-use Web publishing tools and provides helps with the initial Web site set-up and on-going maintenance and improvement of such sites. It is betting on the growing demand by Web site publishers to use devices such as mobile phones and Internet-connected handheld computers to blog, allowing users to keep friends and colleagues updated on the latest changes on their Web sites. Movable Type software has been downloaded by some 250,000 Web users with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Web sites created using the software. [Full story: Eyeing Blogger, Creators of Movable Type Expand - Reuters]
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