TypePad and MovableType Get Updates
News from SixApart, makers of TypePad and MovableType, is that their flagship product TypePad is getting an upgrade to better support static pages, while MovebleType 4.0 is being released in beta and will be fully open source by the fall of 2007.
The news about MovableType is interesting to me, in part because I decided not to cover it in HTDE with Your Web 2.0 Blog, when I had covered it four years ago in Blog On! It seemed like coverage of TypePad was enough; TypePad was getting more updates and interesting features that MoveableType when I started this book six months ago.
Now, though, a new initiative with MoveableType is very curious. It makes me wonder, just a little bit, if MoveableType might be an interesting platform for the Jackson Free Press, for instance, if it could truly be used in the way that pMachine Pro was so long ago — as a multi-blogging platform with rich features and the ability to bring all those blogs together in one place. Not the ExpressionEngine is bad for that, either.
Of course, there’s a caveat — the commercial pricing. If I’m reading it right I’d need to contact them for a custom license to let as many people use the blog as use the Jackson Free Press site. Looks like “custom” means “over a grand.”
Ouch, my head hurts.
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