I checked out Six Apart's website (Six Apart makes Movable Type) to see if there was more news on the partnership with Yahoo!, but all I could find was a new link in the upper right area of the screen that took me to a page at Yahoo! Small Business offering a combination of Yahoo! Web Hosting and Movable Type for small businesses. I just wish that it were easier to find news and information about the new partnership directly from either Yahoo! or Six Apart.
I think this new partnership not only shows just how serious Yahoo! is about establishing itself as a Web 2.0-savvy, blog-savvy, social software-savvy enterprise (see my posts on Yahoo!'s purchase of del.icio.us and Yahoo!'s new RSS email folder), but also bodes well for Movable Type in particular and business blogging in general. People's heads continue to turn due to news like this about business blogging. I think it's another important step toward bizlogging becoming "mainstream."
What do you think about the new Yahoo! / Movable Type partnership?
Depending on the size of the business, I think some people would probably still find TypePad easier than going for the Yahoo!/Movable option.
It's really flexible, particularly if you go for the pro option, and once you get it set up with a third party blogging application like Qumana or even Flock, it takes little effort to keep the plates spinning.
Posted by: Neil MacLean | December 13, 2005 3:33 AM | Permalink to Comment