
Reuters's Eric Auchard reports that Yahoo! will now be the "preferred provider" of Movable Type (the highly popular blogging software) for small businesses. So one of the largest Web companies has now teamed up with one of the most prominent blog publishing software makers to create an enticing opportunity for business owners. For about $10-30 a month, your small business will get 5-20 GB of hard disk space and 200-500 GB data transfer per month (three basic plans are available). And Movable Type will power your blogs for Yahoo!
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?
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?