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Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company known for creating the Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox. The company also is the former owner of LiveJournal. Six Apart is headquartered in Tokyo and is planning to open a new, U.S.-based office in New York. The name is a reference to the six-day age difference between its married co-founders, Ben and Mena Trott.^[1]

History[link]

The company was founded in September 2001 after Ben, during a period of unemployment, wrote what became Movable Type to allow Mena to easily produce her weblog. When version 1.0 was put on the web, it was downloaded over 100 times in the first hour.^[1]

2003-2006[link]

In 2003, Six Apart received initial venture capital funding from a group led by Joi Ito and his Neoteny Co., something which allowed the company to hire additional employees, acquire a French weblog publishing company, and unveil plans for what was to become its hosted weblog publishing system, TypePad. In 2004, Six Apart completed a second round of funding with August Capital, a move which allowed it to make acquisitions of other companies. In January 2005, Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, parent company of LiveJournal, from owner Brad Fitzpatrick, who was named Six Apart's chief architect. In March 2006, Six Apart announced the acquisition of the SplashBlog camera phone blogging service. June 2006 saw the release of their new Web 2.0 blogging platform, Vox.

Its CEO is Chris Alden. Prominent weblogger Anil Dash joined the company in 2003, as did the former head of Wired Digital Andrew Anker. Six Apart's Board of Directors consists of Barak Berkowitz, Mena Trott, David Marquardt, David Hornik, Reid Hoffman, and Jun Makihara.

On September 6, 2006 Six Apart bought Rojo.com. President Chris Alden became executive vice president of Six Apart and general manager of Movable Type. CTO Aaron Emigh became executive vice president and general manager of core technologies.^[2]

Wikinews has related news: Six Apart Acquire Rojo

2007[link]

On Sept 15, 2007, Chairman and Chief Executive Barak Berkowitz stepped aside and was replaced by Chris Alden, who had run the company's professional software unit.^[3]

On December 2, 2007, Six Apart announced it was selling LiveJournal to SUP Fabrik, a Russian media company which had previously licensed the LiveJournal brand and software for use in Russia.^[4]

2008[link]

On April 21, 2008, Six Apart said it acquired Apperceptive, a New York social media agency, as part of its new strategy. It declined to disclose financial terms of the deal. It is also partnering with advertising agency Adify. Just as in an advertising network, bloggers will be able to sign up and participate in advertising campaigns managed by Six Apart.^[5]

On December 1, 2008, Six Apart announced the acquisition of micro blogging website Pownce.^[6] The Pownce website was shut down on December 15. The key developers of Pownce (Leah Culver and Mike Malone) stayed on at Six Apart through early 2010^[7], with Pownce technology being integrated into TypePad and TypePad Conversations.

2010[link]

On September 2, 2010 Six Apart announced that they would be shutting down their blogging/social networking site Vox with a final termination date set for September 30th, 2010.^[8]

Beginning from September 15, 2010 Vox users would not be able to post new blog posts.

On September 22nd, Six Apart announced its intention to join forces with VideoEgg to create a modern media company called SAY Media.

The combined entity, which will capitalize on the massive changes in how people consume media in the social age, will offer advertisers the influence of a blog, the reach of a portal and the efficiency of a network, and will continue to embrace the Six Apart mission to make publishers successful by helping them share their passions and grow and monetize their online audiences.

2011[link]

On January 21, 2011, SAY Media announced that it was selling the Six Apart brand and the worldwide Movable Type business to Infocom, a Japanese information technology company. ^[9][10] As a result of this transaction, the headquarters of Six Apart is now Tokyo, Japan^[11].

Nobuhiro Seki, who was the General Manager of Six Apart, K.K. prior to this announcement, became President and CEO of Six Apart^[12].

References[link]

External links[link]

• Six Apart

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Anil Dash
Anil Dash at SCS 2007
Born	(1975-09-05) September 5, 1975 (age 36)
Occupation	Director, Expert Labs
www.dashes.com/anil/

Anil Dash ( /ɑːˈniːl ˈdæʃ/; born September 1975) is a blogger, entrepreneur and technologist. He is currently the Director of Public Technology Incubator Expert Labs^[1] and a partner at ACTIVATE.com,^[2] a media & technology consulting firm.

Previously an independent technology consultant, and a new media developer for the Village Voice, Dash was the first employee of Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad and Vox, and served as its Vice President and Chief Evangelist until moving to Expert Labs.^[3] In 2003, Dash was one of four bloggers featured on the PBS series Media Matters. He has also spoken at events such as Northern Voice and the Web 2.0 Conference.

Dash's current role is directing Expert Labs, a non-profit, independent group with a mandate to help policy makers in the U.S. Federal Government utilize the expertise of their fellow citizens.

Dash was born and grew up near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A long-time resident and vocal fan of New York City, he lived in San Francisco for a time but has now returned to New York City. Aside from his professional role at Six Apart, Dash participated in two prank-like activities that gained attention on the Internet: in 2004, he was the winner of the "nigritude ultramarine" search engine optimization contest,^[4] and in 2005 he was photographed and printed in the New York Times on June 2, 2005 Fashion Thursday section in a Threadless t-shirt mentioning the web site Goatse.cx.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Anil Dash's weblog
• About Anil Dash
• ACTIVATE.com
• under the iron interview
• interview with Qu3stions.com

David Recordon (born September 4, 1986 in Portland, Oregon), aka daveman692, is an open standards advocate currently residing in San Francisco. Recordon was formerly employed as an Open Platforms Tech Lead at blogging company Six Apart. Currently he is working with Facebook as a Senior Open Programs Manager.^[1]

Recordon is best known for his involvement in development and popularization of OpenID. Recordon is an active proponent of OAuth and microformats.

In 2007, Recordon became the youngest recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award.^[1][2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Recordon's personal site and blog
• Thesocialweb.tv, A podcast Recordon does together with John McCrea, Chris Messina and Joseph Smarr

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Christopher J. Alden is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Red Herring, a magazine focused on the business of technology, and Rojo.com, an early web-based RSS reader.

Career[link]

Alden is Chairman and CEO of Six Apart, Ltd., the world's largest blogging company. In 2006 Six Apart acquired Rojo Networks, Inc., creator of an innovative RSS feed reading service, where Alden was co-founder and CEO.^[1] Before Rojo, he was CEO of Red Herring Communications, Inc., publisher of Red Herring magazine — described by the Wall Street Journal as the “bible of Silicon Valley” — which he helped launch out of his house in 1993. Prior to that he founded Computer Guides, a consultancy, and taught computer studies at Crystal Springs Uplands school. Alden also has a background in real estate development and hotel management, having worked for Western Land Corporation and Woodside Hotels & Resorts.

In the non-profit realm, Alden is a board member and former board chair for Peninsula Bridge, which offers academic enrichment programs for low-income middle school students to motivate and prepare them for success in the next steps of their education. He is also a founding board member of SV2, the largest venture philanthropy partnership in the Bay Area, and is a founding board member of Lead21, an influential political organization formed by entrepreneurial business leaders, for entrepreneurial business leaders. Alden currently sits on the advisory board of the Pacific Research Institute's Center for Technology Studies and is a former board member of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. He was awarded the Business Leadership Award from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA in 2000 and graduated with a degree in history from Dartmouth College in 1992.

References[link]

Resources[link]

• Alden's website
• R21, Alden's blog
• chris.typepad.com Alden's photo blog
• Official Linkedin site
• "Chris Alden of Six Apart on Blogging", Jun 09, 2009