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To: ~digs who wrote (555)	2/17/2003 11:21:08 PM
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To: ~digs who wrote (555)	4/24/2003 6:48:36 AM
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Battle of the blog builders Ben Hammersley reports on his exclusive glimpse of a new weblog program set to take the web by storm Wednesday April 23, 2003 The company behind one of the weblog world's most popular tools is preparing to launch a new service which will attack market leaders Blogger.com head on. SixApart, the company behind the Movable Type weblogging system, is to lanch a new "hosted" service called TypePad later this year. Like its rival, Blogger, the new system will be stored along with the user's writing on a central server. This means that, for the first time, budding webloggers who want to use Movable Type - regarded as the one of the most powerful weblog-building systems - will not have to hire server space from hosting companies. Nor will they need to go through the sometimes difficult processes required to install the Movable Type system on their server. It is expected that there will be three tiers of pricing, with varying levels of features and complexity. Pricing will be officially announced in May, with a public beta (or test) version being launched in June. Earlier this week The Guardian went to the SixApart's San Francisco office, in the home of Ben and Mena Trott, the husband and wife team who run SixApart, for an exclusive look at TypePad. What we saw was very impressive indeed. Technically, Typepad has embraced all the new things that have appeared or been requested in the blogging world in the past year. There is a built-in photo album creation tool, for instance, as well as a built-in Blogroll - a list of all your favourite sites, or lists of books and music you are reading and listening to. The standout feature is the template maker. Users can design their blog without knowing, or seeing, any HTML code whatsoever and with a very great range of control. Other features include real-time statistics, posting by email, and automatic creation of Friend of a Friend data - instantly taking an experimental standard and taking it to the mainstream. At the same time as the announcement of TypePad, SixApart also announced that they had received a major investment from the Japanese venture capitalist firm Neoteny. Run by Joi Ito, himself a famous Japanese weblogger, this investment is allowing not just for the launch of the new services, but also the employment of Anil Dash, a famous New York weblogger, as head of marketing and business development. guardian.co.uk