InternetMovable Type Moves Toward the Social

Six Apart's blogging platform refreshes with a social bent that looks to create a new breed of niche communities.

Blogging pioneer Six Apart is souping up its Movable Type publishing platform, with plans to release a new version tomorrow that will include a slate of social networking features such as profiles and discussion forums. As part of the forthcoming iteration of the Movable Type line, version 4.2, Six Apart plans to introduce what it's calling Movable Type Pro, which will contain the social networking elements. Six Apart promises that Movable Type 4.2 offers simpler design templates and noticeably faster performance than previous iterations. Many of the social features that come standard with the Pro version had been available either as plug-ins or through Six Apart's premium enterprise edition. "It's addressing a couple of those key ways that we feel blogging is evolving," Six Apart CEO Chris Alden told InternetNews.com. "The social networking converging with blogging is something we call social publishing." RELATED ARTICLES Demand Media's Got Pluck Six Apart Doubles Down on Monetizing Blogs Rethinking Social Networking Pluck Pairs Big Media With Social Networking KickApps Invites You to The Social Media Buffet For more stories on this topic: Six Apart's evolution of its popular publishing platform is very much in keeping with the spirit of adding social features to content sites across the Web. Companies like KickApps and Demand Media have built businesses on providing site owners with the tools to layer in... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

InternetU.S. fails to prosecute Internet fraud cases: report (Reuters)

Reuters - While Web users drown in spam and fend off scams aimed at stealing their money, U.S. federal and state law enforcement authorities are doing little to resolve what has become a multi-billion-dollar problem, a think tank said on Monday.

InternetSAP, Oracle Holding Out on Ubuntu?

As Canonical grows its Ubuntu partners, at least two important software vendors still do not support its version of Linux.