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Le Web '08, Europe's largest conference dedicated to the web industry, is fast approaching. Now in its fourth year, the event will feature such esteemed speakers as Paulo Coelho (award-winning author of The Alchemist), Nikesh Arora (Google UK), Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), Chris deWolfe (MySpace), Dave Morin (Facebook), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) and many other luminaries hailing from the Internet industry and beyond.As a founding partner of Le Web, Six Apart is offering a discounted rate on tickets until 20 November. Standard rates range from €1,495 to €1,794; our special reduced price...

Six Apart and vpod.tv have teamed up to offer a simple but powerful online publication platform with built-in video streaming as an effective all-in-one solution for quality online broadcast. Thanks to a new plugin, users can upload and publish video content in a few clicks from within the Movable Type interface. Additionally, videos uploaded in this way can be kept completely private, setting it apart from other free video upload services.For more information on the Movable Type vpod.tv plugin, download the full press release here....

This week, President-elect Barack Obama made history. Regardless of one's political orientation, nobody can deny that his campaign was the best-executed, modern operation seen in recent years. Exit polls indicate that Obama accessed large numbers of young, first-time voters -- and his deployment of Web2.0 tools (including an iPhone application, a Facebook page, and of course, his Movable Type blog) was obviously a winning strategy.Incidentally, President George W. Bush also used Movable Type during his successful campaign for the US Presidency.To stay on top of the latest developments in...

Clotilde Dusoulier, the gastronome behind the wildly popular food blog Chocolate & Zucchini, will be at W.H. Smith on in Paris on 18 November to meet fans and sign copies of her latest book, Clotilde's Edible Adventures In Paris. Clotilde has been posting recipes, restaurant reviews and tantalizing photos of her creations on the Movable Type blog for years and we couldn't be more excited about her success. In the author's own words, Clotilde's Edible Adventures In Paris is "a book on Paris restaurants and food shops, in which I...

At TypePad, we've been working on a lot of applications that work across platforms like  TypePad AntiSpam, Blog It for Facebook and Blog It for iPhone. Now we're introducing Blog Link, an free application that - you guessed it - links your blog to the popular professional networking site, LinkedIn. Blog Link is a free, easy-to-use application that displays a feed of your latest blog posts on your profile, so you can share your thoughts across your LinkedIn network. Of course, the application works in both directions; that is, you...

"When you don't know where else to invest, you invest in yourself."Six Apart CEO Chris Alden was interviewed by Portfolio.com's Tech Observer on how the economic crisis will affect the blogging industry....

This month, Movable Type is celebrating its 7th year of powering some of the best sites across the Internet (think Boing Boing, Beppe Grillo, Design Observer, Gothamist, Huffington Post and scores of others). The team behind Movable Type thanks MT users around the globe for their loyal support and looks forward to more of the innovations that have made Movable Type a pioneer in its field....

Where blogging is concerned, the question most often heard among the uninitiated is: what for? Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic shares his thoughts on this very subject in Why I Blog, a comprehensive look at the medium from a historical and sociological perspective.Mr Sullivan blogs regularly on the TypePad-powered Daily Dish as well as elsewhere on the Movable Type-powered Atlantic....

Britney Spears is back, better than ever... and on Movable Type. Check back regularly - Britney promises to update her blog with "videos, pictures and other cool stuff"....

La Presse Quotidienne Régionale, a consortium comprised of French newspaper publishers, has turned to Movable Type to create an open forum in which to discuss the hot topics circulating in the industry today. Representing 59 titles and 20,000 employees across France, the PQR is the nation's largest and most important association of daily newspaper publishers.Readers are invited to share their views on the current state of the newspaper industry, the effects of the Internet on the traditional press and their vision of what will become of daily publications in the...