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Six Apart has teamed up with JumpBox, a developer of virtual appliances that offers simple solutions for server software deployment, to create Virtual Movable Type.As its name suggests, Virtual Movable Type by JumpBox is a version of Movable Type which automatically installs all necessary components of the original platform on a single virtual machine. In effect, it offers the same power and features of Movable Type without the complexity of configuring server applications upon installation.This latest application makes it radically easier for users, even those with minimal technical skill, to...

Wednesday at Six Apart is the day of the weekly hackathon - a full day of playtime in the Dev Department. At times, these creative sessions can turn out some pretty impressive results.Witness Sandbox for Movable Type, created by Beau Smith and Bryan Tighe. An MT plugin, it allows for radical changes in the design of existing blogs through the magic of CSS. It is also useful for those who are migrating from WordPress to Movable Type and want to keep their current design. Sandbox for Movable Type is based...

Movable Type now offers a Seesmic plugin, which allows for video commenting on your Movable Type blog. The plugin can be downloaded from the Movable Type Plugin Directory, which features hundreds of plugins including the recently-released and acclaimed TypePad AntiSpam.For a rare behind-the-scenes look at the making of a startup, look no further than Loic.tv, where Seesmic founder, serial entrepreneur, celebrity blogger and ex-director of Six Apart Europe, Loïc Le Meur, publishes videos daily....

For a free, easy test-drive of Movable Type, Movable Type Enterprise, or Movable Type Community Solution, please try our online Movable Type Demo - a great way to experience MT first-hand with just a click of a mouse....

Following our last post about our favorite design blogs, the Movable Type Design Assistant has been made available as a way to show people how easy and flexible Movable Type is when designing a blog....

The new Action Streams plugin for MT4.1 lets you aggregate, control, and share your actions around the web as well as a list of your profiles on various services. With the Action Streams plugin you keep control over the record of your actions on the web. And of course, you also have full control over showing and hiding each of your actions. The Action Streams plugin, by default, also publishes your stream using Atom and the Microformat hAtom so that your actions aren't trapped in any one service. If you...