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The TypePad team is pleased to introduce TypePad Connect, its latest project designed to enrich the experience of all bloggers (those on TypePad, Movable Type, WordPress, Tumblr and Blogger get step-by-step directions; otherwise all that's necessary is a snippet of Javascript for any web page you please).TypePad Connect is a free suite of services that makes community management easier with the ability to track, moderate and respond to comments across multiple sites and blogs from one dashboard or via email.  With TypePad Connect you can build a lively community on...

Do a good deed this Christmas - read a comic strip! This year, Pénélope Bagieu of the popular TypePad blog, Ma vie est toute à fait fascinante, is exchanging her gift for drawing comics into Christmas presents for kids all over France. From 17 November until Christmas, Orange will make a monetary donation to the long-standing "Arbre de Noël" initiative of the French Red Cross, for every visitor to Mon Beau Sapin. Through the  "Arbre de Noël" project, hundreds of children in France get a Christmas present every year -...

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...

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....

TypePad has snagged the top spot in Top 10 Hebergeurs' Hosted Blog category, ahead of runners-up WordPress and Blogger.Vox, our free hosted English/French/Japanese/Spanish-language blog service that makes it easy to stay in touch with family and friends, came in at an impressive #5.The shortlist was created based upon consideration of numerous items, such as:* ease of use* price* features* community* back office* options and extras* technical support* monetization possibilitiesAs with all Six Apart blogging solutions, TypePad is available in multiple languages and prides itself on maintaining the same high...

Following the success of last year's event, LeWeb is back in Paris 9 and 10 December for its fifth edition. As a Premium Partner, we are excited about what is in store this time around -- rumor has it that Brazilian literary genius Paulo Coelho has already confirmed his participation as a keynote speaker.Tickets are now available for purchase online; though the "Very Early Bird" tickets are sold out, "Early Bird" tickets are still available at a significantly discounted rate. Le Web 3 - 2007 from David Dworsky on Vimeo....

Calling all designers, artists and otherwise creative people: here is a competition tailor-made for you. TypePad is a proud sponsor of this year's edition of the annual Ooprint competition for holiday season cards. All you need to do is to send Ooprint your own New Year's and Christmas-themed designs by 20 October. The list of finalists will be published online on 31 October, with the winning designs available for sale until 15 January 2009. Of course, there are lots of prizes up for grabs for the lucky winners; for more...

Deutsche Welle's International Weblog Awards, the BOBs, will kick off for the fifth consecutive year on 31 August (which is also, not coincidentally, International Blog Day). The biggest global award event for blogs, podcasts and vlogs, this year's edition of the BOBs will judge contestants in 16 categories and 11 languages. Last year, some 100,000 Internet users nominated over 7,000 of their favorite blogs for inclusion in the BOBs. Needless to say, we get quite excited to see all the TypePad and Movable Type blogs among the chosen ones,...

Our popular native TypePad application for the iPhone is now available in 7 languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Japanese! TypePad for iPhone is available free from the official iPhone App Store.We've already seen dozens of positive reviews floating around the Internet since TypePad for iPhone was unveiled at the WWDC 2008, including one at Mashable, comparing the top 2 blog applications for the iPhone:  "I have already offered my own impressions about both applications, and happen to favor TypePad’s application a bit more than the WordPress release...

For the lucky ones who already have an iPhone and a TypePad account, we are happy to announce the availability of a free native TypePad application. The application allows for a full, seamless mobile blogging experience anytime, anywhere, and can be downloaded from the official iPhone App Store.For a brief, unbiased review of the native TypePad app for iPhone, look no further than Mashable.And for the (slightly less) lucky ones who have an iPhone but no TypePad account, never fear: TypePad offers free trial accounts direct from all of its...