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Aside from the classic TV broadcast that covers the french open, IBM, technical partner of the event, opened a blog, Sous le central, dedicated to the technologies used for Roland Garros to be really attractive, both offline and online.Live statistics with Slam Tracker, key moments replays with Visual Match ... IBM technologies, even if very well hidden, are put in motion to offer everyone the best experience in following Roland Garros.So if you're into sports and technologies behind them, pay a visit to the blog, contents are available both in...

The Six Apart services team helped the curators of cool (aka the Dark Planneurs) to revamp their TypePad blog with a much more professionnal look & feel.On "L'Observatoire du Monde Contemporain" (the Contemporay World observatory) you will find the last trends in term of luxury, advertising, art and much more, including a Web TV with exclusive contents (interviews with Castelbajac or Kapferer).We're very proud to have been able to fulfill their needs in launching this new Webzine and wish them the best for 2009....

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,...