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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...

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...

Decys' latest TypePad adventure, Mauvaise Influence, is now open to the Internet-browsing public. Based on what they've done with Trends Now, The Trendy Girl, Luxury Issues and Sounds Hunter, we can't wait to see how this promising site will evolve.And while we are on the subject, we'd like to remind you that Ama Violette, Les Fleurs and Lilli Bulle are some other fun, French online boutiques powered by TypePad. Let the shopping begin!...

French monthly Psychologies has been working with our Services team to launch their TypePad-powered site dedicated to all things luxe. Le Mag Luxe is a good example of TypePad's flexibility; with TypePad's endlessly customizable nature and the use of advanced templates, there is no limit to what can be done in terms of design.See Le Blog Sécurité from Orange Business Services for another example of what can be done on TypePad....

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....

Five years ago this month, Six Apart introduced TypePad to the world. Since then, TypePad has grown into a vibrant community of talented individuals (see some of The Guardian's picks of the best blogs in the blogosphere) speaking a host of languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish), and has become a staunch supporter of web innovation (mobile blogging solutions for BlackBerry, iPhone and most of the smartphone market; fighting spam on blogs, both TypePad and non-TypePad; and creating applications linking blogging to popular social networks like...