Six Apart

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San Francisco, CA based company founded by Ben and Mena Trott that pioneered blogging platforms with most of their products.

In 2005, Six Apart acquired Danga Interactive, creators of LiveJournal and made Brad Fitzpatrick their chief architect.

Contents 1 Links 2 Products / Projects 3 Presentations 4 Presenters affiliated with the company 4.1 Current employees 4.2 Past employees

[edit] Links

• http://www.sixapart.com - homepage
• Sixapart blog

[edit] Products / Projects

• MovableType - first paid blogging software
• LiveJournal - first mix of blogging and social networking
• Type Pad - hosted blogging platform (ASP solution), first to announce enterprise blogging plans
• VOX - social network that introduced Open Media Profile for Open Search

[edit] Presentations

• Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime
• Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime (at Linuxfest NW 2007)
• Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime (at USENIX 2007)
• Data ObjectDriver: A relational mapper that doesn’t suck
• Open Platforms and the Social Graph
• Opening the Social Graph
• Plagger: RSS/Atom aggregator that sucks less
• Practical Web Scraping with Web Scraper

[edit] Presenters affiliated with the company

[edit] Current employees

• Benjamin Trott
• David Recordon
• Mena Trott
• Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

[edit] Past employees

• Brad Fitzpatrick
• David Recordon