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Mon, 21 May 2007 11:37:35 +0000

[...] TechCrunch has much love for Yahoo: This should help Yahoo move a few more hosting units, and will certainly expand the playing field for Six Apart. It�s a good deal for both companies, particularly Six Apart. [...]

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TechCrunch » Automattic, Home of Wordpress, Launches — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:36:34 +0000

[...] Also, and as predicted by Dave Winer, Wordpress.org also announced that they will be integrated into Yahoo hosting in a similar deal as that announced with Six Apart’s Movable Type last week. Tags: automattic, wordpress, yahoo, techcrunch, web2.0, web+2.0 Categories: Profiles, Blogging | Bookmark this post with del.icio.us [...]

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:51:29 +0000

Thanks for the clarification Anil.

By: Yosef

Yosef — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:35:12 +0000

Michael,

I don’t like your charecterization of yahoo and google. I do believe google cares about its customers. it seems that yahoo is trying to do the in thing and win the minds and hearts of the tech underground. Yahoo to me seems very corporate and are doing these things because of the bottom line$. Google on the otherhand I believe have loftier ambitions.

The thing that sets them apart the most is their engines. IMHO yahoo takes a long time to index pages and doesn’t seem to provide the most relevant searches. Google is faster in their indexing (suprisingly MSN seems to be the fastest) and seem to provide the best searches.

By: c.c.

c.c. — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:52:47 +0000

Michael, normally I would agree with you about Yahoo! treating its customers better than Google. But there is one major exception that keeps me from switching: Google has guaranteed that Gmail’s forwarding and POP access will always be free. This means I can change my email provider in the future with very little hassle. When will Yahoo! (and indeed, Microsoft) provide these two features for free, AND promise that they will always be free?

By: Sherwin Techico

Sherwin Techico — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:15:34 +0000

@femme: It’s actually “Movable Type” … two words =) even though I referred to it as that in the early days. Now its just MT, as its global now =p

Anyways, congrats to Anil and 6A.

@Michael: Ditto on the hosting, at least w/ Yahoo.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:07:21 +0000

Thanks Anil. I certainly don’t disagree. It’s just hard to get fired up about hosting.

By: Anil

Anil — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:09:01 +0000

Michael, thanks for the link. I’d (obviously!) disagree with your characterization that this is boring news… the truth is, most small businesses are unfamiliar with, and possibly a little afraid of, blogging. Anything we can do to make it seem safer and simpler is pretty exciting to me.

And Mike, the performance improvements are because of the hosting environment that Yahoo is running MT under. (Called FastCGI.) TypePad already runs under an even more optimized environment, but we do hear you loud and clear that you’re looking for improvements on the statistics functions. As Google’s trouble with scaling their Analytics service shows, it’s a really tough area to improve performance in, but we’re working as hard as we can to do so. Thanks for the feedback.

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:45:09 +0000

It would be nice if SixApart took this new MT code refactoring and upgraded TypePad with it… I still have to wait 15-20 seconds for the TypePad Stats page to load lol.

By: femmebot

femmebot — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:22:26 +0000

Please check your spelling. It’s MovableType (no e after the v) and also change your category spelling accordingly.

By: Jeff Rogers

Jeff Rogers — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:21:25 +0000

I remember Yahoo made a guy a billionaire buying his dotcom business which broadcast radio over the internet. Yahoo didn’t need to buy this service nor buy it at that price. But that guy turned out to be very ungrateful and arrogant.

Look at him today - have nothing else better to do but cuss on his blog while Donald Trump is enjoying a content deal with Yahoo.