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Not A Typo: Six Apart Opens Up Suite Of Products For Rival WordPress [techcrunch.com]Anil Dash, chief evangelist for blogging software platform Six Apart, announced today that blogging platform has launched a a plugin that provides WordPress users with access to a suite of Six Apart’s add-on features for blogs. Dash made the announcement at WordPress blogger convention WordCamp Mid-Atlantic. While some of Six Apart’s functionality have been available to WordPress users, this is the first time the site is offering these services as a suite to a rival blogging platform. These features include TypePad AntiSpam, a free open source anti-spam service; TypePad Connect, a commenting profile service; integration with Six Apart Media, the site’s advertising network; and inclusion with blog directory Blogs.com.
I read this to mean: "If you can't beat them, try to piggyback on their success."
"Show the unenlightened masses how good your stuff is."
My reading and yours don't actually preclude each other (one might say they imply each other actually), but more precisely, the possibilities I was thinking of were, when piggybacking on the success of Wordpress, in order to show the unenlightened masses how good your stuff is, are you hoping to
- make a business of value-added services for WP users and concede made for the masses platform race to WP.
- show that your stuff is so good that people might actually drop WP altogether and switch to Moveable Type or Typepad?
I see the second option as unlikely right now for many reasons. Of course, things change, but it's going to be tough to push that change.
>>I read it and asked myself, "Who is Six Apart?"
Well, yes, that does present a bit of a problem for them, doesn't it?
[sixapart.com ]
These are services that would probably work well with a number of other bogs, not just WP.
