- Six Apart
Infobox_Company
company_name = Six Apart
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = N/A
foundation =San Francisco, California (2001)
location = San Francisco, California
key_people = Ben and Mena Trott, Co-foundersChris Alden , CEOAnil Dash , Vice President
industry =Software & Programming
products =MovableType TypePad
VoxTypeKey SplashBlog
revenue = profit Unknown
operating profit = unknown
homepage = [http://sixapart.com www.sixapart.com]Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, with an international presence in
Paris andTokyo . It is the creator of the widely usedMovable Type blogware ,TypePad blog hosting service , and Vox, and the former owner ofLiveJournal . The name is a reference to the six-day age difference between its married co-founders, Ben and Mena Trott.History
The company was founded in September 2001 after Ben, during a period of unemployment, wrote what became
Movable Type to allow Mena to easily produce her weblog. When version 1.0 was put on the web, it was downloaded over 100 times in the first hour.cite web
url = http://sixapart.com/about/history
title = Six Apart - History
publisher = Six Apart, Ltd
last= Trott
first= Mena G
accessdate = 2006-09-08]2003-2006
In 2003, Six Apart received initial
venture capital funding from a group led byJoi Ito and his Neoteny Co., something which allowed the company to hire additional employees, acquire a French weblog publishing company, and unveil plans for what was to become its hosted weblog publishing system, TypePad. In 2004, Six Apart completed a second round of funding withAugust Capital , a move which allowed it to make acquisitions of other companies. In January 2005, Six Apart purchasedDanga Interactive , parent company ofLiveJournal , from ownerBrad Fitzpatrick , who was named Six Apart's chief architect. In March 2006, Six Apart announced the acquisition of theSplashBlog camera phone blogging service. The combined user base is now over 7 million, and the merged company has more than 100 employees. June 2006 saw the release of their newWeb 2.0 blogging platform, Vox.Its
CEO isChris Alden . Prominent webloggerAnil Dash joined the company in 2003, as did the former head ofWired Digital Andrew Anker . Six Apart's Board of Directors consists of Barak Berkowitz, Mena Trott,David Marquardt ,David Hornik ,Reid Hoffman and Jun Makihara.On
September 6 ,2006 Six Apart boughtRojo.com . PresidentChris Alden became executive vice president of Six Apart andgeneral manager ofMovable Type .CTO Aaron Emigh became executive vice president and general manager of core technologies.cite web
url = http://www.sixapart.com/about/press/2006/09/six_apart_acqui_1.html
title = Six Apart Acquires Rojo Networks
publisher = Six Apart, Ltd
date = 2006-09-06
accessdate = 2006-09-08]2007
On July 24, 2007, there was a major
power outage in San Francisco and power was lost to Six Apart's colocation which lead to outage affecting all 6A services, as well asCraigslist andTechnorati.com .On Sept 15, 2007, Chairman and Chief Executive Barak Berkowitz stepped aside and was be replaced by Chris Alden, who had run the company's professional software unit. [ [http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=allBreakingNews&storyID=2007-09-14T183137Z_01_N14210604_RTRIDST_0_BLOGGING-CEO.XML] Dead link|date=March 2008]
On December 2, 2007, Six Apart announced it was selling LiveJournal to
SUP Fabrik , aRussia n media company which had previously licensed the LiveJournal brand and software for use in Russia. [ [http://news.livejournal.com/104520.html news: LiveJournal & SUP ] ]2008
On April 21, 2008, Six Apart said it acquired Apperceptive, a New York social media agency, as part of its new strategy. It declined to disclose financial terms of the deal. It is also partnering with advertising agency Adify. Just as in an advertising network, bloggers will be able to sign up and participate in advertising campaigns managed by Six Apart. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=25849 Six Apart: Will blog for food] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.sixapart.com/ Six Apart]
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