As promised earlier this year, Six Apart has released an open-source version of Movable Type, the company's main blogging platform. The new Movable Type Open Source (MTOS) is licensed under the GPL, ...

Custom Fields provide Administrators with the ability store and manage different types of content within MT by defining new fields and input types. Things like product catalogs can be created; ...

When I first got started blogging, I used a popular system called Movable Type. It was free, easy to install, and it worked well. At the time it was the system of choice for most bloggers. But then in ...

If WordPress and Drupal can take over the Web CMS world, why not a company like Movable Type? After all, it was one of the originators of the easy to use, easy to build and maintain content management ...

The new version’s enhancements keep Movable Type ahead of the rudimentary blogging capabilities vendors like IBM and Microsoft have begun putting in their collaboration platforms. “No one has anything ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

Although it’s been long-expected, Six Apart finally transitioned its Movable Type blogging software to an open-source license today. In many ways this is a response to the success of WordPress, the ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

For solution providers or DIY-admins, setting up the software in-house is also a fairly simple process. Depending on how mature the selected blog platform is, it can be as simple as unzipping the ...

SixApart have released a new beta version of popular blogging content management system Movable Type. Moveable Type 4.0 is the first major release of Movable Type since MT 3.0 in 2004 and comes ...