by Debbie Weil | Oct 27, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized
Update (2 days later): SixApart’s CEO Barak Berkowitz provides more details. He posted his Message from the CEO to the TypePad blog and also sent it in an HTML email to customers:Dear Debbie, As you might know, some of our users have been experiencing...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 26, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized
I dunno. It’s a feeling. It’s an invisible line. I came awfully close a few minutes ago… when I posted about recent problems with TypePad, SixApart’s hosted blogging service. I count several of 6A’s executives as friends and colleagues....
by Debbie Weil | Oct 26, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized
As I wrote here and here a few weeks ago, I’m one of thousands running a business blog on TypePad. The service has been excruciatingly slow of late. (Just now I thought I’d tear my hair out while waiting for this post to Save.) Sometimes it’s down...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 26, 2005 | New New Things, Stuff, Uncategorized
I gotta say that I’d run screaming the other way if I were a manager reading Andy Wibbels’ recent blog entry titled Blogging Cheatsheets. Andy offers four PDF downloads, each a mindmap illustrating in (terrifying) detail how to use the various features of...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 11, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized
OK, I admit it. Sometimes I latch on to the new new buzzword… and I’ve done it with Web 2.0. But honestly, I’m finding the concept fascinating. Here’s what I wrote in the current issue of my newsletter, WordBiz Report:In simple terms, Web 2.0...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 11, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized
You gotta love it. Seth Godin and the smart crew he’s assembled have torn a page directly out of Seth’s books to soft-launch his new online company, Squidoo. No traditional PR, no advertising, just viral blogging via his new e-book, Everyone Is An Expert...