08-18-2008, 10:43 AM
Quote:Earlier this week, San Francisco-based web publishing software company Six Apart released the newest version of its flagship product, Moveable Type, and pushed the blogging community into taking the first step toward a very social future.
It is not a new concept since their early days blogs were all about sociability. Late last year, we backed Chris Messinas wild idea that WordPress, the open-source blogging software that we use to power majority of our network blogs, could be become the underpinning for a social network. In January, Automattic, the company behind WordPress and the free hosted blogging service WordPress.com, bought BuddyPress to help bring sociability to blogs...
full article: http://gigaom.com/2008/08/14/why-blogs-n...be-social/