Reason #4789, our IT manager sends out fantastic holiday gift ideas. > **To:** Six Apart SF Office **Subject:** Cruel Like Me If you have a Mac lover in the family and a cruel streak, I have lots of spare Macbook... | Continue »

So on a second watch of the Sports Illustrated tablet concept reel, I was struck by something fundamental: while the content looked great and a magazine interlaced with full-motion content is definitely fun to look at and page through, they... | Continue »

Jason Kottke, on his weblog. Before reading this interview, I didn't know much about [Cormac] McCarthy -- he's a fellow at the Santa Fe Institute? -- but now I think I need to read The Road. If this truly is... | Continue »

"This is the promise they all made in November," to contribute to change by getting more involved in the political process, he said. "I can't wait to pull that trigger on them." The good news is that my dear friend,... | Continue »

Let's see... Quick compose, definitely awesome for it's quickness (and nifty help box): Default blog quick-look, because anything with sparklines is +1000 in my book: Custom color schemes from images? Way awesome: And since I didn't get around to praising this when it came out, the newish insert images dialog: All of those things! | Continue »

As part of our ongoing rollout of the NEW TypePad we are pleased to announce new social blogging features and the launch of TypePad Micro: a completely free level of TypePad focused on easy sharing... | Continue »

Apparently miracles also take patience. Alethea and baby are healthy and happy. Thanks for all the well wishes. | Continue »

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It's Friday. It's almost Halloween. Let's blog about fun stuff, shall we? How about our latest TypePad Motion site: mmmeow? Join today to share your love for cuteness. And we're platform-agnostic when it comes to... | Continue »

You asked for it, you got it - now we've done two new themes in two weeks. The latest is a great new theme exclusively for our Beta team: Chroma. When you pick this theme, you'll upload an image to... | Continue »

Fifteen years ago today, HotWired (my second start-up) was launched, introducing the banner ad onto the internet. It's very hard to imagine it has been that long and quite frankly that anyone on the internet even remembers although it was wonderful to see AdAge magazine commemorate the anniversary with a very sweet piece by Frank D'Angelo, whose agency (Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer) ended up buying 4 of our first 14 advertisements. Frank writes: Has any one item in our industry been encased with so much debate -- at times even disdain -- as to its true value, role and... | Continue »

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This week we focused on a launching a few new features to everyone, launching some design improvements to Beta, and fixing bugs. Here’s a brief description of the some of the most important updates to... | Continue »