The audience at Word Camp Mid-Atlantic drew a deep breath as Anil Dash, one of the co-founders of Six Apart a rival blogging platform delivered the keynote address. During the keynote he made a very sensational announcement. The screen lit up with a URL http://www.sixapart.com/wordpress which is like Microsoft having a place for Apple software on their website.
What Anil announced was that Six Apart is introducing plug-ins that word press and other blogging platform users can use TypePad AntiSpam, Six Apart Media, TypePad Connect, Blogs.com.
They are open source and FREE.
The other unconventional part of this announcement is that Six Apart decided to use a very grassroots Word Press event to make this sensational announcement instead of calling the New York Times, Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal. I took the opportunity to catch up with Anil Dash and interviewed him for this blog.
Here is the interview:
Watch the reactions from attendees of WordCamp
- Joel Mark Witt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OnCj62r1EQ
- Jimmy Gardner eastcoastblogging.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0GgxdtOzI
- Keith Casey blueparabola.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbcoF6Y_oKU
Network Solutions was one of the sponsors of Word Camp Mid-Atlantic
Other coverage of the announcement and Word Camp Mid-Atlantic:
Leena Rao, Tech Crunch
Doug Coleman on ReadWriteWeb.com
Jimmy Gardner EastCoastBlogging.com
Joe Corbett Isteconnects.com
Mike Paetzold wptutorial.com
Ted Mann on TurkeyMonkey.com
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