Six Apart, proprietor of LiveJournal, is releasing a beta version of its publishing software, with features tailored to the increasing enterprise use of collaborative blogging.With a focus on adding administrative control and spam-fighting features, the maker of Movable Type is updating the popular Weblog-publishing software.
Six Apart Ltd., which also runs the TypePad and Live Journal blogging services, posted a beta release of Movable Type 3.2 late on Wednesday and expects to introduce a general release by the end of the month, company officials said.
With the new version, the startup company partly hopes to address the increase in blogging among enterprise and organizational users, said Anil Dash, vice president of Six Apart's professional network.
The company also is trying to thwart a rising menace—the rise of spammers filling blog comment sections and stuffing trackbacks with unwanted and irrelevant comments and links.
Six Apart's fine-tuning of administrative features may come none too soon, as major software competitors are beginning to unfurl blog tools.
IBM earlier this week launched a preview of a blog-publishing tool and detailed plans to add a blogging component to its upcoming Workplace Designer 2.5 release.
But Dash said that the upcoming Movable Type update puts the software steps ahead of current and potential competitors when it comes to providing features for IT and blog administrators.
"We're maybe halfway to where we'd like to be," he said of the enterprise-focused features. "The next key phase is going to be integration."
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