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  • Movable Type Demo at Fueled Collective in NYC

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    On August 28, 2013, I demoed Movable Type 5.2.7 for the inhabitants of Fueled Collective. Fueled is an co-working space in the Prince Building, in SOHO, New York City that was created by a mobile app development company known as Fueled. I talked about: History of Movable Type Web technology pioneered by Six Apart Strength Power…

  • Announcing Promote This! 1.2

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    Promote This! is a Movable Type plugin that Byrne Reese created in 2006 or earlier.  It was one of the first plugins to provide tags to support a wide range of social bookmarking and promotional services. Because Promote This! has been around for 7+ years, it’s present in a lot of older Movable Type 4 installations.  After6 decided…

  • After6 Gets Its First Twitter Card Accepted

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    We were able to get a Twitter Summary Card accepted for OperationGadget.com, one of the oldest Movable Type-based sites maintained by After6 Services. What’s a Twitter Summary Card? That’s the part of an embedded tweet that shows the introduction to a web page or a blog post. Here’s an example of a Twitter Summary Card…

  • SuperAssets for Flickr Screencast

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    Here is a screencast which demonstrates the key features of SuperAssets for Flickr. SuperAssets for Flickr allows you to easily select Flickr photos to include in entries and pages that you publish with Movable Type.  SuperAssets for Flickr automatically stores links to the Flickr photos you select so that they are available in the Movable…

  • Announcing UnrecognizedTags 0.7

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    Maybe you do a lot of Movable Type 3 and 4 migrations to Movable Type 5.2, like I do?  If so, you need the UnrecognizedTags plugin. UnrecognizedTags identifies all Movable Type Markup Language tags that Movable Type currently doesn’t recognize. With it, you can identify unrecognized tags throughout an entire Movable Type instance. In other words, it will identify…

  • Introducing Reblog 2.4

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    Reblog 2.4 was just pushed on Github. This version: solves an entry duplication issue in Movable Type 5. eliminates a dependency on the Perl module called Switch. I’d like to thank Shmuel Fomberg for his patches that solved these important reported issues. I maintain the Reblog plugin on behalf of the Movable Type Community.  For more…

  • Relaunching Our Main Site

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    Welcome to the new After6 Services website! This site was built with our Wrightstown Theme for Movable Type 5, a product that has been under development for more than six months. There are a few people to thank for this launch: Kathleen Aiello did virtually all of the theme implementation work, to make the core content…

  • Today We Are Two!

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    After6 Services celebrated its second anniversary on January 11.  Happy birthday to us.

  • Relaunching Our Help Desk

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    If you have dealt with After6 Services before, you may have noticed that we switched Help Desk services.  On December 6, 2012, we made the switch to Desk.com, which is a service provided by Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is the provider of our Customer Relationship Management system, so we hope to see the benefits of a lot…