Apple, TypePad, & Walt

Six Apart is full of awesome people. Just awesome. It's full of bright, positive people committed to making a difference in the world. It's a joy to come to work with people who are so passionate, talented, and creative. I never worked at Apple, but from talking to friends who worked there in the formative days, I imagine its a similar experience.

This is one of the reasons that we are so jazzed by our relationship with Apple and have enthusiastically embraced bringing TypePad to the iPhone. Since the iPhone didn't have an SDK the first form of integration was web-based. And one of those awesome people I was referring to above, Walt Dickinson, who banged out the interface in a Six Apart hackathon, made it happen. Passion, talent, and creativity.

When Apple announced its SDK we got in line immediately to be a developer (with 100,000 other folks apparently!). Next up: a native app. Brought to you by more of those passionate, talented, and creative people (I'll blog about them when they ship it ;) ).

Here's some of the Everything TypePad post. I get the quote, but Walt and the team should get the credit:

As you can probably imagine, we're very excited about the possibilities that the new iPhone Software Development Kit opens up for mobile application development. Last week we announced that we'll be developing a native iPhone application, as a complement to our existing TypePad for iPhone web app. (If you're a TypePad user with an iPhone or iPod Touch, visit i.typepad.com to check it out.) Today there's plenty of coverage about Apple's SDK topping 100,000 downloads, and our very own Chris Alden is quoted in Apple's press release announcing that milestone:
"Six Apart pioneered the mobile blogging experience with an iPhone-optimized blog service," said Chris Alden, CEO, Six Apart. "We're taking it to the next level with our native iPhone application for TypePad that's already in development."
What's gratifying for everyone on the TypePad team is that our iPhone web app started as a "hackathon" project for Walt Dickinson, one of our rock star designers and front-end engineers at Six Apart. (Walt's a long time Mac user and Apple fan, so to see his work show up in an Apple press release was pretty cool.)

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giusec

said:

Hi Chris, any schedule-plan for a similar application for MT?

March 13, 2008 9:18 AM | Reply

Chris

said:

I don't have a schedule for that yet but we will develop one. Note that we have a plugin for MT that automatically provides a customized and specially designed user interface for the iPhone: http://plugins.movabletype.org/imt/.

March 14, 2008 3:49 AM | Reply

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Christopher J. Alden is Chairman & CEO of Six Apart, Ltd., the world's largest blogging company. Six Apart acquired Rojo Networks, Inc., creator of an innovative RSS feed reading service, where Mr. Alden was co-founder and CEO. Before Rojo, he was CEO of Red Herring Communications, Inc., publisher of Red Herring magazine -- described by the Wall Street Journal as the "bible of Silicon Valley" - which he helped launch out of his house in 1993. Prior to that he founded Computer Guides, a consultancy, and taught computer studies at Crystal Springs Uplands school. Mr. Alden also has a background in real estate development and hotel management, having worked for Western Land Corporation and Woodside Hotels & Resorts.
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