links for 2007-06-09

links for 2007-06-08

Movable Type Goes Back to Open Source

The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type 4 Beta on June 5th, 2007. The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.

movabletype.org: Welcome to MTOS: the Movable Type Open Source Project

Six Apart is trying to build a open source around MT4.  May work, but it is a crowded arena.  Note to self: requires lots of Perl and MySQL

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links for 2007-06-05

But, Will Yahoo! Pay $12 Million For It?

How to Change the World: By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 – Article does a great job describing just how easy it is to get a site up and running these days.  And, most importantly, it includes all of the current buzz words.  The truth is, it has always been this easy.  All the money that gets poured into startups is mostly to finance lifestyle stuff I think.  If you want to change the face of the web, go ahead, fo it:)

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