SixAprt, the creators of MovableType (the software I use for this blog), have announced they have raised venture capital (one of the investors is Joi Ito’s VC firm), got Anil Dash on board and launched TypePad, as an “an upcoming hosted service providing powerful tools for creating full-featured weblogs.”
This combination of development is almost as important in the world of blogging as Google’s purchase of Pyra a few months ago.
