Anil Dash at Six Apart pinged me this afternoon to let me know that an early beta
of Movable Type 4 will be available tomorrow. There are several pieces of big news with this release: the product has been rearchitected with an eye toward better extensibility, will add significant new feature functionality pertaining to things like community/social networking, will sport a new user interface (hopefully we’re talking Ajax goodness here — Typepad’s reliance on pop-up windows has always peeved me). But perhaps most significantly — MT4 will be made available as open source.
I use and love both MT (in its hosted incarnation as Typepad) as well as Wordpress. I know that MT users have been clamoring for an open source version of the product for some time, I’m just hoping that it doesn’t come too late on the heels of Wordpress’ success. I suspect that we’ll start seeing some interesting cross-pollination between MT and Wordpress over time, but a lot will hinge on how well Six Apart can build a community around its product.
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