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Scott Andrew on Typepad

Delimiter is Scott Andrew’s new TypePad blog. Unlike his primary blog which mostly talks about his adventures as a musician, Delimiter promises to cover fun and interesting Web stuff. Should be good. Congratulations to Scott for his new job at Amazon as well.

Despite still officially being in beta, I’ve seen quite a few links to TypePad blogs cropping up. Thanks to blo.gs, you can get a list of all of them(?) by searching for typepad.

Posted 22nd July 2003 at 4:32 pm

This is Scott Andrew on Typepad by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd July 2003.

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  1. For what it's worth, some Typepad blogs may also be using the blogs.com domain.

    jacob - 22nd July 2003 17:16 - #

  2. I can tell you that TypePad is very polished. The biggest shortcomings in the beta regard missing features that are surely on the way. Appropriately priced, TypePad will be an excellent hosted solution for many folks.

    More ruminations here and here, and my TypePad beta here. My concerns and interest are with

    1. Text and markup parsing — The parser produces valid and expected structural markup from casually entered text, and allows a mix of inferred and explicit markup with very few problems. Probably the best I've seen apart from Textile. It does not transform extended ASCII characters (which can result from word processor copy-paste operations) to numeric Unicode entities, but could and hopefully will.
    2. The UI — Clean tabbed interface. Uncluttered, with context-sensitive help in a right sidebar. Makes me want to copy it.
    3. General feature set — Everything that's now de rigeur, plus a few extras: Amazon.com Associates ID integration (and wishlist); very nice photo album (thumbnail cropping could improve); referrer stats (primitive, but there); straighforward implementation of dynamic “extras” such as blogroll, reading list (that's where the Amazon Associates pref comes in).

    In general not too much nor too little for most consumer needs, and a well-designed UI. Strikes the right balance, in my opinion.

    Lou Quillio - 24th July 2003 02:48 - #

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