TypePad

The people at Six Apart (the husband and wife team Ben and Mena G. Trott) are launching TypePad, a consumer friendly verison of their (user unfriendly) Moveable Type blogging software.

"TypePad is an upcoming hosted service providing powerful tools for creating full-featured weblogs. Built in response to the needs of webloggers, online diarists and writers, TypePad harnesses the power of Six Apart's popular Movable Type personal publishing system into a turnkey service, suitable for beginners and experts alike."

As TypePad is not released until May it's to early to say if it will becom an interesting option for the average blogger or not. The mind share of Blogger.com is huge and combined with that of its owner, Google, any competitor must be prep'd for a long and hard battle.

According to Ben Hammersley at The Guardian, TypePad's strength lays in its set of features. Personally I'm curious to see how TypePad manages its Moveable Type heritage and what pricing models will be on offer.

Palm Products - Tungsten C Handheld

Today Palm Inc. finally released a PDA with built in Wi-fi. Why did it take so long? A decline in PDA sales stifling innovation might be the culprit, but then again, the company also managed to release a new Zire (consumer) PDA with a built-in camera and othet goodies this week. Weak corporate sales? If so, you bet they are weak if you refuse to put out a product that incorporates 802.11b capabilities.

Either way, lets hope the demand turns in to sales as the Palm OS fan community needs and deserves a Wi-Fi enabled device.

Update: Unfortunately my blog provider, Blogger.com, is having some server issues today. All of my archives might not currently be available. Sorry.