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Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated '''6A''', is a software company headquartered in San Francisco , with an international presence in Paris and Tokyo . It is the creator of the widely used Movable Type Blogware , TypePad Blog Hosting Service , and Vox , and the owner of LiveJournal . The name is a reference to the six day age difference between its married co-founders, Ben and Mena Trott . In 2003 , Six Apart received initial Venture Capital funding from a group led by Joi Ito and his Neoteny Co., something which allowed the company to hire additional employees, acquire a French weblog publishing company, and unveil plans for what was to become its hosted weblog publishing system, TypePad. In 2004 , Six Apart completed a second round of funding with August Capital , a move which allowed it to make acquisitions of other companies. In January 2005 , Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive , parent company of LiveJournal , from owner Brad Fitzpatrick , who was named Six Apart's chief architect. In March 2006 , Six Apart announced the acquisition of the SplashBlog camera phone blogging service. The combined user base is now over 7 million, and the merged company has more than 100 employees. June 2006 saw the release of their new Web 2.0 blogging platform, Vox . Its Silicon Valley -seasoned CEO is Barak Berkowitz . Prominent weblogger Anil Dash joined the company in 2003 , as did the former head of Wired Digital Andrew Anker . Six Apart's Board of Directors consists of Barak Berkowitz, Mena Trott, David Marquardt , David Hornik , Reid Hoffman and Jun Makihara. On July 24, 2007, there was a major power outage in San Francisco and power was lost to Six Apart's Colocation which lead to outage affecting all 6A services, Craigslist and Technorati.com . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINK |
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