For those that frequent BigEndian (and Parallax), you will know that I am a firm believer that companies who provide the most development tools on their platforms, tend to emerge as the leaders in the long run. Well, Typepad has entered the fray with a whole series of Widgets. While there is mixed commentary on how well they are implemented (Fred Wilson's comments), I am simply glad to see them going about the blogging platform wars the right way (by providing as many development tools as possible). As a side note, Alexa's traffic rankings put the top two blog sites (in the context of the Top 500 sites) as:
19 - Blogger (Google)
131 - Typepad
Even if Alexa is way off with a 50% margin of error, the ranking difference would still be significant. I know i'm skipping stats like total subscribers versus active subscribers, paying subscribers, etc.. but in any count, typepad has a long way to go. Taking a platform is a good start.
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