This should attract first-timers who shy away even from simple blogging services like WordPress or TypePad.
Popular subscription-based blogging service TypePad went offline on Friday, delaying updates to thousands of sites.
This is the second time in recent months that TypePad has had service problems.
Online job search company Monster Worldwide operates a TypePad blog full of career advice.
In October 2003, they launched TypePad and in January 2005, the company acquired Danga Interactive, operators of LiveJournal.
"Monster learned about the TypePad outage this morning and has been affected by it, " the company said in a statement.
An upstart, Six Apart in SanFrancisco, owns three blogging services--TypePad, LiveJournal and Movable Type--that together run a strong second to Google.
The activity streams standard has already been adopted by MySpace, Windows Live, Google Buzz, BBC, Opera, TypePad, Gowalla, Gnip and many others.
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Seth Grodin, who uses SixApart's Typepad blogging application to produce a widely read marketing blog, says he was "annoyed and upset" by the downtime.
He discovered the problem when he went to post a new entry on Friday morning, and says it's also making him rethink his TypePad subscription.
"TypePad did nothing to notify subscribers and has not attempted to communicate in any way, " says Snowball, who preferred not to give her real name.
Online job search company Monster Worldwide (nasdaq: MNST - news - people ) operates a TypePad blog full of career advice.
Other options include WordPress.org, Typepad.com, or Blogger.com.
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Use free software like WordPress or TypePad to create a blog, where you can write about your area of expertise, post your resume and keep track of your professional accomplishments.
The size and scope of Apple's developer program remains a bit of a mystery, but Apple has already shown off demos from online auctioneer eBay, mobile social-networking start-up Loopt, blogging service TypePad, the Associated Press and game developer Pangea Software.
The size and scope of Apple's developer program remains a bit of a mystery, but Apple has already shown off demos from online auctioneer eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), mobile social-networking start-up Loopt, blogging service TypePad, the Associated Press and game developer Pangea Software.
Users are provided with hosting for their site and a Web-based interface where they can enter their posts. (Disclosure: Forbes.com uses the TypePad service to power its blogs, including one by the author of this story.) Six Apart also operates LiveJournal, a popular free blogging service, and sells Movable Type, blogging software which companies and individuals can install on their own Web servers.
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