Editing Benjamin Trott (section)

==Influence of Six Apart==
Trott originally developed Movable Type in 2001 during a period of unemployment to help [[Mena Trott]], his wife, with her [[blog]], but the commercial potential was shown by over 100 downloads during the first hour it was made public. It became the dominant self-hosted blogging software platform for several years, until surpassed by [[WordPress]] later in the decade.

In 2003, Six Apart launched [[TypePad]], a popular hosted weblog service. Both came under heavy criticism in 2004 after moves to charge users to use the popular Movable Type system, even though there remained a free non-commercial version. In January 2005, Six Apart purchased [[LiveJournal]], another pioneer in blogging, later selling it at a profit. The company also started a fourth blogging solution, [[Vox (blogging platform)|Vox]], which it shut down shortly before the [[SAY Media]] acquisition in late 2010. Say Media later sold TypePad to Endurance International Group.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trademarkia.com/typepad-78235986.html|title=Apply for a Trademark. Search a Trademark|website=trademarkia.com|language=en|access-date=2018-02-02}}</ref>