Editing Benjamin Trott

{{short description|American blogger}}
{{other people||Ben Trott (disambiguation)}}
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| known_for   = Co-founder of [[Six Apart]], creator of [[Movable Type]] and [[TypePad]]
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'''Benjamin Trott''' (born September 22, 1977) is a co-founder (with ex-wife [[Mena Trott]]) of [[Six Apart]], creator of [[Movable Type]] and [[TypePad]]. In November 2010, he became Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of SAY Media, a new online advertising and software company formed by a merger of ad network VideoEgg with Six Apart.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://blog.saymedia.com/2010/11/say-media-videoeggsix-apart-deal-is-closed.html| title=SAY Media: VideoEgg/Six Apart Deal is Closed| publisher=SAY Media| date=November 2010| accessdate=2010-12-01| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128094335/http://blog.saymedia.com/2010/11/say-media-videoeggsix-apart-deal-is-closed.html| archivedate=2010-11-28}}</ref>

Before joining SAY Media, Trott was also CTO of Six Apart. He is a regular contributor to [[CPAN]] (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and has written for [[Perl]].com and contributed to ''Essential Blogging''. In 2004, he was named to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [[Technology Review]] [[TR35|TR100]] as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2004 |title=2004 Young Innovators Under 35 |publisher=[[Technology Review]] | year=2004 | accessdate=August 15, 2011}}</ref>

==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>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://saymedia.com SAY Media]
* [http://sixapart.com/about/ About Six Apart]
* [http://ben.stupidfool.org/ stupidfool.org, Ben Trott's personal blog]

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