SixApart Launch Motion
Anil Dash has a post over on the MT site about their latest "cool toy" - Motion for Movable Type
Anil's post goes into quite a bit of detail about how 6Apart expect Motion to be developed and used.
It's currently beta software in the true sense ie. it can and probably will break stuff, so don't try "upgrading" an existing install of MT to use it - seriously! MT's product manager Chris Hall explained in an email last night:
The install is similar to the normal MT install process, so nothing new there.
Action Streams are fully incorporated and, while some services could be improved on, work pretty much "out of the tin". On a related note - if you're trying to setup Flickr in MT you may find this site useful.
For the first time since they introduced it I've been able to get my profile picture to work properly - small victories can be so rewarding!
The post edit screen now includes some really nice and easy links to help you post multimedia content:
Adding an image isn't that hard in the current interface, for example, but the new functions really come into their own when you want to incorporate multimedia - such as YouTube.
Of course the real fun stuff with Motion is the ability to combine profiles and actions from other existing services both in your published content and also in terms of allowing users to authenticate easily against your install.
Admittedly I haven't had a chance to really put Motion through its paces, but it will be very interesting to see how it develops over the coming weeks and months
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Anil's post goes into quite a bit of detail about how 6Apart expect Motion to be developed and used.
It's currently beta software in the true sense ie. it can and probably will break stuff, so don't try "upgrading" an existing install of MT to use it - seriously! MT's product manager Chris Hall explained in an email last night:
... is a beta version of the next version of MT Pro,4.25*, which will include Motion. The Motion plugin required changes to core, so it is not compatible with 4.23 or earlier versions of MT. We are also not advising upgrades from prior versions to Motion at this time, as we've not tested those scenarios. (Of course, if you are really curious, you are welcome to try, but as always when upgrading, BACK UP YOUR DATABASE FIRST.)He added in a further email:
This release bundles the new Facebook Connect Commenters plugin,which we are releasing separately for MT 4.23 tomorrow. This plugin allows users to sign in with their Facebook account to comment on MT blogs, and also gives them the option of publishing their comment to their Facebook news feed, which can help give your blog visibility to the Facebook community, if that's something you desire. The Motion releases also adds many additional OpenID commenting options to MT, including AOL, Yahoo!, Google and WordPress.com.I've setup a test install here (likely to be broken and reinstalled quite a bit)
The install is similar to the normal MT install process, so nothing new there.
Action Streams are fully incorporated and, while some services could be improved on, work pretty much "out of the tin". On a related note - if you're trying to setup Flickr in MT you may find this site useful.
For the first time since they introduced it I've been able to get my profile picture to work properly - small victories can be so rewarding!
The post edit screen now includes some really nice and easy links to help you post multimedia content:
Adding an image isn't that hard in the current interface, for example, but the new functions really come into their own when you want to incorporate multimedia - such as YouTube.Of course the real fun stuff with Motion is the ability to combine profiles and actions from other existing services both in your published content and also in terms of allowing users to authenticate easily against your install.
Admittedly I haven't had a chance to really put Motion through its paces, but it will be very interesting to see how it develops over the coming weeks and months
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I tried to upgrade existing MT installation and run into utf8 character encoding mysql bug. I am trying to keep everything in UTF8, so I am waiting for fix. Beta is beta.
Alexander
They are not recommending upgrades, as I mentioned
Michele