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Why Blogs Need To Be Social

(Posted on  GigaOM » Featured  about 1 month ago)

Earlier this week, San Francisco-based Six Apart released the newest version of its flagship product, Moveable Type Pro, and pushed the blogging community toward a very social future. It is not a new concept -- but now, it's time for blogs to… (visit source article)
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