Six Apart's Blogging Software and Services to Support Palm Foleo Mobile Companion

Six Apart, the world’s leading independent blogging software and services company, is working with Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) to give Palm® Foleo™ mobile companion customers access to Six Apart’s wide range of blogging services, including Vox, LiveJournal, TypePad and Movable Type. With these services available on the Foleo, users can keep blog and journal entries up to date and stay current with their communities while on the go.(1) [NOTE: Palm announced the Foleo mobile companion on May 30. Video and images are available from Palm’s Multimedia Library (www.palm.com/MultimediaLibrary) and from Business Wire (http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=5410999).] The Palm Foleo mobile companion is for people who understand that sometimes less is more. With the press of one button, the mobile companion’s large screen displays wireless email from a paired smartphone. A smartphone is great for finding quick bits of information or sending a brief response to an email, but there are times when a full-size keyboard and a big screen is preferred to view attachments, type longer emails, or to get a bigger-screen look at web pages and photos. Plus, Internet access is available anywhere there is cell phone coverage, or when the Foleo is within range of a Wi-Fi hotspot.(1) With Foleo’s instant on/off capability, light weight and small size, and 5-hour battery life, Palm expects the mobile companion to establish a new category of personal-computing products. "It’s vitally important for our business and individual customers to have access to their blogs and journals,” said Aaron Emigh, executive vice president and general manager of core technology for Six Apart. "Our work with Palm allows our customers to keep their content fresh and current with the latest in mobile technology.” Six Apart Software and Services Vox is a free personal online service for sharing experiences with friends and family. Rich privacy filters give members granular control over who views their stories, photos, videos or audio. Rich media integration means members can insert content seamlessly and easily from popular web services they already use, such as Amazon, Flickr and Photobucket. With hundreds of beautiful designs, Vox makes connecting with friends and family easy, accessible and fun. LiveJournal has attracted a passionate and prolific community of over 13 million since it was founded in 1999. LiveJournal members share their thoughts in words and media both in personal journals and explore diverse interests throughout LiveJournal’s rich communities. TypePad is the award-winning hosted blogging service preferred by professionals, small businesses, and enthusiasts. TypePad provides a rich set of features for publishing, updating and sharing information on the web. No installation or configuration is required. TypePad blogs are fully hosted and managed by Six Apart. Movable Type is the first blogging platform of choice for businesses, enterprises, and professionals. Designed to meet the website content-management needs of growing organizations and to serve as a social media platform that enables businesses to create community-driven websites, Movable Type is flexible, extensible, and easy to maintain. Users install and configure Movable Type on their own, or subscribe to it from a web-hosting service. By building the Foleo on an open Linux-based platform and publishing the tools developers might need, Palm hopes to establish a vibrant developer community to create new applications that extend the mobile companion’s built-in capabilities. Six Apart demonstrates the ease with which exciting technology and applications can be ported to the Palm Foleo mobile companion. "Today’s customers are doing much more with their mobile devices, including staying in touch with online communities,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president of business development for Palm, Inc. "Six Apart’s blogging applications take advantage of Foleo’s large screen and easy-to-use interface, making it simple for customers to take photos with their Treo™ smartphone, upload them to their blogs, then use the Foleo to edit and add text. For more information on Six Apart services, please visit www.sixapart.com. For more information on the Foleo mobile companion, please visit www.palm.com/seefoleo. To sign up for notification about Foleo availability, please visit www.palm.com/foleonotify. Price and Availability Applications for the Foleo mobile companion will be sold separately. U.S. pricing and application availability will be announced in conjunction with Foleo availability later this summer. About Six Apart Six Apart Ltd. is the world’s leading independent blogging software and services company, enhancing the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate every day. Founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart is a global company with headquarters in San Francisco, and offices in Europe and Japan. The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type publishing platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service, LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals and communities, and Vox, a free blogging service for friends and families. For more information visit the Six Apart corporate web site at http://www.sixapart.com/. About Palm, Inc. Palm, Inc., a leader in mobile computing, strives to put the power of computing in people’s hands so they can access and share their most important information from anywhere. The company’s products for consumers, mobile professionals and businesses include Palm® Treo™ smartphones, Palm Foleo™ mobile companions and Palm handheld computers, as well as software, services and accessories. Palm products are sold through select Internet, retail, reseller and wireless operator channels throughout the world, and at Palm Retail Stores and Palm online stores (http://www.palm.com/store). More information about Palm, Inc. is available at http://www.palm.com. (1) Requires compatible phone with Bluetooth wireless technology. Email requires data services from a mobile service provider at an additional cost. ISP and/or VPN may also be required. Within wireless service coverage area only. A dial-up networking plan from a service provider may be required at an incremental cost above and beyond the service provider’s regular smartphone data plans. Also, a social media news release version of today’s announcement is available at http://socialnews.palm.com/. The social media news release contains "Web 2.0” features, including subscription via RSS, multimedia downloads, commenting, track-backing, links to social bookmark sites and other resources. Palm, Treo and Foleo are among the trademarks or registered trademarks owned by or licensed to Palm, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.