We just celebrated four months of TypePad AntiSpam doing what it does best: Working quietly in the background to keep the junk off of your site. To mark the milestone of millions of spurious comments having been spurned, we thought we'd catch you up a little bit on what's been going on in the TypePad AntiSpam world.
First, TyepPad AntiSpam got some nice coverage from bloggers and the press:
CMSWire says Six Apart Challenges Akismet on the AntiSpam Front: "Watchout Akismet…here comes TypePad AntiSpam. Six Apart is known for creating great working platforms as well as apps and plugins for a variety of other platforms. With the recent release of a blogging anti-spam plugin, they are proving yet again that they are here to stay as the competition heats up on the social web."
InformationWeek says Can the Spam: "The new kid on the block is TypePad AntiSpam. TypePad AntiSpam is just a few weeks old, but it's already garnered some very positive reviews."
And Weblog Tools Collection brought the message of free, open source antispam to the WordPress community with Hot or Not: TypePad AntiSpam: "The product is being tested by quite a few bloggers and has already received positive feedback for effectiveness from big names such as Michael Arrington of TechCrunch"
Of course, it's just as gratifying to see the responses of the sites that are actually using the service. TechCrunch's early and enthusiastic rave for TypePad AntiSpam set the stage, but huge blogs on every platform like ProBlogger have jumped on board. It's not just for big blogs, of course — regular bloggers like Myo Kyaw Htun have weighed in: "Last couple of months, I noticed that Akismet failed to prevent spam comments, trackbacks and pingbacks for my wordpress blog. Then I switched to Typepad Antispam as a test. I’m very pleased that it does pretty well and probably does better than Akismet."
Perhaps the most comprehensive comparison comes from Andrew Watson at Changing Way, whose extensive chart offers some great ways to contrast TypePad AntiSpam with the competition. (Only one service has a "yes" under "Open source engine" and a "yes" under "Free for commercial use"!)
Lastly, we haven't forgotten about our developer audience. We're happy to help more platforms adopt TypePad AntiSpam integration, or to update their Akismet implementations to support this new, free, open source alternative. Marcus Ramberg, a driving force behind popular Perl-based programming framework Catalyst, wrote Using TypePad AntiSpam with the Catalyst framework, and we're hoping to see more such adoption in the future.
