Forrester’s blogging platforms wave evaluation shows that WordPress, Six Apart’s Movable Type and iUpload are three leaders in blog software. TypePad, another product from Six Apart, with Drupal, Telligent Systems and Traction Software follow as strong performers. UserLand Software, TypePad and Movable Type have the strongest market share though.

Six Apart has released Movable Type version 3.3, which includes improvements of plug-in and plug-in upgrade, more reliable junk feedback auto-expiration, a fix for possible splogger exploit and others. At the same time of the release was a new line of product: Movable Type Enterprise. As the name implies, it is intended for large deployments in enterprises.

Social media sites are among the fastest-growing Web brands, according to the latest study by Nielsen NetRatings. User-generated content sites and platforms for photo sharing, video sharing and blogging, comprised five out of the top 10 fastest growing Web brands in July 2006.

WordPress — the blogware for this blog and of favorite to lots of us — now will automatically save your drafts. It means you don’t have to press Save and Continue Editing everytime you want to save as draft. This happens on the background but you can see WordPress saves your draft every so often via a small notification message next to the Save button. Draft pages are available on the Manage menu. Gmail users should be familiar with similar feature when composing new mails.