For example, a TypePad profile is able to display the user's status on the microblogging service Twitter and display a list of the person's latest comments across TypePad blogs.

"Now as a blogger you can give your readers a meaningful profile," Alden said. "It's all about helping to connect the bloggers with their readers and with other bloggers in a more substantial way."

Six Apart is also adding a new system for managing and monitoring blog comments that has a control panel interface and features things like e-mail notifications of replies to comments, as well as the ability to reply via e-mail.

Finally, Six Apart is introducing in beta mode TypePad Connect, which extends TypePad Profiles and the commenting feature to publishers in other competing platforms like Wordpress and Google's Blogger for free.

"This ties into the things we've been focusing on: revamping TypePad for the next generation but also extending the TypePad service to interconnect into a broader base of bloggers," Alden said.