Posts Tagged with ‘blogging-platform’

It looks like the world financial crisis is providing us tons of new materials to cover with companies inventing new and more promising ways to monetize their services looking for additional revenue sources. The latest examples included an interesting idea by Calgoo to monetize online calendars via the so-called in-calendar marketing and Ma.gnolia trying to charge users for the social bookmarking service. Today it is LiveJournal with an interesting new idea that will probably change the way we think about [...]

Profy has finally launched our very own blogging platform in alpha. We have been developing it here in Russia for more than a year now and the alpha release is a very important step. We were sitting and waiting nervously for the first reviews after the embargo was lifted and I think I will post links to some of the first reviews here to cordially thank all the bloggers.
Crenk was the first to break the story though I was a [...]

Profy is building something exciting for the tech-savvy crowd. The Profy development team is at work on a very large-scale Web 2.0 project to be launched in public beta later this year. It's an advanced blogging platform with an integrated powerful RSS reader enhanced by social featured. The application will drastically change the way we blog and read our news.
At the moment, the product is in strictly private beta and we're looking for a strong team of early testers [...]

Movable Type, a “publishing platform” created by the folks at SixApart, has been released in 4.0 form – and it’s going to have its source code open for all to see in a few months.
It's about time.
SixApart will be throwing Movable Type into the OSS (open source software) ring around the end of Q3 ‘07, and with version four packed with “more than 50 new features, including a new installation and upgrade wizard, easier and more powerful [...]

Amidst pressure and even torture - liberal Egyptians struggle to be heard! Let Our Bloggers Go!
I wrote a post on the 24thabout an Egyptian blogger who was sentenced to prison for criticizing the power structure in Egypt. Abdel Kareem Suleiman was imprisoned for 4 years after al-Azhar University filed a complaint about 8 articles he posted on his blog karam903 back in 2004. Suleiman was found guilty of promoting extremist thought after calling President Mubarak a dictatorial Pharaoh.
The latest news from Egypt [...]

Web 2.0 is an action platform and should direct technology towards our most pressing needs! There's serious, and then there is SERIOUS!
My job here at Profy is to report on significant (and sometimes insignificant) Web 2.0 technology. Our goal - my goal, is to be honest, fair and impartial about the subjects we write about so that you guys will get an honest “heads up” on happenings in our little world. Sometimes we all need to focus our resources [...]

 
Terapad.com announced that their all in one Web 2.0 blogging solution will be offered for free. Terapad.com is the only blogging community that offers Paypal™-ready shop. The site also provides a blogging platform that is simple to set up, while possessing advanced features that appeal to power bloggers and amatuers alike. 
Terapad provides 2 gigabytes of storage, discussion forums, a free image gallery, and content management integrated into a neat, easy to use environment. Steven Tual, Director of Sitejourney, the company behind Terapad, [...]

LiveJournal is a hosted blog solution from SixApart, the same company that also provides TypePad, Movable Type, and a new offering called Vox. SixApart???s web site indicates the focus ??? TypePad and Movable Type being offered for professional and business blogging, Vox for personal blogs ??? and LiveJournal for a community of bloggers.
Not surprisingly, the key highlight of LiveJournal is the ability to form and manage a community of blogs; people who choose to blog on a common set of [...]

 
Blogger is one of the oldest blog platforms around, whereas Wordpress is among the newer ones. Nevertheless, Wordpress has been gaining users and popularity; part of it may be due to the free / open source nature of the offering, but the range of features coupled with the ease of use is probably a key driver.
This review is based on testing the free hosted service at Wordpress.com, not the software download at Wordpress.org that’s used for self-hosted sites. Technically, there [...]