The three platforms we’ll be releasing Blogvio on, as written in the title of this article, are WP, TypePad/MovableType and Blogger/Blogspot. I must admit I was really confused by these services when I first started to research on them.
Let me give you some hints if you plan on using one or the other, but I strongly suggest you go with WP, the self hosted service. You can thank me later. ;-)
WordPress.com/WordPress.org
WordPress is the most popular blogging platform online – both the free, hosted version (at wordpress.com) and the free CMS you download and install on your own server (at wordpress.org). It’s easy to use and the admin panel is also very convenient thanks to AJAX technology.
Known blogs:
- http://www.techcrunch.com (self hosted)
- http://zainabdullah.wordpress.com/
Movable Type/TypePad
The main difference between the two is that TypePad is a fee-based hosted service and Movable Type is software that you license to run on your own server or web host. This is similar to WordPress (.com and .org).
Known blogs:
- http://www.boingboing.net (self hosted)
- http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Blogger/Blogspot
The service itself is located at www.blogger.com, and blogs that do not publish to their own websites are hosted for free by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com (it redirects to Blogger).
It offers no software instalation as WordPress.org or MovableType.org. Google gives a way for bloggers to use their own domains though.
Google also allows for FTP publishing, which means the files posted by a user will be uploaded to that user’s FTP. Confusing, right? :-)
Known blogs: