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Monday, 10 June 2013
Friday, 17 May 2013
List of the alternatives to Blogspot and Wordpress & reviews
Blogspot and Wordpress are the most popular free hosting sites in the web.But there are loads more hosting sites which are free and upcoming.So here are some of those sites for you.Check them too you might find them useful.
PROS
Good for visual blogs and posts with minimal text. Good for beginners. Free.
CONSInterface could be much more utilitarian. Limited design controls for semi-experienced bloggers. Light on page elements. Some learning curve (or "getting used to" curve at least). Tiny text field. Unique domain names must be registered with another provider.
CONSInterface could be much more utilitarian. Limited design controls for semi-experienced bloggers. Light on page elements. Some learning curve (or "getting used to" curve at least). Tiny text field. Unique domain names must be registered with another provider.
BOTTOM LINE
Tumblr, a free blogging platform and hosting service, is a decent place for beginners and microbloggers to get their feet wet and post rapidly, although a too-graphical interface will slow down anyone who's new to the site, and lack of fine controls will frustrate more experienced bloggers.
PROS
Almost no learning curve. Excellent for mobile blogging. Includes options for a paid domain name, right within sign-up process. Great for beginners. Integrates well with social media.
CONSLight on page elements. Can't preview when posting by email. Controls are fairly light or require CSS knowledge?not much in between.
CONSLight on page elements. Can't preview when posting by email. Controls are fairly light or require CSS knowledge?not much in between.
BOTTOM LINE
Posterous, a free blogging platform, is an ideal place for beginners and microbloggers to get their feet wet and post rapidly. Experienced bloggers should stick to some of the more difficult-to-master tools that offer more control.
- twitter.(if you think about it it's the same format).
PROS
The original microblog with the largest audience. Easy to get started.
CONSSome interface elements unclear, as is the help. No search for posts.
BOTTOM LINE
The first big microblogging/moblogging site, Twitter boasts the largest audience among sites of its ilk. But some of the finer points of its operation, and its help, could stand some improvements in usability.
Xanga originated back in 1999 as a site for sharing book and music reviews. Driven by member preferences, it quickly morphed into a full-scale blog site, but it retains a marvelous ability to share reviews. Just name the song, movie, or book that interests you and Xanga grabs a link to Amazon.com, including a thumbnail of the cover. Xanga aggregates the links into a Top 50 list. Click the xTools button in the Links toolbar to comment on the site you're visiting, or post to your blog via e-mail. The attractive, fully WYSIWYG editor permits easy insertion of smileys, symbols, and links, and it automates the process of uploading and including images. You can try a free Xanga site, then upgrade to get more features and no ads.
It's easy to locate like-minded people among Xanga's 2.5 million users by checking out its blog rings. Members with similar interests can subscribe to one another's blogs (when someone subscribes or unsubscribes, you're notified). Xanga also gives the ability to subscribe without notification, a way to try a blog without risking offending the blogger by unsubscribing. Visitors can comment on your posts or give "eProps" to especially good ones.
enjoy!
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Review alternatives to Google Reader
Google was planning to kill Google Reader as part of a “spring cleaning exercise”.So now we have to look for alternatives to it.First let me describe the features of the Google Reader.
Google Reader is a lot more than an RSS client. It syncs news feeds between different apps, and makes sure you can always pick up right where you left off. It’s also simple and free, which means it drove most competitors out of the market long ago. Once Reader dies July 1st, we’ll be left with apps that don’t rely on its backend to sync your feeds — which isn't very many apps. Various denizens of the internet and companies like Digg have volunteered to create new backends of their own, but for now, picking an RSS client you can trust means you’ll need one that doesn’t rely on Google Reader.
“Hearing that Google Reader is shutting down is like hearing that your favorite old bookstore is closing,” writes The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman. So what are all the “absurdly ambitious readers” to do?.
So here are the alternatives to Google Reader for you -
Feedly has received mostly positive reviews. Many have praised its minimalist design and personalized interface.However, some have found the service relies too heavily on its minimalist approach, while others have stated that the degree of customization can be overwhelming for first time users.
NetNewsWire was well regarded by many users and reviewers. According to FeedBurner, NetNewsWire was the most popular desktop newsreader on all platforms in 2005. The software received a Macworld Editor's Choice Award in 2003 and 2005 and maintains a 4.8 out of five stars rating among reviewers at VersionTracker. Ars Technica calls NetNewsWire's built-in browser "hands-down the best of any Mac newsreader," and Walter Mossberg, technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, says that NetNewsWire is his favorite for Mac OS X.
following an announcement by Google that they would be shutting down their popular Google Reader news reader service, NewsBlur's subscriber base immediately rose from about 1,500 users to over 60,000.
- A user-friendly web service.
- Lets you stay up-to-date with your RSS feeds.
- Resembles the old Google Reader interface.
- Lets you add friends and view the feed entries they shared.
Netvibes is a personalized dashboard publishing platform for the Web composed of widgets that are pulled from a widget list open to third party developers.
Pulse is an app for Android, iOS and HTML5 browsers, originally released in 2010. The application displays news from multiple RSS feeds in a single page using a tile based interface. Pulse has been praised by users for its sleek, easy to use design
Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Users can subscribe to the syndicated feeds for free using a web browser. Bloglines offers an application programming interface that maintainers of web site can use to write software that can read feeds, search its database of feed entries, and ping the service when a website has been updated.
Good Noows is another app that takes your favorite feeds and organizes them into a special layout (although this time you get a choice of what layout!).
Good Noows is a personal news reader that pulls in your favorite news feeds to a layout of your choice. Some critics have touted the service as being a viable alternative to Google News whilst others say that Good Noows is a fresh face to your news.
- Zite.
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