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How does eponym.com compare with other blog hosting sites?
Home » Blogs » Eponym » How does eponym.com compare with other blog hosting sites?Posted by Your Guide on July 12, 2006 7:43 PM
Eponym compares itself with three other blog hosting sites: Blogger, Movable Type, and Typepad. The results are as follows:
Postings--The areas compared under this section are:
1. Post via browser
2. Post via desktop application
3. One-click posting
4. Post to past and future
5. Keywords
6. Built-in music, movie and book review entries
7. Sticky post (stays at top of the blog)
8. WYSIWYG Editor
9. Formatting buttons
10. Can save to draft
11. Spell check
12. Archive by individual post
13. Archive by day/week/month/year
14. Supports Blogger API
15. Supports MetaWeblog API
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does all of these
Blogger--Does not offer 5, 6, 7, or 15
Movable Type--Does not offer 6, or 7
Typepad--Does not offer 6 or 7
Categories--The areas compared under this section are:
1. Supports categories
2. Subcategories
3. Categories can have their own appearance
4. Posts can be associated with more than one category
5. Permissions system to read/post to categories
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does all of these
Blogger--Does none of these
Movable Type--Does all of these
Typepad--Does not offer 2, 4, or 5
Comments/Visitor Interaction--The areas compared under this section are:
1. Anonymous comments
2. Contact info for anonymous comments
3. Authenticated comments
4. Registered readers
5. Member profiles
6. Karma/rating voting
7. Polls
8. Comment moderation
9. Trackback moderation
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does not offer 6 or 7
Blogger--Does not offer 4, 5, 7, or 9
Movable Type--Does not offer 7
Typepad--Does not offer 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9
Mobile Blogging (Moblogging)--The areas compared under this section are:
1. Post via email/moblogging
2. Post photos via moblogging
3. Allow post to originate from multiple email addresses
4. Support MIME and MMS attachments
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does all of these
Blogger--Does not offer 3
Movable Type--Does not offer 1 or 3
Typepad--Does not offer 3
Photo Albums--The areas compared under this section are:
1. Photo album capability
2. Built-in image resizing on upload and edit
3. Built-in 90-degree image rotation on edit
4. Image thumbnail
5. Custom album design and layout
6. WYSIWYG editor for photo descriptions
7. Slideshow tool
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does all of these
Blogger--Does not offer 1, 4, 5, 6, or 7
Movable Type--Does not offer 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, or 7
Typepad--Does not offer 3, 6, or 7; 2, 4, and 5 are available for a fee
Look and Feel--The areas compared under this section are:
1. Pre-designed styles
2. Visual layout editor
3. Customizable style sheets
4. Customizable template content
5. Template tags
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does all of these
Blogger--Does not offer 2, 4, or 5
Movable Type--Does all of these
Typepad--Does all of these
Spam Fighting Tools--The areas compared under this section are:
1. IP banning of commenters
2. Captcha protection
3. Author access log
4. URL no follow support
5. Blacklist
6. Comment/trackback notification
7. Comment/trackback moderation
8. Identifying potential comment and trackback spam
9. Publisher firewall
10. Global blacklist
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does all of these
Blogger--Does not offer 1, 3, 4, 8, or 9
Movable Type--Does not offer 3 or 10
Typepad--Does not offer 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, or 10
Syndication--The areas compared under this section are:
1. RSS 0.91
2. RSS 1.0
3. RSS 2.0
4. Atom
5. Trackbacks
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does all of these
Blogger--Does not offer 1, 2, or 5
Movable Type--Does not offer 1
Typepad--Does not offer 1, 3, or 5
Publicity (Ping)--The areas compared under this section are:
1. Weblogs.com
2. Blo.gs
3. Blogrolling.com
4. Technorati.com
5. Pubsub
6. Yahoo
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does all of these
Blogger--Does not offer 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6
Movable Type--Does not offer 3, 5, or 6
Typepad--Does not offer 3, 5, or 6
Site Statistics--The areas compared under this section are:
1. Page hit/impression statistics
2. Referrer log
3. Transfer Reporting
4. Browser Summary
5. Most Commented Articles
6. Most Popular Articles
7. Downloadable Apache weblog
The comparisons are as follows:
Eponym--Does all of these
Blogger--Does none of these
Movable Type--Does not offer 3, 4, 6, or 7
Typepad--Does not offer 3, 4, or 7
Sources:
www.eponym.com
www.fun-with-words.com
www.blogger.com
www.typepad.com
www.movabletype.com
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