Interactivity & Social Networking

Friendships - You can list each other as friends, and display your friend lists on your profiles. You can also give your friends special privileges, like access to your private blogs.

Private Messages - Bloggers can send each other private messages, which you can read from your message inbox.

Friends Page - Yourblogs may include a "friends' recent entries" page, which displays the recent blog entries posted by your friends.

Browse Users - Bloggers can use the "browse" page to browse all the users on your blog network. This can be filtered by information such as location, age, gender, interest, etc.

Avatars - You can upload small photos of yourself, which appear on the blog, profile, and next to your username in search/browse results.

Media Features

Photo Albums - Each blogger can upload photos to your own photo album, which is linked from your blogs and your profiles. Photos can be given titles and descriptions, and thumbnails are automatically generated for easy browsing.

Podcasts - Bloggers can upload MP3 or other audio files to a special folder in your file manager. You can easily podcast these files by clicking a single link and writing a blog entry.

Blog Features

WYSIWYG Composer - When writing entries, you can take advantage of the easy-to-use WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) entry composer. This allows bloggers to add styles, fonts, colors, and images to your entries with no knowledge of HTML. You can upload images and insert them in the entry you are working on with ease. Advanced bloggers can click the HTML checkbox and view your entry's HTML source.

Podcasts - Bloggers can attach a Podcast URL to your entries.

Trackbacks - Bloggers can attach a Trackback URL to your entries.

Comments - Bloggers can choose whether or not your want to allow comments on your entries, and if you do want comments, who should be able to post them.

Templates - Bloggers can choose from any of the blog templates provided. Over 20 templates are included now.

Template Editing - Bloggers can edit your blog template's HTML code to personalize your blogs.

Calendars - Your blogs can display calendars, illustrating when you have posted entries.

Archives - Each blog has an archive page that lists the dates of all the entries that belong to the blog.

Permanant Links - Each entry has a permanant link, which is important for bookmarking and search engine indexing.

RSS Feeds - Each blog can have its own RSS feed for easy syndication.

Instant Publishing - When you post entries or comments, they appear instantly on your blogs.

Preview Entry - Bloggers can preview your entries or comments before posting.

Customizable Date/Time - You can customize the date and time of your entries.

Draft Entries - You can post entries as drafts and publish them at a later time.