Expression Engine

expression engine

expression engine

(http://www.expressionengine.com) supports a lot of features, so it is actually more than a blog engine; sometimes it is called a web publishing engine by its developers.
Even when you compare ExpressionEngine with other CMSs with its features, it will obtain a higher rank. ExpressionEngine is sleek, powerful, and documented very well by its developers. It has tons of features and modules. ExpressionEngine is a commercial and costly blogging tool (better say an advanced CMS), which also supports a very restricted free version with minimal features. Moreover, its administration panel is quite complicated, which can be daunting to learn for beginners and non-technical bloggers. ExpressionEngine also lacks plug-ins, themes, and a huge user community.

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Six Apart

six apart

six apart

Six Apart (http://www.sixapart.com/) is another company that deals with blogging. It developed several popular blogging engines some of which are free while some are not.


Among them, MovableType is a very popular blogging engine. MovableType sets the standards for many blogging features and develops one of the three popular blogging APIs (MovableType, MetaWeblog, and Blogger API). The other blogging engines developed by SixApart are Vox (www.vox.com), TypePad(www.typepad.com), and liveJournal (www.livejournal.com/). Among these, LiveJournal is very popular. You would be surprised if you see some of the statistics of LiveJournal. It is a hosted free blogging engine that has more than 96 million accounts among which 19 million are active. The number of posts per hour is above 18000.

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MSN Live Spaces

msn live spaces

msn live spaces

MSN spaces (http://spaces.live.com/) is the blogging tool introduced by the software giant, Microsoft in December, 2004. This blog is integrated with MSN Messenger and features a photo gallery, capability to SMS content from mobile phones, and integration with MyMSN. There are plenty of features that are not particularly suited for just blogging, but rather for social communication and personalization. MSN spaces serve advertisements in their blogs and the entire blog engine is a little heavyweight.

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