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Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications. The features are:

• WYSIWYG and HTML editing
• Built-in, powerful media database
• Multiple authors, configurable permission/usergroup system
• Threaded comments, nested categories, post to multiple categories
• Multiple languages (internationalization)
• Online plugin and template repository for easy plug-and-play installation
• Cool plugins: category-based sub-blogs, podcasting, RSS planet/aggregator, static pages
• Robust spam blocking
• One-click upgrading from any version
• Can be embedded into your existing web pages
• Standards-compliant templating through Smarty, remote blogging via XML-RPC
• BSD-style licensing
• Multiple Database support (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi)
• Shared installations can power multiple blogs from just one codebase
• Native import from earlier blog applications (WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, etc.)

Pivot is a tool, written in PHP, to create weblogs and other dynamic websites. Pivot is Free (as in beer speech), and easy to use. Because you place the software on your webserver, you do not need any tools on your own computer, but you can use all of Pivot’s functionality through your web browser. This way you can use your Pivot from wherever you like, once you have it up and running. Pivot requires no additional libraries to run, nor any databases like MySql. This is because we want to make a tool that is useable by as many people as possible. Some of the features of Pivot are:

1. Sophisticated Categories/Weblogs system, so you can maintain several weblogs and publish your entries how you like
2. Template based. Fully adaptable to your wishes;
3. Built in simple search tool.
4. Keeps simple statistics of how your visitors came to your site;
5. Easy to upload and include pictures with your log-entries;
6. Allows for making thumbnails of uploaded images;
7. Comment system that remembers your visitors (if they wish);
8. Automagically creates RSS- and Atom-feeds;
9. IP-blocking,to prevent certain people from leaving comments;
10. Automagic Archiving by week or month, and/or by category;
11. Optionally supports full wysiwyg editing of your posts (IE5.5+ on windows and Mozilla 1.3+ / FB 0.6+ on all Platforms);
12. Supports Textile, both in entries and in comments;
13. No external databases are required, just plain PHP. This is to ensure Pivot runs on as many servers as possible.
14. Makes valid xhtml, when possible.

With particle blogger you can setup a blog on your own website, installed within minutes using Particle Blogger’s easy installer. The features are:

• Easy to Install: Get your blog up and running in minutes
• Intergrated RSS: Offer visitors an RSS feed automatically
• Friendly URLs: Make URLs static using Apache’s mod_rewrite
• Rich Text Editor: Make great blog posts without having to know HTML
• Flexible: Customise amount of articles on the homepage, menu, RSS feed
• Tags: Categorise your posts using the tags you create
• Archives: Posts automatically grouped and browsable by month
• Skinable: Easily change the look, comes with 3 premade templates
• Multiple Users: Full user management, user levels (users, admins), profile editing

Requirements:

• PHP 4.x or 5.x [ PHP ]
• MySQL 4 or 5 [ MySQL ]

NewsBruiser is a simple but feature-packed system for writing weblogs. It’s easy to set up, easy to use, it won’t make you install a lot of other software, and it’s free. Features are:

1. Simple web-based installation and setup
2. Easily import entries from other tools (eg. Moveable Type, Manila) or RSS feeds
3. Customizable through CSS and a simple templating system
4. Several prepackaged themes
5. Categories
6. Draft entries
7. RSS syndication
8. Trackback
9. Integrated Creative Commons licensing
10. Easy to use
11. Easy to extend

MobiLog is an incredibly useful open source tool for moblogging (mobile weblogging). It works like this: Once set up, you simply send an email using your cell phone (or other mobile device, such as a PDA) to a specified email address. Within minutes, whatever you sent will automatically appear on your site. With support for image attachments, you can even use your cell phone’s built-in camera to post a picture online – without the need to be at your computer. Moblogging is an increasingly popular way to keep your site’s visitors in touch with what you are doing while away from the computer. Most current mobloggers are hobbyists or journalists, with the relative lack of easy-to-use tools keeping moblogging out of the mainstream. The goal of MobiLog is to make it easier for anyone to maintain a mobile weblog while on the road. Your web host will also need to provide you with cron scheduler support and a POP3 email account. Most can provide this without any problems. If you wish to post from remote, you will need an email-capable portable device such as a cell phone.
MobiLog was designed to be installed on a Unix/Linux-based server, and currently does not work on other platforms.

Features of Mobilog:

• Mobile submission of moblog entries from any email-capable device (cell phone, PDA,etc).
• Entry submission security (ie. password protection).
• PHP-based moblog entry archive.
• GIF/JPEG/PNG image support.
• Thumbnail creation using ImageMagick (optional).
• Atom v1.0 feed generation.

Requirements: MobiLog requires MySQL v4.1.1, Perl v5.8 and PHP v4.2. It also requires recent versions of the following Perl modules:

• DBI
• Mail::POP3Client
• Mail::Internet
• Mail::Address
• MIME::Parser
• MIME::WordDecoder