It’s getting easier and easier to blog these days.
Glogster is a flash-based blogging platform that integrates social networking and blogging. The UI is pretty easy to get the hang of, and the bright colors make it attractive to play around with.
One cool feature is that you can win an iPod and a $50 iTunes gift card if you invite people or participate in the community.
You can even embed these “posters”, or glogs, on your own site. Here is one from the user caseface123:
Arrington calls it a new Geocities, but I think it’s a lot better.
Glogster will succeed with folks that are sick of the usual Facebook and MySpace. You can easily build a mosiac of new media objects, and share them with friends and family with a few clicks.
Try it out if you want, your favorite username may still be available.
I am making my second “glog” right now, but I am noticing a few bugs.
- When uploading an image, it doesn’t show up automatically. You gotta close the uploader, and then click Image again.
- Sometimes when you save and publish and change the name of the glog, it doesn’t work. You have to change the name of the URL.
- It doesn’t save in Safari. I just lost 15 minutes of time
Later this afternoon, I just published a new glog using Firefox about San Francisco tag art:
What do you think of Glogster?
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Hi there! I see you’ve managed to embed glogster posters on a wordpress-based site! I’m using a free wordpress account, and I’m stuck over the embedding of the glog into my posts. Could you tell me how?
Thank you loads and loads!
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