Blogger's Choice Awards 2009 is now accepting nominations and votes for next year's winners and I voted for Multiply as Best Blogging Host. I've been using Multiply since the day I got my first taste of the internet (it's kinda famous in the Philippines) and it never failed me. So why am I posting this on blogger? This is my public blog - my multiply is my social blog where I put more personal posts - more like my online journal.
So, I'm campaigning for Multiply - as a blogging host - but more of why it hosts personal blogs better than most other hosts. One of the biggest plus to Multiply's side are the privacy features. In multiply, you can control who can view your blog down to selected individuals. This is great for people who value the privacy and security of the content they post on the internet. Another plus to Multiply is their highly customizable news feed. You can filter posts by content, user, unread posts, comments to your posts or even through a custom filter.
Multiply has always been likened to Facebook - I beg to disagree. First, the features we see on Facebook, the feeds, the design and such, Multiply precedes them. Multiply's version of those features might be even better. People called Multiply as having sour grapes when they claimed that Facebook looks a lot like Multiply. Fact is, they're merely pointing out that Facebook has no right to sue studiVZ because they themselves copied the "look, feel, features, and services" of Multiply themselves. Second is that Facebook is a true social networking service - they're focused on connecting people and they devote their market to having as many users as possible. Multiply is more on the sharing content side. You can even consider Multiply as "blogging plus photo- and video-sharing."
And that brings me to another point on why you should vote for Multiply. Most blog hosts feature one page for the blog plus a sidebar for the widgets. With Multiply, you get a separate page for Photos, Videos, a Linklog, a Sideblog, a Reviews column and several others. Most other blogs are one-dimensional - only Multiply features photo and video embeds. While Multiply is no doubt on of the best private blog hosting sites on the web, Multiply also allows broadcasting to everyone in the world. Multiply also has one of the largest collection of hosted themes for their users - on the official Customized Themes group. Plus, the interface is simple and very easy to use, with most of its features clearly visible to everyone's eyes. This is compared to other blog hosts which are cluttered, complicated and the features that would otherwise make the host great rather hidden.
Multiply is the world's first and largest integrated blog/video/photo host. It is one of the most flexible and customizable hosts on the web. Vote for it: http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/2441
So, I'm campaigning for Multiply - as a blogging host - but more of why it hosts personal blogs better than most other hosts. One of the biggest plus to Multiply's side are the privacy features. In multiply, you can control who can view your blog down to selected individuals. This is great for people who value the privacy and security of the content they post on the internet. Another plus to Multiply is their highly customizable news feed. You can filter posts by content, user, unread posts, comments to your posts or even through a custom filter.
Multiply has always been likened to Facebook - I beg to disagree. First, the features we see on Facebook, the feeds, the design and such, Multiply precedes them. Multiply's version of those features might be even better. People called Multiply as having sour grapes when they claimed that Facebook looks a lot like Multiply. Fact is, they're merely pointing out that Facebook has no right to sue studiVZ because they themselves copied the "look, feel, features, and services" of Multiply themselves. Second is that Facebook is a true social networking service - they're focused on connecting people and they devote their market to having as many users as possible. Multiply is more on the sharing content side. You can even consider Multiply as "blogging plus photo- and video-sharing."
And that brings me to another point on why you should vote for Multiply. Most blog hosts feature one page for the blog plus a sidebar for the widgets. With Multiply, you get a separate page for Photos, Videos, a Linklog, a Sideblog, a Reviews column and several others. Most other blogs are one-dimensional - only Multiply features photo and video embeds. While Multiply is no doubt on of the best private blog hosting sites on the web, Multiply also allows broadcasting to everyone in the world. Multiply also has one of the largest collection of hosted themes for their users - on the official Customized Themes group. Plus, the interface is simple and very easy to use, with most of its features clearly visible to everyone's eyes. This is compared to other blog hosts which are cluttered, complicated and the features that would otherwise make the host great rather hidden.
Multiply is the world's first and largest integrated blog/video/photo host. It is one of the most flexible and customizable hosts on the web. Vote for it: http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/2441
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