Criterias for Weblog Service Providing

Markus K. Westner, the co-founder of Blogigo.de, published his Master Dissertation on weblogs, especially on the identification of functional requirements and evaluation of existing weblog services in German and English languages.

[…] Based on literature and interviews, the report identifies and ranks functional requirements for weblog services from a user’s perspective. 29 of these requirements are considered to be the most significant ones. They are categorised according to the content creation process on weblogs using the categories „Community”, „Content Creation”, „Content Management”, „Content Interaction”, „Content Rendering”, and „Security”. […]

He evaluated 77 weblog services to create his criterias based on the detailed features and functionality implemented into the different software packages.

[…] As one of the key results, it becomes obvious that the most popular services implement more features than their less popular competitors. Thus, the features offered by a weblog service seem to have an impact on its acceptance. […]

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