Blogs
The complete greek blogging suite
George E. Papadakis
Head of Operations – Phaistos Networks S.A.
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Blogs
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History
First greek blogging suite
2002
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The new Path nder Blogs
 Beta launched in summer 2006
 Latest technologies & methodologies
 Multilingual
 100% In-house
 2.900 blogs to date
 Focus on Greek bloggers
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Key points
Usability
Security
+ Flexibility
Path nder Blogs
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Features
static pages
Collaboration posts
Find & replace
Custom domains
Tags Link Validation
link management
Spellchecker YouTube
Search Trackbacks
RTE Editor Statistics
CAPTCHA
Pingbacks
Twitter
Templates
Widgets
Moblogging
FlickR Lexicon
Alerts
Future posts Draft
Autosave Sticky posts
Shortcuts
Ban IP
Referrers Asynchronous le upload Import
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Hosted approach
 No installation
 High performance backend architecture
 High availability
 Automated backups
 Zero e ort upgrades
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Compose
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RTE Editor Instant entry
lookup
Spellchecker
Insert web image
Link validator
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Tags
 Multiple tags per post
 Tag library
 Tag clouds
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Post autosave
10 seconds autosave
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Other goodies
 Sticky posts
 Lexicon
 Entry history
 Instant access to stats
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Publish
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Publishing options
 Pblogs.gr
e.g. myblog.pblogs.gr
 Custom domain
e.g. myblog.com
 FTP server
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Present
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Prede ned templates
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Editing templates
Tag index/
Multiple
lookup
Prede ned
user –de ned
templates
templates
Real time Preview
On demand changes
save
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String Editor
Replace default strings
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Security
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Security
 Block search engines
 Block IPs / phrases
 Customizable comment form
 CAPTCHA
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Integration
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Importing entries
 Blogger.com
 Wordpress
 Movable Type
 Previous PBlogs version
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Integration examples
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Integration examples
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Integration examples
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Integration examples
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Power Tools
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Widgets
 Latest Comments
 Most Popular Posts
 FlickR Photos
 Latest Links
 Twitter Updates
 Polls
…
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My comments
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Statistics
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Moblogging
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Commercial Projects
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Commercial Projects
The next big thing
The next big thing
?
?
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Future
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Future Plans (1/3)
 New widgets / themes every day
 Statistics
 Backup & restore
 Code editor
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Future Plans (2/3)
 Templates modularization
 Seamless video integration UI
 Widget Gallery
 WYSIWYG Widget Editor
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Future Plans (3/3)
 Smilies & emoticons
 SMS new comments alerts
 …and many, many more
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Conclusion
 Daily new features
 Instant response to feedback
 User suggestions
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One more thing…
• Too many bloggers?
• Too many blogs posts to follow?
• Too much information?
Maybe we can help…
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Thank you!
A short Q&A session will follow
George E. Papadakis
Head of Operations – Phaistos Networks S.A.
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