Netease launched new blog service

Written by Luyi Chen on September 2, 2006
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Netease blog service launched today. It’s formerly Netease bulo, which is going to be transferred to the new blog service and taken offline on Oct. 30. Netease blog service is expected to integrate with many other Netease services, but currently it’s still a separate product.

To use 163 blog, you need to register your Netease passport first, which is actually an @163.com mail box. After you successfully registered your passport, it won’t take you back to blog service and you cannot find any link back. So remember the domain name and type into your browser again.

First you need to customize your blog so that it will fit you requirement. To do this, click the customize button on the right top of the page. This feature is quite similar with MSN Spaces. You can drag and drop modules to its best location. Then check the setting button to modify access permissions, further tweak the themes, manage storage and check statistics.

The post editor interface supports source code viewing. This is important to the ones that want to hack a little bit on the source code. You can also tag your post when you write. That makes your post more discoverable.

Album management feature looks powerful but still with some bugs. The flash album organization interface doesn’t work for me. When I click refresh photos, it ask me to login, but I didn’t find any place to input username and password. Actually I am linked to this place from management console of the blog, so currently I am logined. There’s also an ActiveX control photo upload tool providing extra feature when you upload pictures. But I failed to launch this tool too.

Your personal collection is the place you can share you favorite online resources with your friends. There’re four named list modules: music, rss, book shelf and online bookmarks. There’s also a customized list where you can put anything. To show these list on you homepage, you still have to activate these module first.

One feature that Microsoft Live space (formerly MSN space) doesn’t have is the friends section. You can search your friends with their username. Well, currently I don’t think any of my friends are in this network. I am not sure what you will get after you have some friends in the list. I guess there should be some feature letting you check your friends’ latest post. A sweet feature learned from MSN Spaces is the name card. When you click on other user’s picture, his name card shows up. You will see his blog URL, newest post and pictures.

In tag section, you can manage all you tags and see all other ones’. Click on these tags, you can browse what others are writing and collecting with one specific tag. This is a useful feature to navigate the whole 163 blogosphere.

Summary

Netease blog is a good choice for beginner, if you haven’t set up your first blog yet, especially if you are using other Netease services. There’re some integration going forward. Don’t forget to subscribe to the admin blog for new updates.

Two more suggestions to this service.

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One Response to “Netease launched new blog service”

  1. raenoll on September 2nd, 2006 7:01 am

    改标题和描述很方便的呀，只要ajax点上去就可以了。不用网易通行证才行，用126/188的邮箱也行。

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