Three light blogs have advantages

Mention light blog, do not know how many people unfamiliar, in fact, light blog is a kind of network between the blog and microblogging services. Abroad, the launch of the April 2007 Tumblr has been in the light blog market leader, many celebrities and large media companies are using Tumblr website. And the domestic popular point and Sina Bo is also a light blog, the three light blog each with advantages, shrimp then I do a comparison.

For a variety of reasons, Tumblr does not support Chinese, nor does it operate in China, while still a long time can not visit from China, therefore, from this year onwards, there are many types of Tumblr light blog products, more well-known domestic light blog a little bit, Sina Bo, Broad Way, push him and other services, But at present only a little bit open registration, others are closed to open registration, which point will be the concept of light blog in China Amplification, the latest number of registered users have exceeded million.

The following will be from the point of view of product experience to evaluate the similarities and differences between Tumblr, Dot and Sina Bo.

Home Page

Homepage is a netizen to visit the first page, he will be converted to the site of the registered users, home played a big role. TUMBLR, Dot and Sina Bo's home page are very concise, similar style, TUMBLR and point will be placed in the middle of the registration bar, the login button in the upper right corner, Sina light bo will be the login box in the middle, registration is transferred to the Sina Weibo registration page.

Tumblr home with a picture of the way to quickly show the main interface of the site, next to the fast registration bar, Tumblr listed on the site below the 30 reasons to use the product, including a large number of templates, support mobile phones, support a large number of third-party applications and so on.

Dot net Home and Tumblr similar, but also in the upper left corner of the use of the site "High quality content community", indicating the nature of DOT network.

Sina Bo home page with a picture of the site to show some of the interface, but did not explain the function and nature of the site, the page prompts users to "Use micro-Blog account Login", indicating that it and Sina Weibo has a close relationship.

Publish Home

Registered users will enter the release of the home page, the release of the first home is also very similar, are the top side for the quick release bar, the middle of the content for friends, the right side for the function bar.

Tumblr can publish text, photos, references, links, chats, music, and videos, where references (Quote) are statements that refer to others to add a description. Chat (Chat) for a chat content. Music can be used to quote external music, can also upload music files within 10MB, video can be cited, but also support the upload 5 minutes 100M within the video file.

Point can be published text, pictures, music, links, video, which music for the reference of shrimp site music, video for Youku, potatoes, cool 6, six rooms, 56 nets, music Yue Taiwan's video address. Uploading music and videos is not supported.

Sina light Bo can publish text, photos, videos, video is also cited Sina podcast, Youku, Tudou, 酷6网, 56 network video, does not support the upload video.

Template theme

Tumblr supports the largest number of templates, supports 68 sets of free templates and 52 sets of pay templates, the cost of the model price from a few dollars to dozens of U.S. dollars. Click Browse more themes can also browse to hundreds of sets of Tumblr templates.

Point support 17 sets of free templates, there is no pay template.

Sina Weibo may be due to the short release time, the support of the template is less, only support 7 sets of free template.

Tumblr and dot support custom CSS styles, Sina Weibo currently does not support custom CSS styles. All three support the custom theme appearance, can modify the background picture, the text color and so on information.

Microblogging sync

Tumblr support and Twitter Sync, users to bind the Twitter account, the information released in the Tumblr can be posted to Twitter, for Chinese users, Twitter is clearly not in line with national conditions, dot com support light blog and Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo's binding function, When the user publishes the information can choose whether to sync to Sina Tencent Weibo, Sina Weibo default integration Sina microblog, the user system also integrates, the user sends the information also can synchronize to Sina Weibo.

Other features

Mobile clients: Tumblr and dots have mobile clients that support popular iphones and Android systems; Sina Weibo has no mobile client.

Tumblr's iphone

Little bit of the iphone end

RSS support: Tumblr and dot support rss output, Sina Bo does not support RSS output.

Domain binding: Tumblr and dot support independent domain name binding, but Tumblr domain binding IP has been the wall, can not access from China, point binding domain name needs to record, but also need manual audit operation; Sina Weibo does not support independent domain binding.

Import: Tumblr supports multiple forms of import functionality, including RSS Feeds, Delicious, Digg, Twitter, wordpress.com, Blogger, LiveJournal, Vimeo, Youtube, to protect copyright, Tumblr for RSS feeds imported information as summary information, does not support Full-text import, in addition, Tumblr also supports Instagram and picplz photo synchronization. Dot and Sina Bo do not support the import function.

Tag browsing: Tumblr and dots support the form of tags (tags) to browse the content, Tumblr labels are in English, the point of the label for Chinese, both can show the label heat, content active degree, the chief small name and other information. Sina Weibo currently does not support tag browsing, but instead pushes all recommendations to one page. All three provide the function of excellent blog by category.

Message Voice release: Tumblr supports posting messages via email and phone voice, and Sina Weibo does not currently support mail and voice publishing.

APIs and Third-party applications: Tumblr opened the API and supported dozens of third-party apps, Dot and Sina Weibo currently has no open API to third parties.

Summary

Light blog is a kind of service between blog and Weibo, the development of lighter blog, its ease of use is better than blog, more inclined to picture blog, than micro-broad, than blog small, light social, heavy content, suitable for higher quality content publishers.

Overall, from the similarity point of view, Dot and Tumblr similarity, from the function, Tumblr > Dot > Sina qing, but Tumblr does not support Chinese, and part of the address (domain-bound IP) can not be accessed from China, language and culture there are huge ravines, Therefore, for Chinese users have a certain threshold. For users who use light blogs at home, dot network function and interface is more comprehensive, to achieve the interest as the core of the user group subdivision, while providing a sub-blog, multiplayer blog and contribute a series of functions to ensure the quality of content, compared to Sina Qing more than a certain advantage, it is possible to become a "Chinese version of Tumblr."