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Published on November 14, 2004 By Draginol In Blogging

As far as I know, JoeUser.com is the only blog community on the Internet. There are various blog services out there but each blog is an island. That is, they are completely isolated from other sites on there.

The downside of the way we have JoeUser is that it's hard to avoid having the opinions of those who you dislike show up on your page somewhere as part of the "newest" or "featured" and the like. Of course, as some people who have left JoeUser because of those reasons have learned, that also helps bring people to their site. So they may write the most compelling things but few will read them (other than perhaps other former JU people they've met).

What we need to do is find a way to let users have the best of both worlds -- for people to be able to have blogs that they have more control over what shows up on the side-bar but still get lots of people reading what they write.

To that end, we're formulating JoeUser.com premium subscriptions. It would be $24.95 sign up plus $2.99 per month. The sign-up would give the user the first 3 months plus a copy of Blog Navigator Pro (Blog Navigator Pro is how I write all my blogs these day sand read through JoeUser). Other bonuses would be a photo album feature enabling users to have a album tab on their blog that they can submit images into and organize. They would also be able to customize the look and feel of their blog far more so than the templates we have today.

Time-line for this? Probably early next year. Have to finish WinCustomize.com first. But after that we'll be able to look at putting these features in.

What do you think?

Comments (Page 3)

Akira Haku

on Nov 18, 2004

Oh yeah, Modblog is a great example of the kind of flexibility I would like to have when it comes to controlling the look and content of my blog homepage.

Danny Bassette

on Dec 10, 2004

Two things I'd like to see: First is the ability to transfer your points to a worthy recepient, both blog points and user points. Although in all fairness not blog points to user points or vice versa. And second is accepting longer titles for the My Favorites tab so that a picture may more easily be inserted. Although it does sound like your planning to add the ability to store pictures on JoeUser, so this might already be covered.

imajinit

on Dec 12, 2004

I want my blog to be able to make me coffee in the morning, and perform menial tasks around the house while I'm at work.
If we can set it up to meet me at the door when I get home, that would be great too.

How much would those services run?

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