Wordpress

Popular open source blogging software platform, offering both a downloadable blogging program and a hosted solution. If you are serious about building a brand or making money online you should publish your content to your own domain because it can be hard to reclaim a website's link equity and age related trust if you have built years of link equity into a subdomain on someone else's website. See also: Wordpress.org - download the software Wordpress.com - offers free blog hosting

Wordpress is an excellent open-source web publishing system or content management system. Created primarily as blogging software, Wordpress is written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database, it is ideal for managing content that is frequently updated. Distributed under the GNU General Public License the latest version, Wordpress 2.2.3, was released on Sept 8, 2007. WordPress is described as a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability by its creators. Features include:

• Integrated link management
• Plugin support
• Search friendly permalink structure
• Static Pages
• Trackbacks
• Pingbacks
• Typographic filters
• WYSIWYG
• Nested categories
• Multiple authors