Practical Internet Marketing Advice for 2006!

35|boastMachine: Nice and Easy

March 16th, 2006 by Marcel Ursprung

http://www.boastology.com

Originally called “EZ-articles“, boastMachine was conceived sometime in December 2003 by, then 16 year old, Kailash (blog). It all started as a PHP learning exercise for Kailash Nadh from Kerala India.

“That was the time when I had just learned PHP. So basically, I was sitting there with nothing to do. Bling! I had an idea! I quickly opened my text editor, CuteHTML (my all time favorite), ran the Sambar webserver and started scribbling down php code. After long three hours, I finally came up with ‘EZ-articles’!”

Developed further, this project laid the foundations for version 1 of “bMachine“, later renamed to it’s full name boastMachine, and it’s current release.

boastMachine is open source (GPL) and written in PHP/MySQL. This is so far the only blog CMS that puts a smile on my face. While it’s not the most sophisticated system, it does have all the major features you would expect and it performs well. Overall it’s a visually attractive, nice, user friendly system, that makes blogging fun again. I you are currently using Blogger, but want to host your own blog, put this on your short list of possible replacements.

Here is a list of the supported features:

• Multiple blogs
• Multiple users and permission levels
• User profiles
• Multilingual (17 Languages)
• Unlimited categories
• Themes and smiley packs
• Template editor
• Spam filter and IP blocking
• Built in word filter
• Built in referrer log
• Built in link manager
• File manager with file uploads
• Post voting/rating system
• bbCode engine for text posts
• WYSIWYG editor for HTML posts
• Search engine friendly pages
• Title/Content post search
• Pingbacks / Trackbacks
• Comment image verification
• RSS and ATOM feeds
• Data backup system

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