| General Features | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
3.3
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1.0.2
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1.12.0
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2.4
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1.5.4
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1.2.6
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| Release Date |
3.3
|
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
|
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
|
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
|
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
|
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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| Author |
eTouch Systems
|
Jeena Paradies / team
|
The PSG Team
|
Francois Planque / evoTeam
|
Josh Schmidt
|
The LifeType Project
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| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Commercial
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GPL 2
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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| License Cost/ Fee |
Pls check www.etouch.net
|
Free
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0 - Free
|
0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Interface Languages |
0
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0
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0
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10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish |
0
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0
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| Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Hosting Features | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Storage Quota |
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
None
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
No
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
No pornography
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Programming Language |
Java
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
Windows/Linux/Solaris
|
Any
|
Linux, Windows or other
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
|
| Webserver |
Bundled with Tomcat. Can be proxied via webserver of choice
|
Any
|
Apache, IIS or other
|
Apache, anything with PHP
|
Apache, IIS
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
Oracle 9i/10G, JSDK1.4
|
None
|
MySQL
|
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| Datastorage | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| MS SQL Server |
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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| Other |
(must overload DB abstraction class)
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| Anti-Spam | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Akismet Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Word Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| IP Ban List |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Moderated Comments
|
Moderation, link condom
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several specialized antispam plugins
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BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
|
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| User Access Features | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Log |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Authentication |
Single-Sign On
|
You can write your own auth plugin
|
OpenID plugin
|
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
|
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| Support | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Commercial Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Online Help |
Available
|
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
|
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
|
http://wiki.lifetype.net
|
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| Issue Tracker |
support.etouch.net
|
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
|
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
|
http://bugs.lifetype.net
|
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| Books |
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
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| Support Forum | ||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||
| IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
|
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| Blogging Features | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
None
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Pingback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
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| Ping Service Support |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blog by Email |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blog API |
Can be provided on request
|
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
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| Post Editing | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Multi-paged posts |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Spell Checker |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Undo |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comment Features | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Gravatars |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
Client
|
None
|
Client
|
|
| Extended Features | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Polls / Surveys |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Google Sitemap |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Workflow | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Content Approval |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Versioning |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
simple
|
simple
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Content Import |
Using custom import framework
|
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
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| Content Export |
No
|
RSS
|
||||
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| HTML Output |
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Web Statistics |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 2.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | SamePage | Jlog | PSG | b2evolution | WikyBlog | LifeType |
| Podcast Feeds |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Converter |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| remove SamePage | remove Jlog | remove PSG | remove b2evolution | remove WikyBlog | remove LifeType |