On improving PersonalLog

With the rising demand for blogs on PersonalLog, such as the new blogs started up recently (including A Blog Title and Nikola’s Muzik), I’m starting to see posts on virtually every topic, whether it’s gaming, other sites, life, politics, or music.  All of this means more stress on the infrastructure itself, which is why I’m starting to integrate services like ImageShack and YouTube into the software.

Recently, I’ve enabled PersonalLog-network-wide features, such as ImageShack integration in the Write Post page, easy insertion of videos from the top video sharing sites (including YouTube, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, MyspaceTV, and so on), and added a few optional plugins including NoIE (which shows a warning to Internet Explorer users and helps them move to Firefox), Counterize II (which tracks site visitors and details about them in real time), and a FeedBurner redirection plugin. These and more are being installed, adapted, and perfected every day.

The first two features that I’ve mentioned, ImageShack integration and video embedding, will help people improve their content while not placing any additional burdens on the PersonalLog server. By encouraging people to upload pictures and graphics to ImageShack, I am indirectly causing them to use more graphics, which improves the experience for the visitors. By encouraging and making it easy to embed videos, I am indirectly influencing them to use and incorporate more videos, thus attracting user interaction. At the same time, the videos aren’t hosted on PersonalLog and won’t drive up the bandwidth consumption.

For the ImageShack integration, you can take a look at some screenshots or a video tutorial. For the video embedding, read this post at PersonalLog.

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