Progressive Overload

While doing some ego-surfing on InstantSpot 's behalf, I came across a blogger doing a review of some of the free website/blog tools available on the web today. At the time, what I found was part 1 of a 3 part series on the apps read here for part 1 .

Somehow, InstantSpot squeaked its way in to the author's review getting tossed into the competition with Blogger, Wordpress, Vox and LiveJournal.

"I also found this one called InstantSpot after my testing. I know nothing about it but may set up a blog on it to test it. Then I’ll update this list with my Instant Spot blog."

COOL!!!

Part 2 of the review concentrated mainly on Blogger and Wordpress and the pro's and con's of each.

Part 3 discussed the "others" (that means InstantSpot!) I have grabbed the author's review of our beloved 'Spot and you can read it below:


"Instant Spot:

* can edit .css
* allows google adsense (just click in ad manager)
* tracking script manager works with trackers like g analy, feedburner, etc
* host header mgmt allows redirecting to a host domain name
* definitely looks geared towards tracking, marketing and promoting
* has large set of social networking icons (like digg, etc) at bottom of each post (many of which I have never heard)
* tag line is “Get spotted now!
* seems to be highly customizable judging by looking at other instant spot blogs. Not sure how though.
* has ads on page

Instant Spot was the only other blog engine that looked intriguing to me. I could see it being useful for people who are selling or promoting something and who want a very nice looking site (not sure of the effort involved though) and who want to be able to market, track and promote their site. If you had a club or small business, this seems like a good site.

We teach Aikido and I could see easily setting up a website for our Aikido club on this. Here is an instant spot site that is for a fitness class that is not fancy and was probably easy to set up, but is a decent site for their classes. (I don’t know or endorse these people, just thought it was a good example of a not-too-fancy, easy to set up, useful site). And here is a really nice looking blog .

Instant Spot seems to have some definite possibilities.

Well, that is it for my review of blog engines. Google Blogger for balance between being easy and having functionality, WordPress.org (self-hosted wordpress) for total control and flexibility and Instant Spot for an easy (I think) website for a club, class, non-profit or small business."

COOL...AGAIN!!!