Penzu, readings

[charmian]

Weird how Penzu seems to be getting so much attention when their features appear rather skimpy: is it the design that makes the difference? How they present themselves? With one of their paid features being LJ imports, it seems that they're aiming for the LJ market. The 'journaling'/private blogging niche does seem to be less full of competitors than the microblogging (Tumblr, Posterous) niche.

In other news, re: The new Saiunkoku book. Seriously, by this point in time, I'm half-minded to just say "I'll read it when the entire series is done." (especially w/ the increased cost of shipping) Which will hopefully be within the next two books. This is why I prefer finished series. :P

Comments

[elena]

Seems quite similar to Diary.com which is kind of cute, but it doesn't allow for diary search or post tags, so it's actually rather useless for storing information.

It also apparenty deleted without warning a few old private diaries I had created during some site redesign. Hm. =_=

By the way, did you see this one? As soon as they support self-hosted WordPress blogs and fix their linking syntax, it might actually start to be useful to me.

[charmian]

Yeah, it seems not v. useful; but then, I don't journal, I blog.

Hmm, seems like Posterous (Posterous also has tons of reposting options available. Unfortunately, Dreamwidth doesn't use the types of protocols they use.) I don't really like to crosspost my content a bajillion times (it's redundant for the people who read me in multiple places), so it's not too useful for me either. (Especially since I don't use mobile)

Personally, I'd like to see something that works the other way (in other words, on the reading content side)

[troisroyaumes]

Doesn't look like they're really focusing on the social networking element though. I like the concept however.