Introduction to
OpenLink Data Space
Weblog

The definitive Weblog Platform

Blog Overview

• What is a Blog?
  • Weblogs or blogs as they are on-line journals that allows individuals and businesses to communicate and share information in both public and private forums...
• What is ODS WebLog?
  • OpenLink Software provides an online blogger powered by ODS a Virtuoso Weblog Engine that supports all the Weblog Posting APIs (Blogger, Meta-Weblog, Moveable Type, ATOM), it also provides blog post data for syndication using ATOM or RSS.

Value of Blogging

• Blogs are a valuable source of information and through this vehicle corporations can propagate vital corporate data and news anywhere from quarterly earnings to product announcements..

Benefits of Corporate Blogging

• Internal blogs:
  • Logging status of current builds, releases, and patches
  • Share daily development status and activities
  • Post status of professional services engagements
  • Share information globally with offices around the world
  • Share information and content on our corporate systems
• External Blogging
  • Aggregate industry and market news
  • Product Launches
  • Technology and Research
  • Code Examples and Product Tours
  • Product Services Offerings
  • Pricing and Promotions

With ODS WebLog you can...

• Expand services to those across your organization
• Increase productivity and information exchange through better time management and resource allocation
• Promote internal marketing for individual, and group or team initiatives as well as projects across the globe

Integrated with ODS

• ODS Provides an Integrated Data environment for:
  • Intellegent content aggregation
  • Creation of Weblogs & other applications
  • Single Sign on for ODS web applications
  • Comprehensive Search
  • Account management including personal data and templates

Weblog Platform Overview

• Edit, Publish and share information with Weblog
  • Blog Management & Templating
  • Common Feed formats & Web Services APIs
  • Broadest feature sets in all the Blogosphere
• Intelligently categorize and tag posts
  • propagated to multiple destinations,
  • published in all formats.
• Individual or team authorship
  • supports community blogs aggregating data from several blogs hosted on the system.

ODS Weblog

Weblog Provides

• Easy Registration for...
  • Individual/Personal Blogs
  • Community or Corporate Blogs

Personal Blogs

• ODS Personal Blog allows you to customize your blog including your blog's look and feel.

Community Blogs

• ODS Community Blog features provide shared blogging that multiple authors or members can post to.
• One established virtually everyone on the Web can read a your Community Blog.

Weblog Feature Summary

• Presentation & Content
  • Templating
    • Chose from templates or customize your own.
• WYSIWYG editor
• Multiple Blog Views
  • Link View - Links
  • Summary
  • Archives
• Commenting
  • Enable, Disable or moderate comments

Weblog Feature Summary

• Presentation & Content
  • Post Enclosures
    • Podcasts and video
  • Categorize Posts
    • Add Categories per post
    • Post automatically categorized assigned based on post content using user specific rules.
  • Tags
    • Create new or choose from a list of suggested tags for the post based on content using user-specific rules
  • Comprehensive Search
    • Full text, tags, categories, date ranges. XPATH and XQuery applied to posts.
  • Links
    • List of favorite links, ODS Profile and more..

Weblog Feature Summary

• Integration
  • Mobile Blogging
    • Publish posts from PDA or mobile phone
  • Automatic pinging
    • weblogs.com, technorati.com, etc.
  • Automatic upload of tagged posts
    • del.icio.us, etc.
  • Feed formats support
    • GData, ATOM 1.0, RSS 2.0 with multimedia extensions (iTunes, Yahoo multimedia extensions), RSS 0.9 (RDF), OPML and OCS for feed sharing.

Weblog Feature Summary

• Integration
  • Amazon A9 Open Search compatible
    • Blog can be plugged into A9.
  • Upstreaming
    • Automatic synchronization
      • ODS based blogs
      • Other blogging service providers via all blogging protocols.

Weblog Feature Summary

• Security
  • IP Banning to reduce spam
  • Member only Content and Comment contribution
  • Readership can be restricted to selected ODS accounts through ACLs

Weblog ODS Single Sign-on (SSO)

Weblog Member Login

Weblog Posting

• Titles, Tags and Categories
• Post Preview
• Comments - Allow visitors to post comments to your weblog, either anonymously or after providing a username and password...
• Trackbacks & Permalinks

Weblog Posting

Weblog Tags

Weblog Categories

Weblog Home Page

Weblog Linkblog

Weblog Archives

Weblog Configuration

• Channel Subscriptions & Upstreams
• Customization (User Preferences and Templates)
• Community blog Administration and Membership

Weblog Preferences

Weblog Related Blogs

Weblog Upstreaming

Weblog Templates

Weblog Syndication

• News feeds help you "get the word out" about updates to your blog. OpenLink offers:
  • RSS headlines from other weblogs and websites on your blog
  • Syndication with authentication: your users can use their RSS newsreader to browse and access password-protected headlines on your site.
  • OpenLink weblog generates RSS feeds dynamically, sending out one RSS feed for a public user and another separate RSS feed for an authenticated user with special access privileges!
  • Get your word out in multiple languages by Translating your page with BabelFish

Weblog Syndication

Weblog Search

• Searching is fast and easy with ODS Keyword search. You can search:
  • Your own blog
  • The Entire Web
  • Feedster or Technorati
  • Or our Advanced Search which allows you search based on Text, XPath or Xquery expressions

Weblog Calendar Search

Weblog Keyword Search

Weblog Advanced Search

Fun Stuff

• Del.icio.us - Bookmark your posts using this social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add posts to your personal collection of links which can be categorized and shared.
• WebLog Ping - Let the world know you have updated your blog by sending a small ping to a group of services so they can come check out your very latest posts and news.

Weblog del.icio.us Bookmarking

Weblog Ping Services

Weblog Moblogging

• Moblogging - With OpenLinks moblog feature you can post notes, articles or photos by email or from your mobile phone and have it appear on blog.

Weblog Moblogging

Using OpenLinks Weblog

• Provide channels of information to the Web
• Promote internal and external collaboration
• Real time publishing
• News aggregation and Syndication

Weblog Feed Subscriptions

OpenLink Blog Features

• API Support
  • Support for Movable Type/Blogger API, which allows you to post to your Use a custom domain name for your weblog.
• Article Import
  • Import articles, categories, and comments from Movable Type/Typepad and Blogger weblogs, or export your weblog articles as a compressed XML archive.

Summary

• Weblog is an easy to use, inexpensive, non-techie vehicle for blogging
• Weblog provides seamless access through any browser on any platform
• Weblog Posts can be archived and users can comment on any blog post
• Weblog content is searchable and browsable through keywords, calendars, categories or Queries
• Weblog Content can be syndicated so you can receive RSS feeds or updates via email
• Web blog provides the ability to capture, annotate and share just about any information you can think of...

Start Blogging Today!

• With ODS Weblog you can begin blogging immediately.
• Download Virtuoso, ODS Framework and the Weblog VADs
  • Install Virtuoso
  • Install VADs
• Browse to http://[host:port]/ods
  • Register and Login to your account.
  • Update your profile
• Create a Weblog
  • Publish a Blog Post, Tag, Upstream, post pictures and podcasts, Invite a friend and add to your blogroll
• And more ...

Learn More

• Virtuoso Technology Blog
• On-Line Demonstrations & Tutorials
• Virtuoso Documenation