In Edit Profile…

* You can add a photo that will serve as your avatar.

* Change your name (NOT your username) — first name, last name, nickname.

* Contact info: E-mail, website, AIM, Y!M, Jabber/GoogleTalk.

* About Yourself.

To signup…

1. Click on the SIGN UP link.

2. Supply a username, password, E-mail address, and check the box if you have read the “fascinating terms of service”. Click NEXT.

3. The next page will have you choose a FINAL blog domain name since it cannot be changed (like in Myspace; unlike in Friendster). Supply a blog title, primary language. Check the box if you want your blog to appear on search engines such as Google and Technorati. Click SIGN-UP.

4. You will be directed to a page where you can: write a post, change templates, or go to WordPress.com homepage.

Features

* What You See Is What You Get post editor
No need to be HTML-savvy to compose an entry.

* Templating system
Bored with your blah layout? WordPress offers an array of on-site templates free to all users.

* Integrated link management
Links to outside blogs, sites, and/or files can be posted on special widgets and sidebars.

* Search engine-friendly permalink structure
Upon sign-up, you will be asked if you want your blog to be visible in Google and/or Technorati.

* Extensible plugin support
Some accounts have available plugins for video, audio, Flash publishing.

* Nested categories and multiple categories for articles
Entries are organized by categories supplied by author and/or admin.

* TrackBack and Pingback
This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles.

* Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text
Hey! Spellchecker function.

* Multiple Authors
WordPress can be a community of users. In Edit Account, you can add/change users who can post, edit, delete, or just contribute to your blog.

* Can store a list of users that visit your blog
It also has a tracker. Keep track of the IP addresses of the people checking out your blog.

* Can block a person’s IP address
If it can track, it also blocks.

* Tag support
Having trouble find that one entry? Tag it. Author can supply a tag for organization.

* Word Count
Keep track of how many words you are blurting out. LOL.

WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a free WordPress-powered weblog hosting from company Automattic. It opened to beta testers on 8 August 2005 and opened to the public on 21 November 2005. It runs WordPress MU, a version of the original software that allows people to create and manage their own weblogs without requiring the time, money and technical knowledge involved in setting up WordPress on an ordinary hosting account.

The site was initially launched as an invitation-only service, although at one stage, accounts were also available to users of the Flock web browser. However, accounts can now be registered by anyone, and there are over 1,115,004 accounts with the service. Registration is not required to read or comment on weblogs hosted on the site, except if the blog owner wanted to do so; but registration is required to own or post in a weblog. All the basic and original features of the site are free-to-use, and will remain so in future. However, some new features (such as a CSS editor, domain mapping, and storage upgrades) are available only to users who pay for them.

WordPress employs WYSIWYG system. You can also change themes. The default theme upon signup is called “Kubrick”. This page is using Andreas04 wherein you can add/edit widgets, extras, and CSS. You can choose from single to 3-column themes, color themes, and/or nature themes.

Like Livejournal, WordPress also is affiliated with Snap.com — a bubble appears when the mouse pointer goes over a hyperlink, displaying the webpage.

For example: Feder-bear

Also, like in Xanga, author can upload photos, audio, video, and as in Friendster — slideshow media.