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.