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Built-in Blog

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Steven Vore points out that TopStyle is one of the first products he's seen that has a weblog built into it. Here's the Weblog . Update: here's a picture of how it looks inside TopStyle [ Raible Designs, Built-in Blog] .

When I read Matt's post earlier today, I assumed that TopStyle is an HTML editor that now has weblog publishing features. On closer inspection, it appears that is not the case?

Anyway, this made me start thinking about weblogging software as a commodity. If it is a commodity that means you can't really make money selling weblogging software. You might be able to make money selling weblogging related services as weblogger.com does, or you might be able to make your existing software more valuable by adding weblogging features to it. Seems to me that weblogging features would make sense in an HTML editor/publisher, portal software, or even an e-Commerce suite. I wonder what other categories of software would benefit from weblogging features.

UPDATE: Russell commented on this post.



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