China's Newest Blog Service in Town: Lifester Blog - Their Privacy Controls Mimic Vox
As an ardent Vox User, the privacy controls are the most important feature and one of the most reason why I love blogging on Vox (on top of many other great reasons). Lifester Blog is a new blogging service that offers great privacy controls - where you can leave posts private just for your eyes, for your friend's eye's or just your family. I wonder how Chinese netizens will communicate through online blogs, like Lifester Blog, that offer this level of privacy. How will the Chinese government respond, can they force Lifester Blog to reveal "suspicious posts"? How will online activism change? - Tricia
From China Web 2.0 Review - Lifesterblog: Somewhat Like a Vox Chinese Version: Maybe there are always startups who think it is never too late to provide blogging service. Lifesterblog, founded by Edmund Wong, is a newly launched Hong Kong-based blogging service provider, which targeted Hong Kong and Mainland China users. And as many Hong Kong websites, it has English version as well.
At my first glance, I think Lifesterblog is a Chinese version of Vox. For example, the privacy control is similar as Vox does. users can select access right for every post, every picture, every video, every audio and every book, there are five kinds of access right: public, friends, family, friends and family, or private. You can hardly find another blogging service with such complicated privacy control in China.
The content import feature is similar as Vox as well. In Lifesterblog, you can upload multimedia content, or import content from popular web services, such as Flickr, YouTube, Amazon, Yahoo! Avatar and Facebook.
You may easily find the similarity between the UI of Vox and Lifesterblog as well, for instance, the UI of composing a blog post.
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