LonelyThinker
The missing blog platform for geeksIntroduction
LonelyThinker is an open source (BSD License) blogging platform. The goal is to make it simple, smart, lightweight and extremely easy-to-use.
The project was initially founded by Felix Ding in the end of 2007, the first public release is available now.
LonelyThinker requires PHP 5, MySQL (version 4 or higher) and CakePHP 1.2.
Features
M-O, your smart comments-managing robot
M-O is a cute robot which helps you to manage your comments, by classifying the comments into the good ones and the bad ones (SPAM). When new comments arrive, M-O identifies their content and decides how to classify them automatically, nothing to worry about by you!
The coolest thing is that M-O can learn by itself! The more comments you got, the smarter M-O is, the less mistakes it commits. In rarely cases when M-O classify the comments into wrong category, all you need to do is re-classify them, and M-O will learn and remember your choice.
If there are some kinds of comments you don't like, just describe them by adding keywords into M-O's Blacklist. The comments which match any keywords will be classified as SPAM. The keywords can cover Name (the one who leaves the comments), IP, Email, Website and comment text. You can even use Regular Expression in the keywords!
And of course, M-O gives you the full power of managing comments manually.
VisitorSense, your brand new way for targeted marketing
VisitorSense builds a Sensors Matrix to watch your visitors from different angles, and triggers the actions defined by you when certain criteria matches. In this way, you can do targeted and precision marketing for different kinds of users, and enjoy the success of your blogging.
For example, you can set up a sensor to
see how many pages the user has read;
if his/her pageviews are more than 3, display a widget and invite him/her to subscribe to your RSS;
if the user ignored your widget, display a survey form and ask why.
Isn't it cool? Hold your breath, because this is just one little usage of VisitorSense. By using different sensors, VisitorSense could be much more robust and magical!
VisitorSense is extendable! You can just drop the third-party or your own sensors into the folder and enjoy the magic!
Internationalized/Localization (i18n)
LonelyThinker is born with a global view. It uses the UTF-8 encoding and supports mutil-languages. As the version of 0.5, LonelyThinker has English and Simplified Chinese built-in.
LonelyThinker can be easily localized since it stores all text in a standard text PO file, which can be edited using your favorite text editors.
RSS
Of course LonelyThinker provides a standard RSS feed, it's there!
Twitter is integrated into LonelyThinker. Add your twitter's username to LonelyThinker and you're done, it's that simple!
Last.fm
Last.fm is also integrated, time to show your unique music taste!. Add your last.fm's username to LonelyThinker and your latest tracks will be displayed.
And even more with CakePHP
LonelyThinker is developed using the popular framework CakePHP, so it supports any features that CakePHP supports. You want more features? No problem, plug in your PHP classes and enjoy the flexibility of LonelyThinker.