Habari is next-generation blogging.
ha·bar·i – noun
Definition — Swahili greeting: What’s the news?
While there are a number of technical reasons that highlight the differences and advantages Habari has over other blogging packages, a major component of what makes Habari different is its community participation model. Users who demonstrate a level of quality contributions to the project are granted more privileges within the project.
Features:
- Modular, object-oriented core for easy extensibility
- Supports multiple database backends (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL)
- Protection against SQL injection attacks
- Media silos to directly access various ways of media storage, like Flickr, Viddler, or the server’s filesystem
- Atom Publishing Protocol support
- Multiple users (authors)
- Multiple sites on one installation
- Support for static content (“pages”)
- Plugins
- Tagging
- Importers for Serendipity and WordPress
Popular Plugins:
- Posting to twitter and receiving status updates
- Inserting Flickr videos and photos from the post editor
- Feedburner integration for customized feeds and statistics
- Disqus comments
- Defensio spam filtering
- Lifestreaming
Click here to view a demo of the Habari software, or download yourself a copy of the code and install it yourself.
