[Rock-dev] Rock news: Google+ vs. Tumblr
Leif Christensen
leif.christensen at dfki.de
Fri May 24 10:30:50 CEST 2013
If I would be forced to make a decision on that, I would go for tumblr.
Looks cleaner and I don't think we really need a fancy youtube channel
and integration of g+ posts.
We should also check for "interesting" user terms & conditions...
+1 tumblr
Leif
Am 24.05.2013 10:14, schrieb Sylvain Joyeux:
> We've been using Tumblr as the underlying place to store the news about
> rock. This was fine so far, but there were some issues ... So I started
> having a look at Google+ Pages as a possible replacement of tumblr, and
> here is the pros/cons of both. I'd like to know if there are some
> feelings about this ...
>
> Tumblr
> ====
> Pros:
> - customized look, the tumblr blog looks like the main Rock website
> - really blog-oriented
> - video posts are hard to format properly so that we see they are new
> posts (e.g., they don't have titles)
> - easy integration with the main Rock website
> Cons:
> - used by few people (or at least, less people than G+)
> - video support is really bad. The tumblr player is buggy, and there
> are no option to create something looking like a YouTube channel (where
> all the videos can be browsed)
> - few of the rock people have a tumblr account
>
> G+
> ==
> Pros:
> - great integration with youtube, among which the ability to get a Rock
> YT channel
> - possibility to integrate some the G+ posts on the Rock website (also
> a con, see below)
> - nearly everyone has a google account, and therefore can be given
> rights to post about Rock on the Rock page.
> Cons:
> - cannot make the G+ page look like the Rock website
> - integration of G+ posts limited (have to use a third-party widget
> like http://www.gplus-widget.com/)
>
>
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