App Engine Blog ("AEB", pronounced "Abe") seeks to provide a near wordpress quality blog engine that runs on the google app engine.

It is a fork of Brian M. Clapper's excellent Pico Blog for app engine.

Some core features / attributes: - runs on app engine - uses python and django - fully functional password protected admin to add/edit/delete blog posts - fully functional public blog viewer to view blog posts - tag cloud support - WYSIWYG editor for posts - home page truncated article previews with read more link - search engine friendly url's - working to keep the code barebones and add features via integration with social media & other javascript api's for promotion/analytics/profit: feedburner rss, feedburner email, twitter follow, facebook fan follow, disqus comments, google analytics, google adsense, google custom search, wibiya toolbar, tweetmeme retweet this, and facebook share this.

Upgrades / future enhancements being considered / in progress: - considering port to java app engine - non ajax for now (considering adding ajax features but concerned with search engine optimization issues) - memcache support - image upload support - "themelets", ie: a minimalist base ui theme that can be extended via editing a css file - support for plugins ala wordpress - source code auto-formatter to make it easier to share source code snippets - there are more ideas which are eluding me at the moment, stay tuned.

View the home page for the project here:

http://developeradvocate.appspot.com/id/1005/AppEngineBlog-(%22AEB%22)-Version-1.1.0-Released