OnSugar is a hosted publishing platform that is based on what we use to publish PopSugar, FabSugar, and the rest of Sugar.

Key Platform Features:

• 11 different post types: (text, gallery, layout, poll, look, quiz, quote, link, chat, video, & audio)
• Free access to a hundreds of thousands of Getty Images®
• Fun drag and drop layout tool.  Create your look with thousands of fashion images from hundreds of online retailers through ShopStyle, e.g. ShopBop, J. Crew, Net-a-Porter, and others.
• ShopSense: Make money by linking to products and retailers NEW
• Build your audience of followers with automatic notifcation of new posts
• Follow your favorite sites and view an aggregated feed of your followed sites
• Post by email NEW
• Automatic update of your Facebook and Twitter status NEW
• Multiple sites per account
• Multiple authors per site
• Easy import from Blogger, Wordpress, & Typepad
• Full domain support
• Free

Key Site Features:

• Drafts/Timed Publishing
• Search
• Archives
• Pages (e.g. About Me, Galleries, Videos, etc)
• Widgets for highlighting content from your site or around the web (e.g. Popular Posts, Latest Comments, Latest Tweets, etc)
• Completely customizable themes

Technologies:

• Drupal - open source content management system
• Akamai - Entire platform uses the Akamai content delivery network
• memcached - Extensive use of memcached

• Smarty - Template engine
• sIFR - (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a technology that allows you to replace text elements on screen with Flash equivalents.
• TinyMCE - Rich Text Editor
• LLMP - Linux, lighttpd, MySQL, PHP
• Fully documented API