Patent ID: 8843555

Claim:
A system for providing a neighbor connect service between an internal blog of a first user subscribing to the neighbor connect service and an external blog of a second user not subscribing to the neighbor connect service, the system comprising: a storage device comprising a plurality of units, executable by a processor, the plurality of units including, a reception unit configured to receive a neighbor add request from a user terminal administering one of the internal blog and the external blog, to set up a neighbor relationship with other of the internal blog and the external blog; a setup unit configured to set up the neighbor relationship between the internal blog of the first user and the external blog of the second user upon receipt of the neighbor add request from the user terminal; a provision unit configured to provide information associated with the set up of the neighbor relationship between the internal blog and the external blog, the information indicating at least a number of neighbor relationships set up from neighbor add requests from the user terminal; wherein the reception unit is configured to receive the neighbor add request from a user terminal administering the internal blog using the neighbor connect service; a guide unit configured to guide the user terminal administering the internal blog in the set up of the neighbor relationship based on the neighbor add request; and an installation unit configured to install a neighbor connect program in the user terminal administering the internal blog for enabling the user terminal administering the internal blog to request set up of the neighbor relationship in response to the neighbor add request from the user terminal administering the internal blog; wherein the setup unit is configured to set up the neighbor relationship with the external blog based on the installed neighbor connect program.