A preview of Blog Navigator

A "news reader" designed expressly for bloggers

Published on March 11, 2004 By Draginol In Work Reports

We've been working on the Blog Navigator for a few months now. We've been on the net and found various RSS readers out there but they always seemed to lack something. If only we could combine all the best features of them together. So that's where the Blog Navigator comes in.

We're going to release a free version that just works on JoeUser.com. But the enhanced version, which will be $19.95, will help support the site and allow users to interact with any site with RSS feeds. But it really goes further than that by allowing you to create your own super blogs from various sources. You can have search folders (ala Outlook) where various terms will automatically be found for you when you load it up and put in a particular folder regardless of what blog they came from. You'll be able to see lists of articles based on your own criteria.

Eventually it'll hook into your Stardock.net account so that you'll be able to manage your own blogs from it. But that's down the road after we see how much popularity there is. The beta of this should be available next week.

Comments (Page 1)

MyViewsAndMuse

on Mar 11, 2004

Sounds great, but finish GalCiv AP already would ya! Just joking....

MyViewsAndMuse

on Mar 11, 2004

Happy, happy, joy, joy!!!! I just saw that GalCiv:AP public beta is available. Cannot wait to get home tonight!

Woohoo!

Lunaticus Minimus

on Mar 11, 2004

Go Team! Go Team! YAY! (I am not going to wear the skirt!)

Draginol

on Mar 11, 2004

Been a busy day - for OTHER people anyway.

(I basically took today off).

Vic

on Mar 11, 2004

Looks exactly like Netnewswire from Ranchero Software. I guess the Outlook model is perfect for newsreaders.

http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

Screenshots:

http://ranchero.com/images/nnw/hpss/mainWindow103.jpg
http://ranchero.com/images/nnw/hpss/combinedView103.jpg

Adam Najmanowicz

on Mar 11, 2004

I do not see the "exact" match Vix, unless you want to compare it to Outlook Express and just about every news reader on Earth. The basic layout is a bit similar, but that's about it. But then again, almost EVERY feed reader has that layout.

mittens

on Mar 11, 2004

I can't wait for this thing to come out, it'll be nice to have.

joetheblow

on Mar 11, 2004

This is great. Not it would seem that I can have multiple blogs under one account. This will become useful to me in the future.

The only 2 things I ask for that will make JoeUser complete:

1)
Be able to personalize the way JoeUser looks

2)
Export posts for safe keeping (in other words I can export my writings and save it on a disk... read it and not be on-line)

I am wondering if the Navigator is based off of Desktop X? I think it would be a grand idea if DX was involved in the development of this browser. This can allow for desktop interactivity and show how DX can be something that companies can use for integrating other systems using the Interanet or Internet.

I think blogging can be a great asset to anyone. for me, I use it as a knowledge base to search through for information that I gathered over the course of time. I will use it for school, research and even work. All I have to do is search my own Knowledge base.

But that is what I use it for. It can be so many other things. I already created a blog devoted to cartoon lovers everywhere. I want it to be here because of the interconnectivity of users and having people become part of the blog as admins. WHAT A FEATURE!!! Although I use Modblog for the connection to DeskMod that is invaluable to a couple of ideas I am developing (feel free to view some of those ideas under development at http://jtb-development.joeuser.com ), JoeUser works for the nitty gritty blogs.

I am glad to see this moving forward and I am waiting the results of such an endeavor.

Vic

on Mar 11, 2004

Yeah, "exactly" was a bad word choice on my part. I was just trying to draw attention to how effective the Outlook model is for newsreaders.

JeremyG

on Mar 11, 2004

Very cool, personally I cant wait for it, I desperately want a 'favorites' list for blogs I like to read. Too often i forget to check people's blogs because I forget them, or worse...i find someone's writing that I like, and then forget the name/site that it was.
I dont really have any interest in a super-blog-rss-reader though. I'd be MUCH more interested in an offline blog composer, plus extra features, like posting a Poll/Survey, System Tray Alert on watched articles (and flagged blogs), that sort of thing. Outside of JoeUser i dont really blog.

Dan Kaschel

on Mar 11, 2004

DItto on pretty much everything Jeremy said. In a lot of ways, JoeUser serves as the means by which I will remember this time in my life, so I'd like to have a soft copy of it on my computer for reference purposes.

What form will this take, and if it's an application, will it be downloaded, and if so, how big is it?

~Dan

JeremyG

on Mar 11, 2004

Good point dan, in addition to saving my own blog, I'd like to be able to save the blogs of other poeple I like.

Adam Najmanowicz

on Mar 11, 2004

It will let you do just that.
It will be relatively small.

Mackintosh

on Mar 12, 2004

Brad, if you were a single woman, I'd marry you

Seriously though, excellent tool, it will prove very useful, can't wait to get my hands on it.

Solitair

on Mar 12, 2004

Looks good.

paul.

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