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 2)

Zoomba

on Mar 12, 2004

How'd you manage to get your hands on World of Warcraft? Somehow manage a spot on the Friends and Family Alpha Test?

Very cool tool btw, definitely looking forward to getting my hands on it.

Draginol

on Mar 12, 2004

Zoomba: I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

Zoomba

on Mar 12, 2004

Just so long as you bring me back to life afterwards...

raynerape@mailbg.com

on Mar 12, 2004

Oh no, another rss reader that does all the *sigh* basic features found in over five dozens of free and commercial software.
Maybe this one got a slightly more pretty icons. Or it can be skinnable. Or it has a clippy coming out and asking "what would you like to get fe(e)d with today?"
Okay, flamethrower off.
But really, this is just yet another rss client, with nothing impressive in it.
There is a huge field for innovation that this soft of programs face, and none of them seems willing to innovate.
For example, one of these important aspects of rss feeds is global presentation of all feeds within a single screen. FeedDemon is making a small step in the right direction with the newspaper mode. Still too basic and undeveloped to be considered a big feature, maybe if someone presents a configurable template engine for mixing and rendering rss information from multiple sources within a single newspaper-like design, that would be something great!
Another great feature, especially in small and middle businesses that could use rss for stocks, quotes, full (even paid) text news and information syndication, would be the ability to assign certain feeds or keywords within feed entry to trigger a connected printer to automatically print the entry. So it is ready to be used in paper form.
Unless someone starts to really innovate with new great features in RSS readers, I'm hardly investing any money. I'm sorry.

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on Nov 06, 2004

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