A preview of Blog Navigator

A "news reader" designed expressly for bloggers

from JoeUser Forums

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.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sounds great, but finish GalCiv AP already would ya! Just joking....
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Happy, happy, joy, joy!!!! I just saw that GalCiv:AP public beta is available. Cannot wait to get home tonight!

Woohoo!
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Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

Been a busy day - for OTHER people anyway. ;)


(I basically took today off).

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
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
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I can't wait for this thing to come out, it'll be nice to have.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
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
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
It will let you do just that.
It will be relatively small.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Looks good.

paul.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Zoomba: I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just so long as you bring me back to life afterwards... :)
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
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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