IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Move complete! I’m on a new host. And there is a new blog and RSS feed addresses.

If you’re still subscribed to this feed, please update your subscription – the new feed address is http://blogjet.com/blog/feed

There’s also a new forum. Unfortunately, I was not able to move user profiles to a new forum, so please, if you want to post, register again here: http://blogjet.com/forum/

If you have posted questions lately, and didn't receive my answer, could you please repost again in the new forum, or email me - dmitry-at-blogjet.com? If you have troubles with this address, write to dmitry-at-blogjet.ORG.

My apologies for this inconvenience. I hope you'll like new blog and forum since they are now more flexible and powerful than the old ones.

Finally, *good* news for you: the new version of BlogJet will be available in a few days. It's a free update for customers. To receive a notification, please subscribe to a free BlogJet Newsletter (http://blogjet.com), or to our new RSS feed: http://blogjet.com/blog/feed/

If you have any difficulties with blogjet.com, please try accessing blogjet.ORG instead.

Thanks for your attention!
If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me by email or by Skype (my account: dchestnykh).

Best regards,
Dmitry Chestnykh
BlogJet.com

WordPress.com is open to public! And it’s free.

Here’s the tip on how to post pictures to your WordPress.com with BlogJet 1.5/1.6 beta 1: when creating account in BlogJet, select “Movable Type API” instead of “WordPress”.

Provider: Movable Type API
Host: yourname.wordpress.com
Page: /xmlrpc.php

Update: Matt says they opened it for a bit.

Flock is a social web browser. Among its features it has a blog client.

Before they had a downloadable version, I seriously considered the competition with Flock. Now that I downloaded this app, I’m not afraid anymore. It won’t replace BlogJet.

Remember Mozilla Suite? It has a browser, a mail client, an IRC client, a web page editor, etc. – all in one. A few people used it. When Mozilla Foundation separated web browser from mail client – Firefox and Thunderbird, the user-base began to grow.

I didn’t use Mozilla Suite. Then I began using Firefox. I liked it so much that I downloaded Thunderbird to try. And I liked it too, so now I use Firefox and Thunderbird.

And while integrating social bookmarks with browser seems obvious, I don’t  know what other tools are doing there. Fashion? You know, all those cool words like social, RSS, blogs, tagging.

It may seem obvious that blog editor developer will say something like this, yeah? But, really, guys, I’m a user too, so I judge from my (user) point of view.

There’s also an argument that Flock will replace platform-specific apps. You know what? I’ve got a Mac. I use Safari, NetNewsWire, and ecto. No cross-platform apps here? That’s because I want to use only the BEST things, I want to get the most of every platform.

The bottom line: Flock have a cool browser (since it’s based on Firefox), great social bookmarking integration, crippled feed aggregator, and crippled blog editor.

I’ll stick to Firefox, FeedDemon and BlogJet.

P.S. But hey, I like Flock. Because they’ll show more people how to use blog editors. More people learn blog editors => more people want BlogJet . Thanks, guys!

P.P.S. Oh, and you can blog right from Firefox with this extension.

Nick Bradbury has a tip on TopStyle Tips blog on how to post to your blog from TopStyle using BlogJet. Read…

There’s a competitor to BlogJet. I won’t call its name but it has something to do with rockets and posts . One more hint: it costs $150.

I’ve noticed it when I typed “blogjet” in Google and found its AdWords ad that claimed: “Faster than BlogJet” (update: now it’s smarter ). He-he. I sent a letter to Google and ask them to remove this ad. They didn’t answer. That’s OK ‘cause I don’t care too much. Maybe I should put an ad on “blogjet” keyword: “Don’t believe this guy”?

OK. Today I surfed and found their page. What did I see? “It’s the only blog editor with WYSIWYG editing”. Ha-ha. Have you seen BlogJet? WB Editor? Qumana? Sure you have, since you advertise with “Faster than BlogJet” slogan.

The guy just doesn’t get the nature of the Web and the power of blogs. If you don’t tell the truth, somebody will notice it and blog about it. Then somebody else will see the post and blog about it. Then everyone will be blogging that you’re a liar. Do you want this to happen? No? Tell the truth.

MyProgs.net:

Purpose of this site is to keep here list of your programs. List can be categorized - using tags.

Now you can ask - why should I keep it here?

Because this site is 'social' - you can see if some other people use the same programs that you use, and see other programs they have in the same categories (tags) - find related / better programs, or you can look what are the most popular programs in specific categories (tags).

Cool thing!

Software Marketing Blog:

According to the article headline Russians Use Affiliate Model To Spread Spyware, Adware [an article @ Yahoo] realizing the extent of the spyware and adware problem and knowing Russian developers I find the title a bit misleading. Imagine the reaction from US developers if the headline read - Americans Using Affiliate Model etc... a little irresponsible of TechWeb if you ask me. The practice is very alarming and something the world should know about but the title is misleading.

Thanks, Sharon!

Heh, it’s like watching Hollywood movies about Russian mafia. Ten years ago most bad guys for movies came either from Russia or from Japanese. (Today, of course, they’re either Siths or agents Smiths).

My opinion: the author of this article just tries to find an enemy (“hey, spyware’s made by Russians”). You know, it’s easier to find an enemy somewhere outside than realize that corporations which make spyware are your neighbours. Of course, similar things happen in Russia, but mostly on political topics.

I hope that the SPY ACT will finally stop spyware, so that Yahoo won’t publish articles with such provocative articles. (You can read about SPY ACT @ www.spywareinfo.com)

NewsGator has acquired FeedDemon and TopStyle, and brought Nick Bradbury on board in the process.

Read more…

Great news for WordPress fans – WordPress 1.5.1 has been released. Please, everyone who has problems with posts, published by BlogJet, not showing on the main page, update to this version.

In yesterday’s post I’ve cited the short review of BlogJet from The Great Software List, which contained the comparison with ecto – another blog client available for PC and Mac. Someone might think that I did this to make a bad PR for my competitors. No. No way.

Let me cite Guy Kawasaki (Selling The Dream book):

There are two types of enemies: conceptual and tactical…

When I was sa president of ACIUS, our tactical enemy in the Macintosh database market was Fox Software. Both companies, however, shared a conceptual enemy: ignorance among people that Macintoshes can manage databases.

The problem for ACIUS and Fox Software was not achieving greater market share but expanding the market size. In this kind of situation, tactical enemies have to stop fighting each other and fight the conceptual enemy. For example, ACIUS and Fox Software could have jointly sponsored Macintosh database seminars to show people how Macintosh databases can improve their productivity. Then, when the pie was bigger, ACIUS and Fox Software could have focused on market share.

So instead of fighting each other, we want every blogger to know that she can improve her blogging productivity by using a blog client.

That’s why I joined with Yiyi Sun, author of another blog client – WB Editor, to create BlogClients.Info –  a wiki where any developer can write about her blog client, share information on blogging APIs, etc. (Are you a blog client dev? Go ahead and let others know about it!)

That’s why I want you to choose the best blog client for your needs. I’ll be happy if you choose BlogJet, and I’ll be happy even if you choose ecto, w.bloggar, WB Editor or any other – at least, I’ll know that you use a blog client and you understand how it improves your blogging experience.

Finally, if you use a blog client, tell your friends about it!

Matt, leading developer of an open-source project WordPress, publishes a response to the recent noise about wordpress.org spamming Google with more than 100000 articles.

Matt, we don’t care about all this. We just love WordPress

Ben Reichelt wrote an utility to schedule posts publishing with BlogJet, check it out here.

Thanks, Ben!

Seth Godin writes about software for Mac which upload pictures to your blog.

With BlogJet you can do this from Windows.

Terry Whalin has a great article “Chase Better Not New”:

…I want to work smarter and more effective. Some times, that means using a proven tool to become better. For example, I’m using BlogJet to write this post to my blog. It’s a proven tool which has been around and gives me flexibility to not write my post online…

Read it here.

I usually download and try out every competition application I can find. I do it to learn about something new, something great, something worth implementing in BlogJet. (Hey, Henry Ford did it too - he bought every car from competitors, drove, and even disassemled it!). I do it to make sure that BlogJet is the best blog client ever available.

During one of such Ford's testing I found an unfair and horrible practice that one of our competitors use. I'm going to describe it, but won't call the name of program.

I had my trial period expired, but the program didn't tell me about it. I typed an entry and then posted it. But the program refused to post and told me that I were using an unregistered copy, and that application would terminate. I clicked OK and it asked me to enter my registration data or purchase the program. The only other button available was Quit. When I quit, I lost my post. Hey, in order to not to lose my post, I have to register this program!

That's a bad practice. I decided to write about it not because it was the program of our competitor, but because I found such thing horrible and consider it as some kind of extortion. Okay, it can be an imperfect process of the registration, a bug or something else. But I don't care - I'm just a user of the trial version and I do not want to make a choice between losing data or purchasing the program right now. If trial period expires, I must be told about it!

This is my own opinion, and maybe they already fixed it, but I won't buy from developers that uses such methods to get me purchase their software.

This reminds me about some program (don't remember its name) that encrypts files on your hard drives and asks for purchase to get them decrypted.

My application BlogJet, as well as almost every other shareware program, has a 30-day trial period, and it reminds you about each day of this period. When the evaluation is over, it doesn't allow you to continue using it. But you won't lose your data. If you don't want to buy, but saved drafts of your posts, you can open your drafts with any text editor and copy text to your blog's web interface.