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View Article  Flock... It won't replace Firefox, FeedDemon and BlogJet

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

Flock - Blog Editor

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.

View Article  Interesting...
Nick Bradbury has a tip on TopStyle Tips blog on how to post to your blog from TopStyle using BlogJet. Read…
View Article  BlogJetThis for Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

I’m happy to announce that an updated BlogJetThis! Firefox extension which is compatible with Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 available.

You can find it on BlogJetThis page of our wiki.

This extension will be available in the upcoming BlogJet 1.6 final release.

Update: Just want to give a credit to James Avery and Grant Carpenter for creating the original BlogJetThis extension. It’s their extension that was modified by me.

View Article  Competitor is a liar? The power of telling the truth.

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.

View Article  Blogging from a train
Life's a Beach:

I’m trying out Blogjet http://blogjet.com which lets you blog when not connected to the Internet and the upload your words of wisdom when back home. As I spend much of my day sat on one of these (see pic) with a laptop and no Internet access that might be useful – no I’m not counting the days until One Railways introduce wireless broadband on the train...

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View Article  Should your software firm jump on the blog bandwagon?

SoftwareCEO has an interesting article: “Blogmania: Should your software firm jump on the blog bandwagon?” (free access only this week).

View Article  BlogJet and Movable Type 3.2
If you can’t make BlogJet work with the recent beta of Movable Type 3.2, read this article.
View Article  Social program list

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!

View Article  How to setup IIS, PostToSpaces and BlogJet to post to MSN Spaces

Detailed instructions with screenshots:

http://www.geekswithblogs.com/jemimus/archive/2005/07/16/47180.aspx

Thanks, Robert, for instructions
and thanks Robin for PostToSpaces.

View Article  MSN Spaces API
MSN Spaces will have MetaWeblog API in the near feature.
View Article  Forum feeds

Recently added RSS feed for BlogJet Forum. So now you can get updates on discussions directly to your news aggregator.

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View Article  WordPress 1.5.1.3 Released

The new version of WordPress released.

They fixed some important security problems with XML-RPC. I tested it with BlogJet and I’m glad to report that it works well.

View Article  MSN Spaces
A trick to post to MSN Spaces from BlogJet. Requires Windows .NET hosting.
View Article  Graduated
Last week I graduated from the Moscow Instutute of Physics and Technology. So I’m no longer a student – I’m a full time BlogJet developer!
View Article  My Interview
Tim Coyle publishes an interview with me.