Dear user, meet our new site! The site, meet our user!

Finally, we did it! The transition of the content to a new site has been finished and you can see the results. Isn’t it looking good? I know the new things always look better, but they are not necessarily so. So, if you feel that something is broken, not at the right location or just doesn’t fit your expectations, let us know. We are constantly growing and any your feedback is always highly appreciated.

Now, go over new site and tell us your opinion!

BlogBridge does NOT sit on top of your email inbox!

We think that your email inbox should be kept for your most mission-critical messages - work related/action-oriented information or financial information, just to name a few. It becomes counter-productive when our inbox gets cluttered with non-time sensitive information coming from email versions of newsletters, magazines or even email subscriptions to Blogs. That is why we choose a client-based solution.

BlogBridge is NOT a web destination!

There are many reasons why we felt it more important to have BlogBridge be a desktop application rather than a web-destination. The first reason is that most information which you aggregate with your reader gets consumed when you have the time to do so - and that may be when you are not online.

Another reason for going with a client-based solution is that there are already too many web-places for us to “go to” during the day in order to stay up to date - there is the corporate intranet, our financial institutions, our school bulletin boards, you name it. We did not want to add another destination to your list.

And if your worry is accessing your subscriptions from multiple computers, BlogBridge comes with a service that enables you to work from multiple computers - so that you never have to worry about keeping track of your read/unread or new subscriptions if you access the service from both home and work.

BlogBridge helps you DICOVER the right information!

Blogbridge is not just a reader. You can pre-configure BlogBridge with your keywords, and you can tag feeds along with other BlogBridge users. That combined with some server-based collaborative filtering (think Amazon recommendations) - enables BlogBridge to discover new feeds for you as well as to filter those postings within your feeds in order of importance for you to read.

Invisible but major is a total rearchitecture of the storage subsystem, to be faster, more robust and easier to maintain. Also of interest is a new Activities… window allowing you to monitor and control downloads going on in background. We hope to have 1.2 available as the next Weekly build, on Friday, April 22.

We are extremely happy to be able to announce BlogBridge 1.0 today.
Considering the fact that we have a combination application/behind-the-scenes service, we are now talking about the BlogBridge “system” instead of the BlogBridge “reader”. Here is a list of features included in version 1.0.

Feeds

• Subscribe from url and from drag and drop
• Suggested list of Feeds
• BlogStarz Recommendations and Ratings
• Sort Feeds by BlogStarz, Unread, Keyword matches
• Filter Feeds by BlogStarz, Unread, Keyword matches
• Community info: Country and other community tags
• Article purge limit

Articles

• Styled text and image displayed in place
• Keyword highlighting
• Undiscovered Feed highlighting
• Discovered Feed highlighting
• Unread handling: go to next unread, mark all as read, etc.
• View Article: Full, Brief and Headline only
• Show Articles: All, Unread only, and Keyword matching only
• Analyze URL to locate the associated Feed
• Group articles by date

Guides

• Drag and Drop
• Suggested Feeds
• Customized Icons

BlogBridge Community Service

• Synchronize subscriptions and preferences between multiple computers
• Synch Now, Only Load and Only save options
• Support Feed discovery and caching
• System and Utilities
• Rich text and graphics display
• Import and Export to OPML
• Settable Keywords
• Settable external browser
• Settable UI Themes
• Automatic mark as read options
• Customizable BlogStarz weights

David Weinberger - one of our advisors - announces BlogBridge 1.0 and likes it (here).

Richard MacManus over at Read/Write Web just finished reviewing the Jupiter Report on RSS readers.

It was written in three parts and contains really useful information.

We got a pretty cool mention on Scobleizer. Check it here.

…”nice easy-to-use open source RSS aggregator.”