Well, here we go again! We are really happy and excited to let you all know that we’ve just released BlogBridge 3.0, which is the update to BlogBridge 2.16 which we released on April 7, 2006, so about 3 months ago.

BlogBridge 3.0 now will alert you when it receives new articles, new feeds and new guides. We’ve implemented this in a ‘platform sensitive‘ way.

On Windows XP and Linux, we use the standard ’system tray’ and on Macintosh OS X we use the ‘Growl’ notification facility.

The alerts include how many articles have been added, how many Feeds have been added, and into how may Guides.

BlogBridge 3.0 now now works with the new ‘BlogBridge Guides’ web site, where you can browse and search and the large collection of suggested Guides and Feeds that you get with BlogBridge.

The same Feeds and Guides you see on our web site are presented to you from inside BlogBridge.

They are presented to you through a “Suggest” button:

• when subscribing to a Feed
• when creating a new Guide
• when subscribing to a Reading List
• and upon initial setup of BlogBridge

BlogBridge 3.0 is now ready to be translated into national language. Our initial translation is into Russian, as Aleksey speaks Russian

Even there we encountered some interesting challenges with our buzzwords like Guide and Feed.

By the way, if you’d like to help us translate into other languages, please let us know. It’s pretty easy (once you know the other language, of course

BlogBridge 3.0 now permits users to ‘Pin‘ an article. This has several helpful effects.

First of all, Pinned articles never get purged, so they stay in  your database forever. Also there are special SmartFeed parameters to limit a search to only Pinned article. And if you use our cool Find feature, Pinned articles are called out separately.

BlogBridge 3.0 includes a nice new shortcut for people who like the Toolbar provides a one click ‘Synchronize Now’ command.

For those of you who aren’t yet using the Synch feature, why not? It’s free and easy, and useful for more than just saving your Subscriptions to our Servers. Check it out!

Those are just some of the highlights of BlogBridge 3.0. There are lots of other small improvements, refinements, new features, performance improvements.

Not to mention that BlogBridge 3.0 should be even more stable on whatever platform (Windows, Mac or Linux) you prefer.

Oh, and did I mention that it’s FREE?

Click here to download and try the latest BlogBridge 3.0!

Users of BlogBridge 2.16 as well of those of you using the weekly development release will be automagically upgraded.

Please do send us your comments, feedback, complaints and requests. Enjoy!

ONE MORE THING: See this ‘DIGG’ link? Click it! If you like BlogBridge, how about helping the cause and Digging us. If you’ve never done Digg before, try it, it’s fun, quick and free to sign up.

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