As you can see, we’re growing, and have been lucky enough to get Marjolein Hoekstra to join us as “RSS Topic Expert.”

If you are interested in RSS (“Really Simple Syndication”) you should check out this new BlogBridge Expert Topic Guide.

Here’s Marjolein’s own blog and some really interesting backgroundabout some of the techniques she uses to create and maintain her recommendations.

Technorati Tags: RSS

There’s a cool podcasst called: “The Java Posse”. In their most recent epidsode:
“Java Posse #073″ of August 1 2006 they select BlogBridge 3.0 as their application of the week!.

Cool! Thanks!

C|Net has an article claiming that: Blog feeds may carry security risk.

Personally I think this is a bit alarmist. I’ve not done a count, but I think most aggregators don’t execute Javascript encountered in RSS Feeds. In fact the quality of the HTML found in RSS is so bad that I think most of us do some major scrubbing and cleaning to get it to be meaningful.

BlogBridge does not process Javascript and thus is not vulnerable to this attack. I bet this is true of many if not most of our esteemed competitors.

In general though I think it’s much more likely that malicious Javascript affects pages displayed in the Web Browser, so the focus correctly should remain there.

Here’s some cool news that I’ve not talked about much yet: the addition of several new Expert Topic Guides:

• Mike Kolowich, of DigiNovations is contributing as our expert in Video Production
• Dan Weinstein, an English Professor is contributing as our expert in Education
• Mark Anderson, a professional cartoonist is contributing as our expert in Cartoons & Cartoonists
• Francois Gossieaux, of Emergence Marketing is contributing as our expert in Innovation
• Daniel O’Reilly of SigmaInverse is contributing as our expert in Financial Markets

As you may know, the BlogBridge Topic Guides are now available directly on our web site, so you can browse around, looking at these new experts as well as all the rest of the wonderful collection of feeds and blogs that we’ve assembled.

Feel free to look around and subscribe to the good stuff, whether you use BlogBridge or not!

Now if you happen to use BlogBridge (likely, since you are reading this post you can access this same collection directly from BlogBridge whenever you are creating a Guide or subscribing to a Feed or Reading List. Sweet!

In honor of Wikimania which is starting tomorrow in Boston, we’ve produced a list of some of the best Wikipedia related blogs and feeds.

Click here for the BlogBridge Topic Guide for Wikipedia

Click here for the OPML for that same set

Yes, this is not scientific, but I took all feeds that I could find mentioned in Wikipedia, filtered for how high the Technorati rank is, and also scanned the feeds (and I really mean scanned) to exclude some that looked irrelevant, and ended up with this list.

Naturally these lists will work with any OPML compliant aggregator, but if you subscribe to the list through BlogBridge, then your list will update whenever our list updates. Cool.

By the way, please send me any other blogs or feeds that should be listed, and any that don’t belong and I will gladly update the list.

(If you are wondering about the software that’s running our Topic Guides website, it’s our recently released Feed Library… Check it out!)

Technorati Tags: wikimania, wikimedia, wikipedia

I will be doing another Skypecast, this time about BlogBridge release 3.0. I will also be covering some ideas for the future roadmap for our products, and mostly answer any of your questions.

I’d like to ask everyone to come and participate in this FREE conference call. All you need is your FREE Skype account, which of course all of you already have!

Click to see the details of the Skypecast on the Skype web site!

We just released a quick update to BlogBridge with some critical bug fixes which were interfering with certain new user installations. You will be offered the update automatically so just sit back and enjoy! We hope the extra download isn’t too much of a hardship for you, and apologize if it is.

Technorati Tags: blogbridge

• Core: Important database-related fix
• Core: Giving better suggestions when restoring database
• Core: Not showing feed is invalid dialog sometimes