Today we are releasing BlogBridge 4.0. Yeah I know, BlogBridge 3.0 was only 3 months ago, but we’ve made such major progress on the product that we just couldn’t wait to get it into your hands.

So what’s motivating this? We’ve done significant tuning work on BlogBridge and we think most users will experience significantly improved performance - especially the crazies among you who subscribe to hundreds of feeds. (Ok, that’s our claim to fame, so I shouldn’t call you crazy - I am one of you

So anyway, performance is the big thing, but it’s not all. Check out the highlights of this release (compared with 3.0)

As a gentle reminder, here are the Top 10 Reasons why you should be using the (FREE!) Sync Service. An 11th is that it provides on extra level of safety when doing software upgrades of any kind.

How to update

The short answer is that it’s automatic. Users running 3.0 and 3.0.1 will be offered a chance to upgrade. You should just say “yes” and follow the bouncing ball.

(By the way, for those of you who are users of our “Weekly Development Release” will not see a lot new, because 4.0 is essentially - but not only - a rollup of the weekly releases. The majority of our users stick with the safe “Production Release” and it’s for you guys that we are getting this puppy out. )

As usual, please contact us directly (support@blogbridge.com) or over our forum (http://www.blogbridge.com/forums) if you have any questions, concerns or issues, at all!

BlogBridge new features:

• Digg Smartfeed (with microtag support)
• Article pinning, preserving articles as long as you like
• Now also able to ‘view only pinned’ articles, as well as create SmartFeeds looking for pinning
• Audio notification for new articles
• Almanac - BlogBridge community wiki for help and support
• Whole new BlogBridge web site (you’re looking at it!)
• Minimize to system tray (on Windows)
• New ability to sort Feeds by how often you (the user) visit it

Also, these improvements:

• Major performance improvements, all over the place: startup time, memory footprint, etc.
• Delicious Smartfeed gets Microtag support
• Mac native user interface improvements
• More and more keyboard shortcuts
• Synchronization of all preferences
• Improved integration with browser launch
• Full integration with BlogBridge Expert Guides
• Searching for users
• Feed Discovery to help librarians
• Now you can see the actual contents of feeds from the Feed Library
• Tag support in OPML import