• BB - GUI: Post to Blog. Improved text filtering before posting to blog
• BB - GUI: Post to Blog. Added Unicode support
• BB - GUI: Post to Blog. Holding CTRL when calling command gives mode popup
• BB - Net: Post to Blog. Added Drupal support
• BB - Net: Post to Blog. Added Roller support
• BB - GUI: Added view mode key. shortcuts (’5′ - mini, ‘6′ - brief, ‘7′ - full)
• BB - Sync: No returning feeds after sync (if the URL was being redirected)
• BB - GUI: Updated service page in the installation wizard
• BB - GUI: Shift-Delete never asks for confirmation when removing feeds
• BB - GUI: Hiding disabled feeds even if they are not initialized yet
• BB - GUI: Fixed the layout of the “Authentication” and “Delete Feed” dialogs
• BB - GUI: Fixed the doubled unread button in the Guides list
• BB - SF: Added intelligent duplicate articles check in SmartFeeds (Publishing Plan)
• BB - GUI: Added pin to the search dialog
• BB - SF: Added Google News Smart Feed

Hi sportsfans, just wanted to give you a pointer to the great new detail we’ve been putting up on our site.

If you want to keep straight all the products and services we offer (yeah, I confuse myself sometimes too!) take a look at our Products and Services page

How about learning, in more detail, how our new levels of functionality for micro publishers will work and how to sign up for them? Take a look at the note describing How BlogBridge Service Plans enhance BlogBridge

Right now, we are targeting BlogBridge Desktop 5.0 for the official launch and ability to sign up for different service plans. Some of what we are writing about is already available in the weekly BlogBridge release. Here’s how you get signed up.

If you are willing to tolerate some bugs and rough edges, please write me and I will set your account up for a 30 day trial of the publisher level. By then we will have released BlogBridge 5.0 Desktop and all will be official, but until then you can play with some of the early stuff if you like!

Yesterday I began adding a lot of new content to the site. You might be interested:
There’s a new description of each of our products and services to help you understand the scope as well as the names of each:

Overview of BlogBridge products and services

And we explain in far greater detail the different consulting and advisory services we offer:

New description of our Consulting services

Hope that helps everyone understand better what we are about. Please send me an email if you have feedback or further questions. Today we will continue adding a lot of new information.

We’ve recently started revealing some of the new stuff that I alluded to in the last couple of posts. The significant new thing you can play with right now is “My BlogBridge”, visible at the top right on this site’s navigation menu. My BlogBridge is (will be) the hub of your web based BlogBridge Services functionality.

If you are currently a BlogBridge user and have signed up to the BlogBridge service, you can try logging in right now. Use the email and password that you got when you signed up through BlogBridge Desktop. Alternatively you could sign up from My BlogBridge for an account. (Why would you do that?)

[For clarity from now on we will be referring to the traditional BlogBridge client as BlogBridge Desktop]

So what’s going on here? Starting with BlogBridge 5.0 we will be offering enhanced services and, and in a shocking shift, we will actually be charging for those. Yes, I know, you’ve gotten used to free-free-free but what can I say, we have to pay the bills too, ya know?

Our mental model is a little like Cable TV (although much cheaper.) BlogBridge Desktop client is like your TV Set. It does lots of wonderful things out of the box without the need to sign up for cable.

But you can get the same TV to do lots of new and useful things by signing up with a cable service who offers various plans.

Fear not, unlike your TV Set, the BlogBridge Desktop client (the thing you download and run on your own computer) remains free and functional.

What changes is that the BlogBridge Service now gets different plans of service. There will continue to be a free plan.

N.B. Here is where I should nota bene that all service levels, features and prices and features are subject to change at any time for any reason. The description that follows is what we will have initially, for Release 5.0 of BlogBridge.

It’s important to note that the BlogBridge Service tiers enable and augment the features of BlogBridge desktop (Like the TV Set and the Cable service)

BlogBridge Service Plans

• Free - Fully functional and comparable to what everyone gets today.
• Basic - Limits are removed on number of guides, feeds, and syncs
• Publisher - Specialized features are added of interest to micro publishers

You can see the nitty gritty of these tiers here (once you log in.)