We continue to find more and more experts, as well as adding additional topics to our collection! Here are pointers to some of the most recent ones. Check them out!

[A brief note about BlogBridge Topic Guides: these are carefully selected collections of blogs and feeds, organized topically. Many of them have outside Expert curators. There are many ways to use these Topic Guides. You may want to browse them in the usual way, or select certain feeds to read with your favorite aggregator, or grab the OPML (reading list) of the collection about your topic of interest and use it with your reader. Of course they are all directly accessible from inside our BlogBridge client as well.]

The people at DZone have created a section inside of our library covering the most popular sites DZone users talk about, as well as feeds from topics of interest to developers from the DZone site.

Pop!Tech is one of the best annual conferences, held in Camden Maine, every October. They attract the best and the brightest intellects, many of whom are bloggers. Here is the BlogBridge Topic Guide of Pop!Tech Bloggers and associated sites.

Social capital is “the collective value of all ’social networks’ and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other”. Here is our new BlogBridge collection of Social Capital topics from our expert Heather Ross on this interesting topic.

Facebook is the hottest thing among the digirati these days. If you are involved with Facebook as a user, a developer, a competitor, or just an observer, check out our great collection of the best blogs covering Facebook.

If you are reading this blog, and/or using BlogBridge, I am going to bet that you’re a reader. You will be interested in Kathleen Gilroy’s newly developed collection of her favorite blogs and feeds for readers and book lovers.

I don’t want to say, if you love cocktails and other alcoholic drinks you will definitely be interested in our new expert Gabriel Szasko’s take on the best blogosphere coverage of Cocktails and other imbibables. Gabriel runs the very popular CocktailNerd site and blog.

From Cocktail Nerd to Ruby Nerd, here’s another one in our series of programming language specific collections of blogs and feeds. Check out our Ruby Programming BlogBridge Topic Guide, this one curated by yours truly.

Robin Good and Michael Pick present a detailed and very complimentary review of BlogBridge 6.0. They offer a lot of great information and seem to like BlogBridge 6.0 a lot. This is from the introduction and summary:

“[…]BlogBridge, however, packs in some best-of-breed features to its free, open and cross-platform RSS feed aggregation software - now including some powerful meme-tracking capabilities that can help you to tune into what’s hot in your content niche.[…]

What BlogBridge has added to the trend is personalized tracking of the most highly discussed news items right inside its free RSS reader, along with some other great new features. This means that you can instantly get an idea about what all of the bloggers and news sources in your list of RSS feeds are talking about most.

Add to that some impressive stats and metrics capabilities, keyword highlighting, post filtering, great looking RSS photo albums, del.icio.us tagging and “SmartFeeds” (allowing you to create thematic newsradars on just about any topic you want), and you have a very capable RSS reader indeed.

Take into account the fact that BlogBridge also has a fully-functional and direct publish-to-blog capabilities, which I reviewed back in June, OPML import and export, and a considerable amount of other features and this is why this is one RSS reader, news aggregator and newsmastering tool well worth checking out.”

I recommend that you read the full posting - it’s more than just a review of BlogBridge 6.0, it’s really a great 2 page introduction to our product and vision. And thanks to Robin and Michael for taking the time and care to write a great and informative article.

Yes, sportsfans, we are very proud to announce that BlogBridge 6.0, (in our opinion) the most powerful blog and feed reader, is now available for immediate download. This is the culmination of 6 months of intense development, innovating in many areas, and refining, speeding up and smoothing out others (look at our full change history)

We think BlogBridge is the most powerful blog and rss reader

To our loyal users, thanks! — for your continued support. And if you have just come across BlogBridge we encourage you to give it a spin.

We know there are lots of different ways to keep up with feeds, blogs and there’s a reason we feel it’s the most powerful tool for real info-junkies.

Ours is a unique combination capabilities focused on people, mere mortals, who are finding that they have to keep up with a ridiculous amount of information. Take a look at BlogBridge’s Visual Tour to learn about BlogBridge’s unique features. Look for cool stuff such as What’s Hot (our built-in Meme tracker), SmartFeeds, Reading Lists, Integration, and more.

BlogBridge is Free, Open Source and runs on Windows, Mac AND Linux

Yes indeed, BlogBridge is free and runs on your platform. Give it a try.

Here are some links to follow up on:

• So what’s unique about BlogBridge?
• Mac installer
• Windows installer
• Other installers
• References
• Some background

Hope you love it! Give it a spin!

• Core: Lots of fixes and performance improvements

Do you read Seth Godin’s Blog? Check out this post from Seth’s Blog:

While I’m at it, I think we’re on the edge of two big software breakthroughs. The first is programs that live on the web instead of your desktop (I know, we’ve heard a lot about how this is the next big thing, but it’s almost here) and second is in desktop software that is truly web-aware. That knows the definitions of words. That can update and correct and conform my address book. It’s all still lousy, all still in the dark ages, but there are glimmers of hope.

(from: Data vs. Software)

It caught my eye because it touches on something that comes up from time to time with BlogBridge: why is it not a pure web based application? It comes up enough that I’ve posted a FAQ about it. The short story is that I think both have their place but for what we are trying to do with BlogBridge, only a desktop app would do.

In fact I claim that BlogBridge is “desktop software that is truly web-aware.” More than just knowing definitions of words, or whatever. It extensively (and transparently) makes use of web services (like technorati, del.icio.us, flickr, wordpress, as well as the BlogBridge native web service. In fact this Blog post is being written directly with BlogBridge.)

Still in dark ages? Yes, lots of room to do better.

Technorati Tags: desktop software

Andy Payne of blog.payne.org likes BlogBridge: “…If you need to cover a lot of blogs, it’s the way to go. It’s free, open source, and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.” (see BlogBridge: the power-user blog reader). Andy was one of the founders of Open Market, among many other accomplishments.

Statistically I am guessing that you are looking at BlogBridge because of a pointer from an article by Chris Garrett, “Top 10 Tools I can’t live without”. (They say that 71.03% of statistics cited are invented ON THE SPOT…)

Here’s Chris’ introduction to his article:

“We all have our own unique ways of working. A large part of any persons individual productivity is the tools they use. Here is my top 10 Must Have Tools (and why), please add yours in the comments!” (from Codswallop, “Top 10 Tools”)

After you try BlogBridge, here are some other parts of this site that you might find interesting:

• Visual tour and “Can your aggregator do this?”
• Mac Installer - native Mac installer
• Windows Installer - native Windows Installer
• Other Installers - BlogBridge runs on any system that supports Java
• Collection of Screencasts - BlogBridge demos and instructional clips
• References - What people are saying about BlogBridge

Let us know how you do. If you like what you see, show your support for this great free application by mentioning us in your blog, emails, web sites, and yeah, even in person!

Technorati Tags: Statistically, Chris Garrett

Techmeme is the venerable ‘meme tracker’ site for technology fans. (If you are in technology and you haven’t seen it, you owe it to yourself to check it out.)

Techmeme just introduced a “leaderboard” feature that has gotten a good bit of coverage - basically a list of its top 100 sources over the last 20 minutes — blogs and feeds and sites represented at that particular moment on Techmeme. The idea is, if you are interested in the stories that surface on Techmeme then you might be interested in the most influential sources of those stories.

A nice bonus is that Techmeme offers the leaderboard as an (OPML) reading list. Use that in combination with BlogBridge’s ‘Subscribe to Reading List’ command and you get something quite interesting. A BlogBridge Guide which dynamically contains the top 100 most influential feeds and their articles. (I don’t think you would necessarily read it article by article, but it’s a great source for SmartFeed filtering.)

Technorati Tags: Techmeme, leaderboard, OPML, reading list, BlogBridge Guide, SmartFeed