BlogBridge Reviewers Guide

BlogBridge is a powerful product. Few users need every capability, but the promise of being the Feed and Blog Aggregator for professionals is delivered by the synergy of all of them.

If you are exploring BlogBridge, here is a list of all the key features and capabilities that you should make sure you check out.

Support for publishing and subscribing to Reading lists and OPML

  • Full support of OPML
  • Subscribe dynamically to OPML reading lists
  • Publish your own OPML reading lists
  • Import and Export to OPML

For bloggers and other publishers

  • Direct post from BlogBridge to your favorite Blog server
  • Support for Movable Type and WordPress
  • Ability to simultaneously post to multiple blogs [BlogBridge Pro]
  • Post link, brief extract, or whole article
  • Categories and Post as Draft

Support for different platforms

  • Windows, Mac and Linux supported with identical user experience
  • Mac specific support: Dock Icon, Growl support, OS X support
  • Windows specific support: Tray icon and menu

Using SmartFeeds to intelligently create new feeds from existing ones

  • SmartFeeds based on text in article, title of article, date and category, name of feed, name of guide, number of starz, pinned status and more
  • Ability to chain together multiple SmartFeeds to form a funnel [BlogBridge Pro]
  • Duplicate elimination [BlogBridge Pro]

Filtering all that content

  • Keyword highlighting in articles
  • Starz ratings on each feed,
  • Global filter to show only feeds rated to a certain level
  • Sort, color code, or hide Feeds based on unread status

Rich searching

  • “Find” window, with background incremental search
  • Results organized by date or by type

Sanity enhancing Utilities

  • Feed Cleanup Wizard
  • Unread marks on articles, customizable automatic mark unread
  • Import and export in OPML
  • RSS 1.x, RSS 2.x, Atom 1.x, OPML 2.x
  • Tip of the Day

Focus on user experience and usability

  • Photo-feeds displayed as a photo album
  • Drag and drop support throughout
  • Extensive keyboard shortcuts
  • Filters: All Articles, Unread only, Keyword hits only, Pinned only
  • Article formats: Headline only, Brief summary, Full body
  • Pin Article to keep it from being purged

Supplying content to get you going

  • BlogBridge Topic and Expert Guides
  • Rich library of feeds and reading lists
  • “Suggest” function when creating a Guide, adding a feed, or subscribing to a Reading List
  • Automatic discovery of new blogs from links in articles

Integration with other services

  • Single click to tag an article in del.icio.us
  • SmartFeeds for Technorati, Flickr, Feedster, Del.icio.us, Monster, Amazon, Connotea, Digg, Findory, Google and more.

BlogBridge’s own behind-the-scenes service

  • Save and restore subscription lists on multiple computers
  • Save and restore personal preferences
  • BlogBridge private tagging service
  • OPML Reading List publication
  • Discovery of rss URLs from arbitrary URLs (used in background)

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