Updated August 20, 2008 As you may know, BlogBridge offers a large, comprehensive, human-edited collections of blogs and feeds. This library is available from right inside BlogBridge (click “Add Giude” and then “Suggest”) or directly from our web site, even for non-BlogBridge users: BlogBridge Topic Guides We are always updating this collection, sometimes with objective topical collections, [...]

Robin Good has a great new article on his blog about a topic near and dear to our heart: “News Aggregation and News Mastering.” As usual with his writing, there’s a nice step by step exposition of a topic that can quickly get confusing for beginners. I believe Robin himself originally coined the term newsmastering: “What Is [...]

Here’s an interesting story about how Comcast is following a broad collection of blogs, forums, and other social media and trying to get on top of customer gripes posted there: “From a sparse desk dominated by two computer screens in the new Comcast Center here, Mr. Eliason uses readily available online tools to monitor public comments [...]

Over the last week there were two very positive mentions of our Feed Library product which I would like to share with you. First of all, on the always excellent App Gap blog, Bill Ives covers BlogBridge Feed Libraries, from the perspective of Enterprise 2.0. He says: “The BlogBridge Feed Libraries can be the ’web content directories’ [...]

It is common to come across a blogger who thinks just like you do, or who covers a topic you are interested in as well. Wouldn’t it be nice to easily learn what other sources that blogger reads and admires? The best way to know that they respect another blog is that they link to [...]

Continuing my introduction of features that are new for 6.3 (and I acknowledge right up front, require a Publisher level subscription) is Sentiment Analysis. Now in my title I put the word Analysis in “quotes” because true analysis requires a level of language dependent natural language processing which so far is beyond our grasp. But we [...]

BB - PTB: Added templates engine with an editor to the “Post To Blog” feature BB - Core: Added Sentiments Analysis feature (Publishing level) BB - Core: Improved reliability of feeds parsing BB - Core: Fixed minor navigation issues BB - Core: Fixed odd behavior of the Cleanup Wizard when a guide is selected BB - Core: Added “Discover other [...]

We just released BlogBridge 6.3 as our next ‘weekly’ release. One major new thing there, for users of our Publisher edition, is customizable Post to Blog templates. In addition to the built-in Full, Brief and Minimal templates, now you can create any number of additional templates. Let me explain. The Post to Blog feature closes the loop [...]

Just a quick notice that two of our topic experts, Michael Kolowich and Bill Ives have updated their respective Expert guides. The Digital TV & Video Production guide, by Michael Kolowich, covers the full chain of the video production and distribution process. You’ll find a rich and interesting set of pointers to blogs and other [...]

We’ve just released a new ‘development release’ - BlogBridge 6.1 with some nice new goodies, requested by many users. Better Smart Feeds As you can see below we’ve refined the display of Smart Feeds in several ways. As you can see in the screen shot below, the article ‘9 People and Their Laws’ is picked up in [...]