Blogwave Alpha 2 – features
This is an interesting tool that I saw on Scobleizer. My take is that it can publish a feed for you at a certain time (as Scoble points out if you're under an embargo and can't release information until a certain time). What I don't understand is how it might work with an existing blog like mine (powered by Blogware) or Blogger. I think this tool starts to move into the world of publishing from your desktop.
The response to the initial release of BlogWave was better than I expected – 1500 blog views and several hundred downloads in just a few days. Thanks to everyone who took the time to post or email me about it!
The improvements in the next release (Alpha 2) will be 100% driven by the feedback and feature requests I have received so far. The top requests have been (in order of popularity):
I'm the author of BlogWave, and while I'm always thankful to be
Scobleized, this time his description doesn't quite do justice to this tool's
capabilities. BlogWave isn't about scheduled posting – heck, every self
respecting posting tool does that nowadays. BlogWave *is* about
*automated* generation of RSS feeds from multiple data sources, such
Sharepoint Lists or event logs. Imagine pulling the “announcements” lists off of
your favorite internal/external sharepoint sites, combine them with an
RSS feed or two from the web, name the resulting feed “my daily summary
of “, and post it to .Text, an FTP site, a file share or a
Sharepoint site. Or multiple destinations. Or aggregating your servers'
event logs to a single RSS feed. You can schedule that to run without
BlogWave running in the background (no footprint whatsoever) or even
when you're not logged in! All without any server-side installations or
IT-staff involvement, with a simple and friendly UI.
If you want it to work with a blogware/blogger based site, that is easy too – you can have it pull items from your blog to publish elsewhere (cross-posting) or have it pull information from other sources and post items onto your blog (aggregation).
I'm the author of BlogWave, and while I'm always thankful to be“, and post it to .Text, an FTP site, a file share or a
Scobleized, this time his description doesn't quite do justice to this tool's
capabilities. BlogWave isn't about scheduled posting – heck, every self
respecting posting tool does that nowadays. BlogWave *is* about
*automated* generation of RSS feeds from multiple data sources, such
Sharepoint Lists or event logs. Imagine pulling the “announcements” lists off of
your favorite internal/external sharepoint sites, combine them with an
RSS feed or two from the web, name the resulting feed “my daily summary
of
Sharepoint site. Or multiple destinations. Or aggregating your servers'
event logs to a single RSS feed. You can schedule that to run without
BlogWave running in the background (no footprint whatsoever) or even
when you're not logged in! All without any server-side installations or
IT-staff involvement, with a simple and friendly UI.
If you want it to work with a blogware/blogger based site, that is easy too – you can have it pull items from your blog to publish elsewhere (cross-posting) or have it pull information from other sources and post items onto your blog (aggregation).
Addys,
Thank you very much for the clarification! I think I see the power in the tool now. The ability to aggregate information into my blog or cross-post is very powerful.
Thank you for taking to time to reply to my post.
Addys,
Thank you very much for the clarification! I think I see the power in the tool now. The ability to aggregate information into my blog or cross-post is very powerful.
Thank you for taking to time to reply to my post.