I mentioned the rise of “bloglets” and blog services in my post on Blogging at Berkman. I would suggest that “bloglets” are services or capabilities that you embed in your blog, like BlogRolling, while blog services are capabilities that help enhance your blog experience such as Andrew’s SYO applications. They operate the way “portlets” provide services within a portal. Here is a bit more.
At the Beckman meeting, Andrew Grumet introduced us to one bloglet, w.bloggar that provides a MS Word like interface for your blog writing. According to its site, “the w.bloggar is an application that targets to be an interface between the user and his blog(s), in other words, is a Post and Template editor, with serveral features and resources that the browser based blog editors can not offer. Because it's a software that runs over Windows GUI it allows the user to edit his posts without being connected to the Internet, saving locally one or more texts to be posted in the future. It can be minimized to the Tray bar as an icon and everytime the user wants to publish a new text, he just need a click and has the editor ready to work, finished the text, another click (if connected) and the post will be published.”
In the Apple world, ecto operates like w.bloggar. According to its site some of the features are “intuitive interface for creating and editing weblog entries (customizable with spellcheck, syntax-coloring, and find-replace) and full local control of recently posted entries and drafts (with search function).” According to the wbloggar site, here is even a media player blog plug-in for the Apple iTunes made by Bill Zeller.
At the Beckman meeting Shimon Rura showed his blog services application, frassle. I covered some of the blog search tools in a prior post and I will continue to cover these applications as I learn more.
Another bloglet, this one named "Bloglet." You place a subscription form on your site. Your readers subscribe through this form. Every day, readers receive a single email from Bloglet informing them of your site updates
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