Exclusive: Blue Dot’s Newest Feature for Bloggers, “Dot to Your Blog” With Images!
Posted in Blue-Dot on March 6th, 2007 by Eric FranklinI believe that I’ve got the exclusive scoop on this new blog-posting feature from Blue Dot [you must register and get an account to currently see the set-up form] as I was one of only a couple “closed-Alpha” testers. Lucky me, I was just given the go-ahead to let people know about it, before Blue Dot has even announced it on their own blog.
As a blogger, one of my main challenges is finding the time to post frequently enough to keep my blog fresh. On the days where I don’t have much time, Blue Dot’s new feature is a great help. I can get up in the morning, read my rss, find the stuff I think my readers will enjoy, dot it, and it will show up on my blog, complete with images! No formatting madness or fuss.
Here’s a picture of my post from earlier today:
Blue Dot’s newest feature allows us bloggers to keep our sites fresh and timely with minimal effort, using any dots we’ve created during that day. It automatically takes your dots from the last 24 hours and posts them to your blog at a time of your choosing. Del.icio.us has had something like this for a while (and I’d been using it) but it’s relatively flat and lifeless by comparison. Blue Dot’s has everything that del.icio.us’s solution has, bit it includes several things I think make it significantly better:
- Images - Blue Dot’s posts to your blog include the images from your dots. Good bye lifeless bookmarks! Hello, pictures!
- Tag Filtering - Ask my friends, I dot a lot. Blue Dot let’s me pick a tag for filtering the dots I want to show on my blog. In my case, I use the tag “thepugetnews.” Anything I tag with that gets posted to my blog each afternoon.
- CSS - You can add some Blue-Dot-specific css to your style templates and control the look to a greater degree than the competition.
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Full disclosure: I was let into the closed-Alpha because I used to work at Blue Dot and requested this feature quite a lot. I am no longer employed there but I am incredibly excited that the feature is now available. Thank you, Mohit, for taking it on!