In Brief

If you’re the impatient type, here’s the gist of this post: We need a few people to help us take the application for a spin and tell us how it works or if it sucks. Head over here to register. You will recieve an email in a few days with more instructions.

In Full

First of all, I’d like to thank all of you for making BlogSpirit version 1 such a success. All the little links you’ve been putting on your blogs, the banners, the hype, the word of mouth, we appreciate. Without you, it would be just another in-house application atrophying on our computers. So, yeah, thank you bloggers, you guys ROCK!

Now, there’s some exciting news.

BlogSpirit Version 2 is almost here!

Yup, and we’re just as excited. Why?

The New Features

1. Multiuser support
   BlogSpirit now supports multiple users. This means you can login and choose which blogs you want to follow. You can also add your own feeds, not neccessarily Ugandan. Or you can just choose to view the public feed, which shows all Ugandan blogs on BlogSpirit.
2. Personal settings.
   With the new BlogSpirit, you can make personal settings that are only visible when you login. Like you can mark articles as favourites and view your favourite articles, with one click. No more scouring the web looking for that one article you liked so much.
3. Support for Tagging
   You can tag articles and posts within BlogSpirit. This will not affect the original article, but only the article database in BlogSpirit. This makes searching through blog posts a lot easier.
4. Feed Categorisation
   BlogSpirit now has support for categorisation of feeds, so you can label your categories as business, news, humour, etc and then sort your feeds into those categories.
5. Email Digest
   You can choose to have BlogSpirit deliver an email summary of the latest blog posts straight to your inbox.
6. A better feed engine.
   We moved from Gregarius to Tiny Tiny RSS, a better all round feed engine. This means updates will be faster and less sporadic.

There’s lots more in the pipeline, but first, we need your help.

Since the new BlogSpirit has much more extended functionality, it inevitably means there are likely to be bugs, features and functionality that we haven’t yet fixed, but which require real world usage to fix.

So we’re opening a private Beta testing phase for the new BlogSpirit.

We need a few of you guys to head over here and register for the private beta testing. In a few days, you will receive another email telling you how you can access BlogSpirit version 2.

In lay man’s terms, basically, help us take the application for a spin and tell us how it works or if it sucks.

Please sign up here.

Thank you!

The Node Six Team