For Bloggers - Functional Demo of “BlogSpirit”

Posted by Benge Solomon King on Wednesday 6 August 2008 6:10 am
Categories: Development, Innovation, Internet Applications, Node Six |


“BlogSpirit” is just a working title, name ideas would be helpful.

We have a functional beta ready. The inhouse feed aggregator was not going to stand up to the stress of a million blogren logging on at once, so we’re building on another open source RSS framework called Gregarius.

http://www.nodesix.net/blogspirit/

We’ll be adding the additional features with time.

Let us know what you think so far.

28 Comments »

  1. Comment by 31337 — August 6, 2008 @ 10:00 am

    the aggregator looks superb, works well so far though i have not had time to register and test the read/unread functionality. i had the idea to do an aggregator too but i was pressed for time, brilliant work!

  2. Comment by savvy — August 6, 2008 @ 2:05 pm

    I like it already, now off to read..i wonder if i shall be able
    to keep..

  3. Comment by Benge Solomon King — August 6, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

    Hello 3, Savvy,

    Thanks for the positive feedback. I’m glad it’s working for you guys already.

    Keep checking and let us know if there’s something we can improve on.

  4. Comment by Sleek — August 7, 2008 @ 5:25 pm

    Great work Solomon..Always leading the way. Ok, ima sign-up..

  5. Comment by Mr. B2B... — August 11, 2008 @ 5:48 pm

    Hey SoloKing
    this is dope
    it beats reader by far….

    i’m on

    just wondering about the 10k a month plan

    oh, i saw elemental age (or is it edge) on tv i.e. the graphics and stuff)

    kudos….

  6. Comment by Benge Solomon King — August 17, 2008 @ 10:50 pm

    Hello Mr B2b,

    Thanks for the feedback. Keep checking for updates.

    I’ll send you an email shortly concerning the monthly plan.

  7. Comment by Darlkom — September 1, 2008 @ 5:42 pm

    I live on this site but you have a blog missing. http://ugandascarlettlion.blogspot.com/

  8. Comment by Benge Solomon — September 1, 2008 @ 10:52 pm

    Thanks Dee,

    Blog added. 82 and counting.

  9. Comment by Darlyne — September 22, 2008 @ 1:11 pm

    Hi Solomon,

    I moved to http://deeinanutshell.wordpress.com

  10. Comment by Benge Solomon King — September 22, 2008 @ 2:49 pm

    Hey Darlyne,

    I’ve added your new blog.

    Thanks!

  11. Comment by McTim — September 23, 2008 @ 9:02 am

    Blog on golf in Uganda @ mctim.blogspot.com

  12. Comment by Benge Solomon King — September 23, 2008 @ 1:03 pm

    Hey McTim, very interesting stuff you’ve got.

    I’ve added your blog.

    Thanks!

  13. Comment by esquire inc. — September 28, 2008 @ 9:16 pm

    this is one excellent idea. I no longer have to hop from blog to blog to find who has posted what. Interestingly i had suggested this to Ivan a couple of months back and we had started initial work but then here you come and carry it to completion! Excellent Solomon and thanks for this.

  14. Comment by esquire inc. — September 28, 2008 @ 9:20 pm

    Oh forgot to add. I do have two blogs. You do have my poetry blog but i have another one: http://sunshine-esquire.blogspot.com/
    Thanks Solomon.

  15. Comment by Benge Solomon King — September 28, 2008 @ 11:05 pm

    Hello Wasake, thanks for dropping by. The aggregator is just the first step. We’re working on more features.

    I’ve also added your other blog.

    Cheers!

  16. Comment by Jeff — September 29, 2008 @ 10:10 am

    http://www.wapiuganda.blogspot.com

    Blog on WAPI Uganda. A British Council initiative for promoting underground talent.
    Please add it to your blog list

  17. Comment by Dante — October 15, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

    Is it possible to create an atom/rss feed to the aggregator? I know i know lazy of me, but i miss so many blogs cuz i resigned myself to feeds as opposed to browsing. An implementation of your compilation would be awesome.

    Cheers

  18. Comment by Golf_Mania — November 10, 2008 @ 7:09 am

    thanks for this information.. i cant wait to sign up!

  19. Comment by esquire inc. — November 10, 2008 @ 2:40 pm

    Hello solomon, has my blog been rated XX? Noted that there is no feed from a post made yesterday. Otherwise thanks for all

  20. Comment by Darlkom — November 10, 2008 @ 11:48 pm

    Please add http://soupkitchenuganda.wordpress.com to the blogroll and I second Dante on the RSS feed

  21. Comment by Darlyne — November 23, 2008 @ 5:06 pm

    Solomon, still waiting on the banner announcing BHH on Thursday.

  22. Comment by val — January 13, 2009 @ 5:57 pm

    Better late than never…

    This is a brilliant idea..much easier to read blogs now

  23. Comment by Carsozy — May 19, 2009 @ 10:51 am

    Hey King what it do? am doing fine myself but just thought I’d let you know that my blog switched to wordpress, ie carsozy.wordpress.com, could you make the adjustments on blogspirit

  24. Comment by Clara K — May 30, 2009 @ 10:06 pm

    this is an amazing idea! I just stumbled upon it a few hours ago and can’t wait to have my blog show up here too! ;)

    Interesting pieces of art!

  25. Comment by santosh — July 31, 2009 @ 2:32 pm

    hi King, I dint knw tat u were a celebrity!! hehe its great thing to come up on radio!!
    hey nice meeting u yestday at BHH…good work bro…how do i get to add my blog onto this site?..formalities ne?
    santozz

  26. Comment by Bwandungi — August 8, 2009 @ 1:30 am

    I’m blogging somewhere else as well! African Fiction - Magic Realism.

    A new chapter every week!

    http://imnotwhispering.wordpress.com (Nature’s Way)

  27. Comment by Coco — August 9, 2009 @ 1:14 am

    i love the whole idea of putting all this wonderful blogs together in one place! :D.. Keep up the good work! we’ll keep doing ours too.

  28. Comment by Darlkom — August 13, 2009 @ 9:08 pm

    Hey, could you add http://xiona.wordpress.com/ to the blogroll. She’s a new blogger.

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