This morning my pal Pito gave me a tour of the about-to-be-released Blogbridge 6.0. Blogbridge remains my favorite aggregator. It runs on the desktop but can be easily synchronized from computer to computer. When the firmware update fried the logic board of my Macbook Pro last week, I downloaded Blogbridge to Harry’s Macbook (my emergency back up machine) and sychronized with my stored bookmarks and was good to go.

Blogbridge 6.0 has some great new features. The two main improvements are:

What’s Hot and Statistics.

What’s Hot canvases all of the feeds in your aggregator and then gives you a nice summary of what is being actively linked to. This morning when I fired up Blogbridge 6.0 and scanned the what’s hot menu, I found a pointer to Bit Torrent’s new content delivery service. It just popped up, no scanning through lots of feeds on my end. This is definitely how I’m going to start my day with Blogbrige.

The statistic’s feature tracks how you use Blogbridge and lets you know where you are spending your time. This is also a nice way to monitor my own usage.

There were also significant performance improvements in this version of Blogbridge. It loaded very quickly.

At this point, I could not live without an RSS aggregator. And while I’ve tried them all, I keep coming back to Blogbridge. It just works really well for me.

And I just signed up for the highest level service plan, which allows me to publish directly from Blogbridge to my blog. Very nice integration with wordpress.

Pito says Blogbridge 6.0 should be released shortly. You can download 5.1 here. (It is free.) And track the rss feed for the blogbridge blog to find out when 6.0 is officially released.

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