Bleezer makes the news!
You can read about Bleezer in today's edition of The Record:
Larry Borsato's Bleezer is generating buzz. "It is not very pretty but does a damn fine job with most of the major blogging tools," Business 2.0's Om Malik says.
You can read about Bleezer in today's edition of The Record:
Larry Borsato's Bleezer is generating buzz. "It is not very pretty but does a damn fine job with most of the major blogging tools," Business 2.0's Om Malik says.
Welcome to everyone who is here as a result of Rick Segal's VC 2.0 part 2 post! And thank you Rick for pushing me into a more expensive web hosting plan. I may need to take your money after all. ;-)
It's not money, but time that is in short supply. Well okay, I can always use more money too. And if anyone at Sun wants to give me $1 million, I'm happy to chat. But this past week has been one of trying to do so much that there just isn't enough time. If you're looking for screenshots, as a couple of commenters have noted, there aren't any yet, but I hope to get some up this week.
On Friday the local paper interviewed me about Bleezer, about open source software and giving back to the community, on business models, and on the insanity of wasting my time on something that doesn't make me any money. I didn't need PR; they called me. And of course last week you had never hear of Bleezer or me, and now you're reading this and perhaps downloading and using my software, so I've gained much more than just money.
The goal I had when I created Bleezer was something I like to call "everyware", software that runs everywhere you want it to, on any platform. So I also spent Friday getting Bleezer to work on the BlackBerry. It's not all there yet, but it will be soon.
So download Bleezer, try it out, and make suggestions. It is only 2 months old, and it will be improving quickly. And if you're a budding artist who wants to see your work on people's desktops and is willing to do a little work for free, drop me a line.
Enjoy!
This new version of Bleezer:
Thanks to all of the people who have downloaded Bleezer, especially those who have sent suggestions in.
I spent the better part of the day trying to fix a problem with Bleezer, my blogging client. I had to set a Java system property. Of course everything worked just fine in the development environment, but it failed miserably outside of it.
Turns out that I had the property name spelled incorrectly, and what do you know - apparently that matters.
A new version with a few new features should be available in the next few days.
There have been some reported issues with Blogger, primarily on the Windows platform. It seems that the XML parser used in Bleezer behaves differently in Windows than in other platforms. We're looking at the issue now.
Also, it seems that some of Blogger's security certificates have expired, which may cause users to be unable to access their Blogger blogs. Folks using Performancing have noticed this as well.
There are three people who deserve thanks for suffering though the early incarnations of Bleezer:
- Andrew Anderson (Bound By Gravity)
- Ken Dyck (Ken's Meme Deflector and Startup Fever)
- Mack D. Male (MasterMaq's Blog)
Their comments have helped me improve the product tremendously in a very short time.
Well we're already up to version 0.9.5.2, which provides improved tag handling, better trackback pinging, faster posting, and a few bug fixes.
The project I've been working on for the past couple of months - Bleezer - is now ready for prime time! Well, as ready as it's even going to be. :)
If you are a blogger, Bleezer will give you the ability to post to all of your blogs, regardless of what service you use, on any platform you want. The Bleezer website also has a blog so that you can keep up with new features and versions.
By shipping now I'm putting into action something Guy Kawasaki often says:
Churn, baby, churn. I'm saying it's okay to ship crap--I'm not saying that it's okay to stay crappy. A company must improve version 1.0 and create version 1.1, 1.2, ... 2.0. This is a difficult lesson to learn because it's so hard to ship an innovation; therefore, the last thing employees want to deal with is complaints about their perfect baby. Innovation is not an event. It's a process.
Hey, it may just be crappy software today, but It's going to churn like crazy. Planned features include WYSIWYG editing, structured blogging, and more. And it's free!