Just got an e-mail from a user reporting that Qumana works just fine with Vista RC1.  He also reported (chuckle) that he downloaded and tried (hee hee) Live Writer (chortle) and it didn't (gloat)!

So it appears (and we haven't done any testing ourselves, mind you) that Qumana will work just fine for you early adopters trying out Vista.

Can any other Vista testers out there confirm this?

Tags: Qumana, Vista, Live Writer

Aha !  The payoff for hours spent trawling Technorati and Feedster so as to respond to questions or complaints about Qumana.

There have been reports of problems getting Qumana to post appropriately to the new beta pf Blogger (performancing For firefox, too).

Here's a hack, complete with screen shots, that shows how to address the problem. Thanks, bothack !

It's ridiculously easy.

I find that desktop and online blog editors and publishers like Qumana and Performancing Fox are unable to automatically configure the all new Blogger Beta.

When you perform the same actions you did for your normal blogger blog in Qumana you get an error stating “unable to integrate Blogger API”

All you have to do is, go back a bit and in the manual setup change “http://www.blogger.com/api..” to “http://beta.blogger.com/api…”.

Yes! Introduce a beta instead of www and everything goes fine.

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Jon posted already about the new version, but I thought I'd also do a little podcast about it too (18 mins, 12 meg MP3).  Intro music is by Derek Miller outro by Sarah Harmer.

Enjoy!

Tags: Qumana, Qumana 3.0b5, Qumana podcast, podcast

Well if it's okay for the guys as Performancing to write a review, it must be okay for me too.  So Live Writer is out in the wild, I was pinged on Sunday when it came out and announced on Techcrunch.  My first thought, of course, was "uh oh", I'm going to have to try this ASAP.  So I did.

I'll first welcome the Live Writer folks into the blog editor family.  It's a fun group and I think we're all after the same thing, a better experience for bloggers.  So, what do I think.  Pretty much that it's not a completed product.  There are some nice features (like live-ish preview of the post as it would appear on your blog) and copy and paste image handling.  But it reminds me a lot of Qumana v2.  That was a great product and had a lot to offer but Qumana v3 b4 has even moved beyond that benchmark.

I think the greater question is, really, how many people are going to try and stick with Live Writer?  Right now you can't easily tag your posts (Qumana can), it doesn't download your previous blog posts pre-Live Writer to open and edit (Qumana does), and the add a blog wizard could be a lot better (I think ours is pretty slick).  Oh and Live Writer doesn't have a build-in way for your to make money from your blog (Qumana, check).  Use a Mac?  Live Writer isn't for you, but Qumana is.  Don't like .NET?  Sorry Live Writer requires it, but Qumana uses Java,

So, which would you choose?

Fred Fabro, our fearless leader and CEO, was quoted in the Seattle PI (also repeated on Newsfactor) about Live Writer:

"The one thing that Microsoft brings is a lot more awareness to the fact that blog editors exist," said Fred Fabro, chief executive of Qumana Software Inc. in Vancouver, B.C., which makes the Qumana desktop blog-authoring program. "Of course, I'm not happy about having Microsoft as a competitor, either."

Tags: Qumana, blog editor, Live Writer, offline editor

... will by definition mean advertising on your MySpace space.

As everyone who doesn't already know will find out soon, Google and Fox Interactive Media (FIM) have struck a deal whereby Google take over the search and advertising functions for MySpace, which will no doubt focus on delivering advertising into and onto MySpace.

It has to be assumed that part of that deal will be the use of Google Ads in the same way that they are being used by bloggers in the blogosphere.

Via The Hollywood Reporter

FIM links to Google in ad pact
By Chris Marlowe

Fox Interactive Media entered a $900 million search and advertising deal with Google on Monday that will substantially help the News Corp. subsidiary recoup the cost of acquiring the MySpace and IGN Web properties.

Sources report that top News Corp. executives began shaping the agreement while at their annual retreat last week in Pebble Beach, Calif. On Monday afternoon, News Corp. president and chief operating officer Peter Chernin said the final agreement had been signed "less than six hours ago" after several days of concentrated negotiations.

"This deal is the next step in our evolution as a significant interactive player," FIM president Ross Levinsohn said. "Forming a strategic partnership with one of the most innovative companies in the world to expand our business together, monetize our platforms effectively and leverage our combined scale will provide substantial growth for our businesses."

The three-year agreement calls for Google to take over the provision of search and related functions across all FIM sites with the exception of Fox Sports, which is not included because of an outstanding contract with Microsoft's MSN. Many of these functions previously had been provided by Yahoo! Inc.

You just have to believe that MySpace will put Google advertising at the disposal of the millions of MySpace users who create and share whatever it is they share on MySpace.

Well ... using Qumana and Q-Ads  you can already advertise on MySpace ... you can inject ads served up by Q-Ads directly into posts you can then publish to your MySpace page.

Just ask Jeneane ... she punked Qumana and MySpace both, by figuring out how to use Qumana and Q-Ads "in reverse", as she described in her recent post Punking Qumana

Ads with Posts Wherever You Go

Ads in MySpace? You can't do that! Yah well, it's my blog, and I don't know all the ins and outs, but I can put keyword ads in MySpace using Qumana in about 1.5 seconds.

Just type your post in Qumana, insert a Q-Ad by clicking the Insert Ad button, the insert your tags, and finally copy the text in Qumana's Source View into your MySpace blog.

Bingo--Your post is formatted, tagged, and even has an ad, all using one copy-and-paste from Qumana. NICE options to have. 

Hey, she also mentioned a bunch of other ways she has found to make blogging so much easier using Qumana.

Now, if only MySpace would provide the blogging community with an API so that we wouldn't have to take that last step of copy-and-paste

Tags: MySpace, Google, AdSense, Qumana, Q-Ads

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I was recently at BlogHer, an amazing conference for women bloggers (and some men too) in San Jose. The first day I blogged a lot of the technical sessions. Using Qumana of course. Here I am in action, jotting down notes in very complicated but beautiful bullet lists...

This is the final post: Primp your blog.

Tags: qumana, qumana in action, blogher