Company: Qumana Previous Profile: June 15, 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC Qumana Launches Update Feature Qumana (TechCrunch Profile) is a wysiwyg blog editor that works with virtually all blogging software. See our previous profile for more information, but you can drag and drop images, have the text look exactly like you want it to without html or formatting tags, and write and edit posts even when you are offline. In our opinion it is the best software out there to do this (note: others disagree), and unlike most of their competitors, it’s free. Yesterday Qumana announced a new feature: the ability to change previously published posts. Note that this new feature works with both Qumana and non-Qumana posts, so you can start using their software now and revise old posts that you wrote using your existing blog software. Additional Links: Feedwriter, Gagan Kaul, The Y Logs, Zoli’s Blog, Keith Stieneke → Read More

Company: Qumana     Location: Vancouver, BC   Launched: June 13, 2005   What is it?   Qumana is a wysiwyg blog editor. Most (ok all) blog interface software is less than wonderful to use, and even though html knowledge isn’t strictly necessary, you find yourself using code shortcuts more and more often to get things to look and act the way you want them to. Qumana is different – it works like a combination of Outlook and Word and is an absolute delight to use. In fact, I’m using Qumana right now to write this post. In their own words, “QumanaLE is a free blog publishing application that offers bloggers choice and control when writing for the Web – creating posts and inserting Technorati tags into individual items. QumanaLE helps writers quickly capture, organize and edit chunks of content. Users drag-and-drop pieces of text, links, pictures or images. Then, with one click you can add Technorati tags. Edit and publish the blog post … to as many blogs as you wish … or save it as a draft to work on later. Turn your content into a draft Word document by saving it as HTML or RTF and opening the file in Word – or QumanaLE – later.”   The download is quick (file size is about 4 megs), and including blogs is relatively straightforward. You’ll need to know where an “xml-rpc” file is if you are hosting your blog yourself or using one of the less well known services. But once you’ve located that and set up your blog, posting is a snap.   There are other wysiwyg blog front ends out there. I’ve personally used blogjet and ecto and found them useful but not useful enough to forego the standard wordpress interface we use. Neither are free (although they have free trials) - Blogjet is $40 and ecto is $18, and both lack features included with Qumana.   The biggest problem with all of these front-end options is that you cannot create categories/tags while posting – you must do that with your normal blog interface. This due to the shortcomings of xml-rpc, not the front-end software, so even Qumana can’t overcome this. However, they do have a very, very nice feater to automatically add Technorati tags to the post, which solves a big part of this problem. And you can always log into the blog interface after the post → Read More