Five Across, which is headed by the guy that headed the teams that created iPhoto and iMovie, launched a new blogging system today, called bubbler™. It’s available for Mac OS X and Windows.
I took it for a spin. You can read my Bubbler test blog to see my discoveries, but the bottom line:
- No permalinks (at least, not ones that are exposed)
- No good way to create hyperlinks (other than pasting the naked URL into the post)
- No ability to add an image inside a post
- No RSS feeds. Or Atom feeds. No syndication feeds at all
Summary: This isn’t a blogging tool. It’s a nice home page builder.
That said, I do like the reporter feature, a streamlined UI to create postings that are automatically datestamped—awfully handy if you liveblog. And of course, this is beta one. It’ll be interesting to see where it goes from here.