Phew, it’s good to see long-time ghacks readers liking the idea. :)

RG I’m pretty sure that you can get involved. We are currently collecting all kinds of suggestions and ideas to see where we go from here.

Yep, diversity is good word for it. It is mix of software from three blogs which are not completely common but have similar readership that is interested in similar things (judging by flows of traffic between us).

On participation mail me details contact@rarst.net

No promises, I simply pile those request for now in separate folder. :) Which direciton Appnews will expand in should be decided later when it gets some ground.

Glad you like it. :)

@BillB

On Apr 27 there were probably several million blogs updated on Internet. Why should you bother reading ghacks if those other blogs give you so much more?

1. Apr 27 “instance” was freaking launch date. Older updates in feed are from initial testing while site wasn’t live.

How many updates Snapfiles provided on first day? :) Oh, I also saw Snapfiles added Everything search utility yesterday. About… five months after ghacks and Freeware Genius covered it? So up to date.

Still, it won’t compete with software portals because Appnews is not a software portal

2. If youг had missed that in description Appnews doesn’t aim to provide updates for every software title in the world. It provides updates for software previously covered at participating blogs.

Basically it is service tailored to our readers.

So while subscribing to Softpedia will bring you daily updates for all software on the planet, subscribing to Appnews will bring you updates for software me, Martin and Samer considered worth attention and for which we wrote review (or in some cases numerous posts to cover indepth).

It is intersection between our blogs to give our readers more information. Not a world domination project. :)

I applaud your efforts, but the other sites seem to be more complete. Can you help me find a reason to continue to use Appnews?

Nah, tech bloggers are simply secret cloning project, they all look alike. :) If not bless of different WordPress themes people wouldn’t tell as apart.

Great idea guys. Look forwarding to following your updates.

>I was just thinking about an idea exactly like this!
I hear that a lot at my blog. My ideas are probably very generic. :) Or I just tune up well with my readers.

Ops… Extra bits crawled into Twitter links since I last checked if they work, Promptly fixed! Thanks for the catch.

It’s a little hard for me to trace because I am Opera kind of a person. :)

Are using Firefox feed view (light-yellow on top and feed items below) to subscribe? You are not seeing it because Appnews feed has “browser-friendly” option enabled that overrides Firefox preview.

To get Firefox preview on such pages you should click “View Feed XML” on FeedBurner page which in case of Appnews points to

http://feeds.appnews.net/appnews?format=xml

Was that your issue? I will look if I can tune it to be more Firefox-compatible.

Yeah I meant subscribe with Firefox rather than using google etc. I like my favourite feeds on the toolbar.

NVM it works fine now, I think I was probably just having a dim moment :)

Thanks!

On feed – hard to find it on Appnews site (I think I properly stuck it everywhere I can) ? Or hard to subscribe in Firefox?

Unfortunately RSS feeds are consumed in so many online and offline clients that it is not possible to provide subscription instructions for everything.

Not particularly sold on the theme though.

Also, although I managed it via trial and error, it’s a bit tricky to figure how to add the feed to the firefox bookmark bar.

Shy? Me? :) It was only week of work for joint project with two extremely known and popular blogs.

I just think I am getting very tasty deal here. ;)

For the record the whole site part was your idea, I only suggested joint feed.