Monthly Archive for January, 2009

Need More Bscopes? You Can Have It!

By Brad on January 27, 2009 in Bscopes Features and Concepts and Freemium Business Model. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Bronze Silver and Gold User Levels

Bscopes is, first and foremost, about helping bloggers manage their information overload. We have seen that some of our users are already hitting the limits on their free Bscopes accounts.

Introducing Bscopes Paid Memberships

Today we are adding three new levels of Bscopes memberships: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Of course, you can still continue to use Bscopes for free. You always will — that’s a promise. But, when you need more, now you can have more.Each membership level gives you more of the Bscopes capabilities you need:

  • Larger feed subscription limits
  • Bigger Bspaces with more feeds in each one
  • More frequent updates of Bscopes and Bspaces
  • Larger sized graphs
  • Interactivity: click through Bscopes and Bspaces
  • Ad Free pages

Additional Features To Come

More and more features are coming to Bscopes. As they are added, Bronze, Silver and Gold members will continue to get access to more of them with fewer limitations.

Simple Monthly Subscription

Signup for any Bscopes paid membership level in just 30 seconds. Bronze membership starts at $4.99 per month. Your credit card is billed automatically every month. And you can upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. There is no commitment; no contract.

Feedback, please!

As always, we are interested in knowing what you think. Please take a moment and post a comment on this post and let us know what you think about the new membership levels.

Organizing and Updating your Bscope’s Feeds

By Brad on January 23, 2009 in Bscopes Features and Concepts. 2 Comments Tags: , .

Visualizing Your Mental Blog Space

We’ve now created a single, central page for updating all of a subscription’s attributes. You can now organize and manage the feeds you’ve subscribed to in Bscopes. This gives you a kind of mental map of the space that represents your feeds

Getting Organized

A screen shot of the organization page is shown below. I’ll use numbers to guide you through the features. Number 1 Every RSS feed in your subscription will be listed down the page. Next to the feed title Number 2 is the current rating that you’ve given that blog. Want to change a rating? Just click on a star.

Oranziation Screen

And directly underneath each feed are the sets of tags that you’ve given each feed. To add, change or remove a tag for a feed, just click on the edit button that appears when you mouse over the feed Number 3. Changes are immediately reflected on the organization page through the magic of Ajax.

To remove a feed from this list, just click on the delete button on the left of the feed’s name Number 4. It will no longer appear in your list or your Bscopes and Bspaces. Of course, at any time, you can always add that feed or any other back into your list of feeds. You can get an idea of each blog’s popularity because the number of subscriber’s are shown in the far right column Number 5 of the table.

We have a few other ideas simmering on the burner. More importantly, though, we’d like to know what you think. Post comments here on the blog with your experiences organizing your feeds in Bscopes.