AirPress – to ease blogging
Even in its Beta stage, I think, AirPress must have its potential to be a platform to blog. It can support WordPress and other blog softwares.
Nowadays, most of bloggers need to access a web interface to write blog posts and “publish” them. They need to backup their database and software periodically in order not to lose their years of effort. It’s not a very easy job. In addition, you can not blog when you are offline.
Two years ago, a China-based blog community – i170.com, developed an offline blog software which was tightly integrated with their online blog+community. It’s very attractive to their users, like me, which could be used not only to blog and archieve, but also to manage RSS feeds. So i170 guys call it a knowledge management platform. From some time last year, i170 changed their free policy for their blogging tool. I don’t know what’s the current functionality just now.
AirPress will change the game plan. If you make yourself more open and accepted by the users, you will be busy making money. If you are busy making money, you will lose your users.
The below is their features:
* Custom / animated windows
* Embedded database for offline read/creation of posts
* Detection offline / online
* File I/O API for saving FLV webcam videos record
* ActionScript / JavaScript Script bridging to interact with the text editor made in HTML/javascript.
* Drag and Drop Support for the media (pictures, sounds, videos, flash animations…) you want to insert in your post.
* Network communication with the blogs via XML-RPC
It’s wonderful to write your blog everywhere and archieve them safely and conveniently in your harddisk. It’s the right approach of combination of web2.0 plus tradition. A little bit minus is that it requires Adobe AIR, a beta software too.
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