Welcome To BlogRovR
March 28th, 2007 by marc
Activeweave is proud to announce the arrival of a new member to our family, BlogRovR!
Like to read blogs?
Give BlogRovR a try; RovR will quickly become your best friend for keeping your finger on the pulse of the blogosphere. It doesn’t take the place of any of the ways you already read blogs, it complements them. RovR tells you about content from your blogs when and where you’re most likely to be interested in it.
As you surf the web, RovR shows you what your favorite bloggers have to say about wherever you’re browsing.
Getting started with BlogRovR
You need to first register then download BlogRovR from www.blogrovr.com using the big button there.
RovR will offer to fetch blogs you’ve recently visited. Add other blogs you also like.
From then on, while you surf as usual, RovR searches all the blogs you’ve chosen for posts linking to any page you visit. When RovR finds posts, it briefly slides its tray into your browser showing you summaries of the posts it found. Click on a summary and a floating note opens over the page showing the entire post.You can read what your favorite bloggers have said about the web page you’re on without ever leaving it!
With RovR you can…
- read posts only on what you care about now!
- get trusted opinions, news, and commentary on whatever you’re browsing.
- quickly see what your favorite bloggers have ever said about a web page.
- see how your bloggers have tagged any page.
- read related posts, in-place, right on the page they’re about.
- quickly follow your bloggers’ links to other related pages
- add a blog you’re reading to RovR from any blog’s website (from the rover toolbar menu)
If you write a blog…
…RovR lets you surf with your readers wherever they go. You don’t have to do anything at all; your readers just need to have subscribed to your blog using BlogRovR and you can then interact with them all over the web, regardless how they get there. When they browse to any website you’ve blogged, RovR shows them your post!
If you’d like to have a direct line to your readers wherever they are, you can make it easy for them to add your blog to their RovR account with a chiclet on your blog like the one at the right on ours. Click here 
or on the chiclet at the bottom of any page on BlogRovR.com to make one.
Try it out…
Go to www.blogrovr.com and get started. And drop us a line and let us know your impressions and feedback.
I can’t figure out how to import my opml. also is true that the max is 100 feedS? that’s not much.
Hi Marcel, thanks for trying blogrovr. There’s no 100 blog restriction. We show you 100 at a time on the homepage to not overwhelm you. Page numbers at the lower left of your blogrovr page will get you to subsequent 100 feed pages.
As for the opml file, once you’ve got an opml file on your machine, from your blogrovr.com signed in page, click BROWSE to tell us where it is on your machine, then click IMPORT and we’ll add the feeds to your RovR list. Simple!
Send us email at feedback@blogrovr.com if you still have questions, and enjoy using blogrovr!
I have tried stickis earlier. blogrovr sounds just like stickis. I wonder what’s the difference?
[…] BlogRovr is an interesting new way of getting blog information, on the go while you’re surfing the Web. It is a download plugin for Firefox 2.0, which works cross-platform on Windows, Mac and Linux. There’s no IE plugin for now, but support for IE6 and IE7 is coming soon (a couple of weeks away). BlogRovr is basically a personalized vertical search engine for every page you visit - processed in real-time. How it works is that once you’ve downloaded BlogRovr, when you surf the Web BlogRovr is busy working in the background ‘fetching’ related blog stories for you. Keeping with the canine theme, the BlogRovr blog says that BlogRovr is “your best friend for keeping your finger on the pulse of the blogosphere.” […]
markH, blogrovr is a simplification of stickis, without the social and talk back to the web abilities. This has let us simplify the interfaces and explanations just for blogs, making it easier and more obvious to use.
You’re right, Stickis provides all the functionality of blogrovr and more, and is a good direction to move in once you decide you like the way we deliver blog based information into your browsing experience, and want to augment it with the commentary of your “crowd” and talk back to them all over the web as well.
[…] BlogRovr è un servizio che vi consente di creare un blogroll personale “attivo” che agisce nel mentre navigate sul web. Quando visitate una determinata pagina web, BlogRovr scova al suo interno tutti i contenuti che provengono da ognuna delle URLs che avete inserito nel vostro blogroll: potete inserire blogs, RSS feeds e liste OPML. Il servizio funziona sulla base di un plug-in per il browser che visualizza, per ogni pagina web che state leggendo, tutti gli articoli ed i commenti ad essa correlati che provengono dai vostri bloggers preferiti (sempre a patto che abbiate le loro URLs nel vostro blogroll). Ciò vi consente di avere una più ampia visione d’insieme su qualsiasi argomento vi interessi. BlogRovr non è un classico feed reader [Ulteriori dettagli] […]
Hello,
I would love a whatsit for my toolbar that would let me add a blog I am on to my Rovr list with one click. Pretty please? with a dog biscuit on top?
Suzanne
Hi Suzanne,
We currently support this via a drop-down option list from the BlogRovr toolbar button: when you are on a page that exposes a feed, you can click on the small arrow to the right of the BlogRovr button, and select the option labeled “subscribe to this blog”.
You can see it in action in our FAQ, under “Subscribing to blogs”: http://www.blogrovr.com/faq/
I hope this is what you’re looking for - otherwise, let us know!
[…] Stickis (review) - tag your stickis - have your own blog like stickis stream, - others can reply to stickis (sticky conversations) - when you visit a webpage you can see summaries of stickies from your network via a tray (reminds of of BlogRovr, as any page you visit, you will get blog posts from your subscriptions that have reviewed that page..actually they are from the same family) - also has a feature where you can subscribe to blogs, maybe this feature is like the BlogRovr service. […]