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Regator Opens to the Public

After 9 months of development, Regator, the social blog aggregator slash feed reader opens to the public. We previously covered it’s private beta and updated you with changes and new features of the service.

Regator is not just unique because of its ability to serve a wide spectrum of users, it also has an unexpected method of selecting its content: human power. The thousands of blogs featured on Regator have been hand-selected and categorized by the editorial team for their quality writing, original content, frequent updates, and relevance. “We sort through the junk, so you don’t have to,” says editorial director and co-founder Kimberly Turner. Regator’s category structure, search options, and selectivity make it easy to find the things you need-and fun to discover things you never knew you wanted.

Check out the free service now.

Tags: blog aggregator, feed reader, regator

Regator Adds Features [ Invites ]

We covered Regator here at Orangeinks a couple of weeks back. The private beta blog aggregator of quality content received a lot of positive response from different blogs and early adopters. Along with those positive remarks are also requests to view their favorite blogs and upload their own OPML files in Regator. In preparation to their launching, they decided to give way to the request of the users while still keeping their goal in tact.

I received an email from Scott Lockhart, Cofounder of Regator, and he is happy to announce the additional features.

Regator users can now upload OPML files and add individual blogs to view on their personalized My Regator page, along with their favorite Regator blogs. In keeping with the site’s quality-over-quantity approach, these blogs are visible only to the user who added them. They are automatically nominated for inclusion in Regator’s main database, but are added and categorized for all users to see only if our editors determine that they have frequently updated, relevant, original, well-written content.

Sharing features are also added to the service. You can now share posts via Facebook, Twitter and email. Other sites will also be included in the near future. Regator also promised to provide users with their own unique URL to quickly share posts with friends.

Regator’s move certainly adds functionality to their service. Not only that they can stick to their goal of bringing quality content from the blogosphere, users can now really use Regator as their main blog feed reader.

Regator is set to launch publicly on August 6. If you can’t wait till the launch date to check out the service, here are 50 invites for Orangeinks readers. Just head over to their site and enter the invitation code: “orangeinks.”

List of Features:
• Share posts with friends via Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail (NEW!)
• Import OPML files or add individual blogs to view on your personalized My Regator page (NEW!)
• Browse Regator’s channel hierarchy to find quality content that interests them
• Save, organize, discuss, and rate posts
• Listen to audio and create playlists
• Watch videos without leaving the site
• Create custom RSS feeds
• Find out what the blogosphere is buzzing about with Regator’s What’s Hot List
• Create Keywords and have posts on those topics delivered straight to their personalized My Regator page
• Save and manage their Favorite Blogs and Favorite Channels
• View the highest rated, most commented on, or newest posts from all of Regator’s blogs-or within the topic of their choice
• Search the blogosphere for first-rate posts on any topic

Tags: Blog, blog aggregator, new features, regator

Regator: A Cool Blog Aggregator

I just got a private beta invite from Regator and got a chance to test the new service.

Regator is a web service that focuses on bringing the best and latest news in the web from blog sites. It carefully categorizes blogs depending on their niches and creates an interface which is both easy to read and navigate.

The blogs that you see in Regator are popular blogs and the ones nominated by the users and approved by Regator. If you don’t see your favorite blog in Regator, you can easily nominate it in its proper category and will receive a reply from the team if your nomination got approved or denied. By carefully selecting blogs to be included in Regator, clearly states that the service is after quality content and not quantity.

Aside from reading partial blog posts in Regator, the service also supports video and audio playback. You do not have to go to the video or audio site in order to view the featured media. Users are also allowed to comment on the articles featured in Regator. A list of related (or kinda related) articles is also included along with the featured post. This will give users the ability to select a related reading material aside from the current post that they’re reading. Saving a blog post can only be done in one click and you can also favorite a blog in the same manner. Once you have chosen a blog to be one of your favorites, it will automatically be added in your “My Regator” page. Saved posts can also be seen in your personal page. A personal RSS is also created for you so you easily read them in your favorite RSS reader. This is great if you are reading a lot of blogs and just want a single RSS feed from all of them. You can also view the feeds from each category by subscribing the favorite channels feeds.

Regator’s focus on blog content will give small blog owners with good content a chance to get more readerships from the Regator Community. This is an awesome new way of reading content from the blogosphere.

Note: Regator is still in private beta. I tried to get some invites for you guys but they are all out.

The demand for our private beta invites has been incredible. That said, we have given out all of our allocations to blogs that we had for this round.

* You can now view Orangeinks in Regator (It’s located under Technology\Industry\Startups).

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Tags: blog aggregator, regator, RSS, web service