Search Engine Portal and Directory, Lycos, Launches New Desktop Blog Editor

Updated on Thursday, April 6th, 2006 at 10:54 am

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Waltham, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - April 6, 2006 - A new desktop blog editing tool, powered by Qumana, is being offered by search engine portal and directory, Lycos.com.

According to the company, the new Lycos-Qumana Desktop Blog Editor enhances the freedom of blogging, allowing users to publish to their Tripod and Angelfire Blogs on Lycos, as well as to other major blogging sites, from the desktop. Additionally, the Lycos-Qumana Desktop Blog Editor works with Qumana’s Qads, an integrated ad program, allowing bloggers to insert ads into their blogs, while revenue from these ads is shared with the bloggers.

Alfred Tolle, CEO of Lycos, Inc. explained, ”If you’re an active blogger, the Lycos-Qumana Desktop Blog Editor now gives you the ability to post to multiple blogs with just one click, extend your blogs further reaching more people, and make more money from your blog content. With this new offering, Lycos continues to reinforce our strategy by offering content creators the tools needed to better showcase and market their independent content.”

Key features of the Lycos-Qumana Desktop Blog Editor include:
• Insert keyword-specific ads in one click and customize ads to blogs
• Edit old posts from any blog
• Offline editing to work at individual own pace
• One-click posting to one or more blogs
• Seamless publishing and cross-publishing
• Integration with all major blog platforms
• Easy image uploading
• Spell check and thesaurus

Fred Fabro, President of Qumana added, ”Qumana is a versatile and powerful personal publishing application that makes creating the content for an online conversation almost as easy as thinking and talking. Qumana is being put to use by an increasing number of bloggers around the world, and now this alliance with Lycos puts a free tool in the hands of its millions of Lycos users, helping them blog easily and instantly from their desktop to Tripod and Angelfire platforms.”

The new Lycos-Qumana Desktop Blog Editor compliments Lycos’ award-winning BlogBuilder tool first launched in Feb. 2003. Lycos BlogBuilder is intended to allow users to create a blog in minutes, with customizable designs, privacy features, mobile posting and the ability to easily add digital photos, video and sound clips.

For more information about the Lycos-Qumana Desktop Blog Editor, please visit: http://lycos.qumana.com/.