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For those of of you who can’t seem to get enough of new Facebook Apps, here’s a good one for you. Although, you have to actually be a person who blogs, to use it. Blog It is a Facebook application created by Six Apart (the people behind Movable Type), which allows Facebook users to compose ‘quick’ blog posts and broadcast it to any of the 10 external blog platforms and posting services currently supported, all this from within Facebook itself.

In a way, Blog It turns your Facebook account into an easy single channel for you to update your scribblings across various platforms around the web. It should be noted that Blog It is one of the rare Facebook applications that has an external function from the Facebook site and to me, this brings a refreshing feeling to Facebook which I think is getting pretty dull for my taste. If anything, it should make Facebook a little more attractive as a social network site, particularly to bloggers.

You can add Blog It to your Facebook account here.

What services can I post to?

Well, the list of supported platforms includes all the major blogging and miniblogging platforms such as Movable Type, TypePad, Pownce, Twitter, Blogger and WordPress. The full list of supported platforms is listed on the side. You can add as many supported platform accounts as you like, and select the ones which you want a post to appear in, when posting an entry. Users should find that adding and managing blog accounts in Blog It is very simple and straight forward, without all those unnecessary and distracting advertisement and promotional links which have grown pretty synonymous with Facebook Apps.

As for features, it currently lacks the ability to post pictures in posts, and a rich text editor - which is by now a standard tool for bloggers to write posts - is not present. Keep in mind that it is still just a Facebook application.

Well, that is probably the most lacking thing about Blog It. The concept of creating a central channel for bloggers to manage and update posts is certainly a noble idea. In fact, too noble for it to confine itself to being ‘just another Facebook app’, in my opinion. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Facebook. I just always think that a successful Facebook application adds very little value to those successful applications in terms of visibility, outside the confinements of the Facebook community. This is a very limited approach to profit from web application development, and Blog It could probably make a bigger hit if it were a standalone web application. Well, at least thats what I think..

So, what are your thoughts on Blog It and its features? Do you think it would strike as more attractive as a standalone web application instead?

(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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