Three things I would want next for Radio
(I am independent from UserLand but I use Radio as my publishing platform):

1. Wiki publishing (Paolo agrees).
2. Photo album creation and publishing.
3. Modular templates.  This would allow me to select a module from a list (a second blogroll, a subscription list, a photo of the day, IM contact info, etc.), configure its use, select the side of the weblog it will appear on (depending on the template), order the module among the selected modules, and publish it. 

[John Robb's Weblog] 
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Okay, if you don't like to think about porn, avert your eyes...
There's going to be a big for-pay business around sex movies delivered via RSS, using enclosures and Adam Curry's brilliant idea for time-shifted downloads. The algorithm is implemented in Radio, and probably no other aggregator, at this time. Instead of grainy little postage-stamp-size Quicktimes that take forever to download, you'll get full-screen digital movies and no click-wait. There's real money to be made here. [Scripting News] 
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Trillian 2.0, webEdit & Jabber
I'm using the new Trillian 2.0 beta.  So far it seems stable (just like 1.0), not too different - although I love the new tonal sound scheme.  What I was really waiting for was the Jabber support.  This works seamlessly (even though it's implemented as a plug-in) and has allowed me to develop a new application.

Frontier has a webservice based code editing environment.  You can check objects out of the server, edit, then check them back in.  Although there is no version control it is a convenient way to edit server code.  However one of the issues is working out who is doing what.  I thought about a web page, or an RSS feed, but it actually seemed like a nice IM application.

Since Dave, Jake, Lawrence, and Jeremy had already done the work this was as easy as adding a call-back to the Frontier webEdit code that said tcp.im.send( message ) and Voila!  Instant notifications about who is working on what code.

[Curiouser and curiouser!] 
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Paolo Valdemarin: What would I like to see next for Radio
.... Dave is asking in a comment. It's a tough question.

I must admit that feature-wise I'm a pretty happy Radio user, it's a good blogging tool and a good development platform, it does what I need and much more.

Anyway, from what I hear supporting my Radio users and from what I hear around, here's what I think that would be interesting to do for Radio.

• Better images support: adding images to posts is a pain, especially for Mac users. Some kind of image tool that would allow to make image posting and management easier or to create nice pictures pages would probably help a lot of users to make their blogs more colorful (everybody has a digital camera today, and Radio is good at managing files, see below).

• WYSIWYG for Mozilla: Mozilla has some rich text editing support, which works both on Macs and PCs. It should not be incredibly hard to implement. Mozilla users are a minority, but with this feature enabled the number might grow for Radio users. Some alternative rich text editor solution (Flash? Java?) could be an alternative. Anyway it would be good to make text editing better and available to a wider audience.

• FOAF Support: FOAF is not wildly supported yet but apparently is gaining ground. A tool to edit my FOAF file and to add contacts to my network with one click would definetly make it more popular. Right now is mostly done by editing horrible rdf files with text editors.

• Leverage on the client side: afaik Radio is the only blogging tool which works client side. This can be a problem for some users (for example if you want to edit your site on the go), but it's a big advantage in many situations, where the integration with the local environment is important. Managing files on a weblog with Radio is just a matter of moving icons in folders, much better than everything else. Any feature that would leverage on this would make sense (i.e. images or files management, as suggested by Cristian).

HTH [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 
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Trackback for Radio
Jake reports that Trackback for Radio is now released. [Scripting News]

 
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