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# Qumana 3.0 Beta out; state of the blogtoolosphere
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/qumana-30-beta-out-state-of-the-blogtoolosphere/
- Published: 2006-02-11T18:28:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:44:02.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: Flock, Technology, Web building

[](http://www.qumana.com/?ref=chrismessina.me)Qumana has [released the 3.0 beta](http://blog.qumana.com/blog/%5Farchives/2006/2/10/1754153.html?ref=chrismessina.me) of their blog editor, touting the following features:

- a "blog manager" that locally stores your drafts and published posts
- support for trackbacks and pinging
- improved editor with valid XHTML, plus ability to view and edit code
- a way to refresh the editor ('New Post') - to clear away published material and start a new post instantly
- improved image dialogue, including preview and auto upload trigger from Drag & Drop

Looking through their [Tour](http://www.qumana.com/tour%5F01.htm?ref=chrismessina.me), there's some remarkable similarities in their workflows to how we've solved similar issues in Flock ([adding a blog](http://www.qumana.com/tour%5F04.htm?ref=chrismessina.me), [tagging](http://www.qumana.com/tour%5F12.htm?ref=chrismessina.me)). This suggests to me that there is some consolidation and consensus emerging in client-side blogging apps. [MarsEdit 1.1](http://ranchero.com/marsedit/?ref=chrismessina.me) similarly added tags late last year and some other niceties. Some things are still pretty unique to each editor... like Qumana's [Adgenta program](http://www.qumana.com/adgenta.htm?ref=chrismessina.me) or the [DropPad](http://www.qumana.com/tour%5F11.htm?ref=chrismessina.me) feature that enables drag and drop blogging from the desktop ([Ecto](http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/?ref=chrismessina.me) has something like this as well). Ecto also features [email integration with the Mac Address Book to notify your friends](http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/docs/pgs/tocNotifications.html?ref=chrismessina.me) of updated posts. But so besides pimping Qumana's release (hey, more choice is a good thing!), I also wanted to point out that we're starting to see at the least the beginnings of some standard features in blogging apps, including a kludge for consistently adding tags to posts. As I use the excellent [Ultimate Tag Warrior](http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/?ref=chrismessina.me) to tag my posts (when composing via the web interface), I'm hoping that tags will soon become something represented in the standard blogging APIs (I know [Matt](http://photomatt.net/?ref=chrismessina.me)'s already done some work on this that we'll be taking advantage of soon). Once that happens, tools like [Flock](http://flock.com/?ref=chrismessina.me), [Performancing](http://performancing.com/firefox?ref=chrismessina.me), Ecto, MarsEdit, Qumana and so on will be able to offer native tag support and not just append that extra data to the body of the posts.