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
6:49:32 PM
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