Pito Salas’ labor of love — the free, open source, multi-platform BlogBridge aggregator — takes a big step forward with its new release. Download the weekly build (2.4) to get the latest. [Disclosure: I’m on the board of advisors. But I wouldn’t lie to you.]

The new release has three features I like: First, you can hide the star ratings if you don’t use them. Second, it shows a small histogram of posts for each feed you’ve subscribed to. Third, and best of all, it now makes it easy to browse a list of headlines and expose the entire post with a click.

That’s in addition to BlogBridge’s existing points of pride, including keyword search, integration with del.icio.us tags, and query/parameter-based feeds.

Plus, if you knew Pito you’d really like him. BlogBridge comes straight from his big heart. [Tags: BlogBridge PitoSalas rss aggregators blogging]

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