Regator 2.0

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us via our blog…but we’ve got a great excuse: We’ve been working, at times literally, around the clock building a better, easier, more intuitive Regator. (Or harder, better, faster, stronger if you’re Daft Punk. And if you’re Daft Punk and you’re reading this blog, leave a comment because you’d make my decade.)

Right now, the redesigned Regator is in private beta at http://preview.regator.com, which means you need an invite code to get in. Fortunately, Mashable, The Next Web, Louis Gray, Download Squad, local blog inDecatur, Crenk, and SheGeeks can hook you up and all had lovely things to say about our pride and joy.

If you’ve been using Regator for a while, thanks; you and your interactions with the current site taught us a lot over the last couple of years about what people want, how they use sites like ours, and how we could improve. The first thing you’ll notice about the new Regator is a cleaner, simpler, more intuitive interface. That was our main goal. Along with that, we’ve added a few other extra touches that we hope you’ll love:

Grouped trends lists – Instead of simply showing you a list of the twenty most-blogged-about stories, Regator’s new trends list groups terms related to the same story.

Improved search – Doing a search now shows which topics and blogs are covering your search term most and allows you to easily filter by date, topic, and blog.

Facebook Connect – You’ll be able to use Facebook Connect to log in (This feature and Delicious integration are not available in the Regator Premium iPhone app until after the private beta period).

Delicious integration – In addition to sharing posts via Twitter, Facebook, and email, you can now easily bookmark posts in Delicious.

Setup Wizard – It’s called the Wizard because it’s pretty magical. Simply entering in four interests will generate a list of topics that you might be interested in adding to your favorites. From there, Regator recommends great blogs to follow as well as keywords to monitor.

Blog Monitor – The Blog Monitor has always been an easy way to keep up with your specific interests (musicians, brands, authors, etc.). Now you can get RSS feeds for individual keywords to get posts about your favorite things delivered to your favorite feed reader.

Improved Blog Profiles – Bloggers, we’ve got new fanciness for you: Profiles now feature a graph of recent posting activity (number of posts per day), related blogs, an easy-to-scan archive, and blogger achievement ribbons.

Trend graphing – In the new Trends tab, you can view and compare graphs showing the blog coverage that any term has received. Stories that cause major spikes on the graph are also displayed. 

If you’re an existing Regator user (or even if you’re not), we’d absolutely love to hear your feedback on the new and improved Regator. We’ve worked really hard on it for months and sincerely hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do. If you’ve read this far and found that the blogs above are out of invite codes, try using: regatorblog It’ll get you in if you’re one of the first few folks to use it. Otherwise, we’ll be opening it up to the public before long. Thanks for your ongoing support. We really do love our users.