Category Archives: newsgator

NewsGator Ships a NewsMonster-style Distributed Reputation System. 0

Looks like NewsGator might have just shipped a NewsMonster-style distributed reputation system. From NewsGator’s announcement: “It’s all about ubiquity,” said Greg Reinacker, NewsGator CTO and founder. “We have more than 100 Fortune 2000 companies using NewsGator Enterprise Server and our client products. In selling to these enterprises, we discovered that thousands of knowledge workers were [...]

TalkCrunch on the Online RSS Aggregator War 0

TalkCrunch has a great interview with all the big players in the online RSS aggregator war. Generally a good podcast but at 50 minutes its kind of a lot for one sitting.

Newsgator Goes REST! 0

Newsgator finally released their API in REST flavor. It was formally SOAP and really a pain to use.

Attention Podcast with Nick Bradbury and Alex Barnett 0

Last week I was lucky enough to take part in a podcast talking discussing RSS attention with Nick Bradbury and Alex Barnett:I asked two of the RSS industry’s leading lights to join me for a call and share their perspective on the question of where Attention is going with respect to RSS feedreaders and aggregators: Nick Bradburycreator FeedDemon, part of Newsgator (Nick also developed Homesite (sold to Macromedia) and Topstyle) and Kevin Burton of Tailrank (also co-founder Rojo).

Who Won the NewsGator API Contest? 1

NewsGator had a really cool API contest for people to run with their API and build cool tools. The site says the winners would be announced on December 5 but neither the API contest site nor Greg’s blog have been updated.What happened?

NewsGator Buys NetNewsWire 1

Brent Simmons, the creator of NetNewsWire, will be joining the NewsGator team as a product architect.The NewsGator Online platform provides a highly integrated and synchronized reading/viewing experience across multiple devices, including the web, mobile phones, televisions, and e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook. The recent FeedDemon acquisition extended this to the Windows desktop, and now with NetNewsWire, the premier RSS reader for Mac OS X, the platform extends to the Mac desktop as well.I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

NewsGator API Contest 0

Looks like NewsGator is having an API ContestSeems you can win a laptop or various other prizes if you’re lucky enough to win…. I’m working on a new app (web-based) which I think will be killer and might just win.

NewsGator Online API 0

NewsGator just release their Online API:It’s been a while in coming…but the NewsGator Online API – the next major piece of the NewsGator platform roadmap – is now online and ready to use…. So if someone is using NewsGator Outlook edition at work, FeedDemon 1.6 or NewsGator Online at home, and you write a cool mobile application (for example), they’ll be able to read the same content and sync with your new application.Looks like you can synchronized read/unread state which means the attention concept should be easy to implement with NewsGator.

NewsGator Launches Enterprise Server 0

Looks like NewsGaNewsGator – About Us:There are hundreds of thousands of information workers worldwide tracking mission critical information with RSS readers and aggregators today…. It’s a server-based application that sits behind your firewall, and allows employees to constantly monitor changing information using the same tools they use every day – Microsoft Outlook, their Mobile Phones and the Web.