There have been a couple of posts (here and here) talking about alleged security vulnerabilities in NewsGator and other news aggregators. The first post supposedly describes a way to have a news post contain an Outlook “virus” that will send an email to people in your address book; the second shows a RSS file containing [...]
Archive for: February, 2003
NewsGator pre-release builds expire today
Just a reminder…if you’re using a pre-release 0.x build of NewsGator (or even the old olnews.exe), today is the last day those builds will function. I encourage you to install version 1.0 and give it a try!If you’re using version 0.7 or later, the NewsGator 1.0 installer will upgrade your installation, and your subscriptions will [...]
NewsGator News and Updates
If you have upgraded to NewsGator 1.0 from a previous version, then you probably aren’t subscribed to the NewsGator News and Updates feed (new users get this subscription by default). If you’re interested in the latest news about NewsGator, I recommend you subscribe!NewsGator users, right-click here with IE to automatically subscribe. Not using IE? Go [...]
RSS and short descriptions
ScottW says:I am going to release an optional “short-description” feature tonight that I hope everyone will use for posts longer than a sentence or two. (instead of the full post text appearing in the feed, only the short-description will appear)While I understand Scott’s motivation (he needs traffic on his site to support revenue generation), I [...]
NewsGator 1.0 feedback
Some good comments on NewsGator 1.0′s first day in the wild:Joe Friend: “The best aggregator for Windows has shipped.”Don Park: “NewsGator 1.0 is released…Integration is really smooth without apparent seams.”Sean Varley: “It’s revolutionized the way I look at staying on top of my news, and I wouldn’t want to do it any other way now.”Brian [...]
NewsGator 1.0 Released!
I’m very pleased to announce the release of NewsGator 1.0! At the same time comes the public debut of NewsGator’s new home, http://www.newsgator.com. There you’ll find lots of information about NewsGator, news, downloads, a RSS feed search system, support resources (including a knowledge base and discussion forums), and of course the NewsGator store.This has been [...]
NewsGator release candidate
If you are interested in testing a NewsGator release candidate, please let me know. This will be a very limited release, and we will only be taking a limited number of requests.When you respond, please include the following information:Operating System and SP .NET version and SP Outlook version Are you currently using NewsGator? Number of [...]
NewsGator v0.9
NewsGator v0.9 is now available on the download site. A couple of items that have gotten a lot of attention lately have been changed – NewsGator no longer sends a referrer header, and it now correctly installs and operates for non-admin users. Other changes:Posts now marked as read after reading from NewsPage NewsGator can now [...]
Top 100!
Wow, hard to believe…but today, my weblog has hit the right side of the top 100 list. Woo-hoo! I thought a celebratory post was in order. :-)