We’ve published our first NewsGator case study – take a look! There’s lots of info about how Triple Point is using RSS, weblogs, and NewsGator within their company. An excerpt: Using NewsGator and other tools, Triple Point Technology has transformed the way they share information within the enterprise. From critical build and release notifications, to [...]
Archive for: June, 2003
NewsGator 1.3 beta
Well, it’s about that time again. We need some “brave” folks to step up and start working with the latest NewsGator 1.3 build. Here’s a partial list of changes: Added plain-text publishing capability Tighened Outlook folder integration Improved performance and stability Output HTML is now optionally cleaned and converted to xhtml Added ability to retrieve [...]
RSS and SourceSafe
Hot out of the RAI lab…RSS feeds generated from Visual SourceSafe. Many development shops use some kind of email notification for source changes – and this is a perfect application of RSS. Here’s a screen shot in NewsGator with Outlook 2003:This currently runs as a Windows service, and periodically generates the RSS file(s). To get [...]
Syndication Format Roadmap
Sam Ruby’s wiki is documenting an effort to define a syndication format, designed to overcome some of the existing issues with RSS (which I won’t get into here!). There is quite a bit of popular support so far for this effort, which is nice to see. If you’re at all interested in RSS and syndication, I [...]
SCO and Unix
I haven’t followed this whole thing all that closely, but I thought this was interesting: …open-source folks aren’t tackling the one key question in the SCO Group-IBM hoo-ha over Unix: What if the company’s right? [CNET News.com]
Stability
It has come to my attention that a few folks I haven’t heard from are having stability problems with NewsGator. If you are seeing any problems like this at all, please contact me.
Well Formed Log Entries
Sam Ruby has started a wiki to discuss what really makes up a weblog entry. He started it out with the following: Authentic Voice of a Person. Reverse Chronological Order. On the web. These are essential characteristics of a online Journal or weblog. I think we should expand the scope of this just a bit, [...]
Here’s a good idea
A great example of using the scripting capabilities of Outlook, combined with NewsGator (excerpted): I went ahead and implemented my idea for having Outlook automatically convert keywords in my posts into hyperlinks. Man, this is great… now I love using NewsGator even more! [Robert Levy] Cool idea, Robert!
Steve Gillmor on RSS
Well he doesn’t mention it by name, but it sounds like Steve Gillmor likes NewsGator: Why do the most innovative RSS readers work as plugins to Outlook? Dave Winer doesn’t seem to agree – heh. Go figure.
Server outage
Our SQL server was offline today for about 6 hours (ouch), which affected this weblog, and portions of newsgator.com. It should be fine now, however…so if you were going to leave a comment about advertising in RSS but couldn’t, please try again!