Comments on: RSS Ubiquity

By: The RSS Soundbite

The RSS Soundbite — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 00:42:30 +0000

Tim Bray is in sales mode and wants to know What’s the RSS Soundbite? My advice would be to load up NewsGator and pitch RSS as broadcast email….[more]

By: Deane Barker

Deane Barker — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 18:33:09 +0000

I read more news with NewsGator too, but I read it faster so it’s a wash (except for the fact that I ingest more news). With NewsGator, the overhead of getting news and reading it is SO much lower than other methods.

By: Graeme Foster

Graeme Foster — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 15:19:16 +0000

Hmmm… Reminds me of the way Outlook Express integrates newsgroups. The big difference is that you can subscribe to the information you care about!

By: Gwyn Cole

Gwyn Cole — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:37:45 +0000

I blogged my parents response to using NewsGator here: http://www.gwyncole.com/blogs/developer/archives/000059.html. They absolutly love NewsGator!

By: Greg Reinacker

Greg Reinacker — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 17:11:29 +0000

Good thought, Jim…I have added it to the list. Thanks!

By: JimS

JimS — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 16:53:29 +0000

Everything about what you wrote Greg is exactly why I love NewsGator more than a stand alone reader. I’m waiting for the day that literally EVERY information source that I need or want to monitor offers an RSS feed so that I can then just use NewsGator and Outlook to deal with them all. In fact, one more great thing that I started doing the other day was copy postings into Exchange Public Folders. I currently forward posts around to our operations staff, but equally being able to BCC the post to an ‘archive’ folder for future searching is simply priceless.

A new idea just popped into my head too as I was writing this. I find myself, when forwarding/archiving posts, wanting to ‘read-in’/import a particular article from some blog somewhere, but at the same time I don’t really want to subscribe to that person’s blog. What about having some way to do a temp folder and a NG specific address bar that would import the current contents of a feed into that temp folder so that I could then forward that particular post, but not have to subscribe and unsubscribe (and I can deal with having to delete the ‘other’ posts that I don’t care about - it’s all about temporarily getting a feed into Outlook).

By: RSS Ubiquity and NewsGator

RSS Ubiquity and NewsGator — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 01:42:47 +0000

I am a big user of NewsGator. Greg Reinacker has put forward some comments on why he believes bringing all RSS sources into Outlook is a good idea and why I use it. Look beyond what may appear a plug…[more]

By: Michael Fagan

Michael Fagan — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 00:53:38 +0000

I couldn’t possibly agree more.

By: randy

randy — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 23:48:03 +0000

Shameless plug, but I think your analysis is spot on. RSS as a format will likely be applied to all sorts of tools that are used to communicate, and integration of aggregators with standard tools for communicating is key.