Another NewsGator review, this one from eWeek. A small excerpt: NewsGator is a must-have for news junkies who use news sites with Rich Site Summary content, such as Slashdot.org.
Archive for: August, 2003
ExtremeTech Aggregator Review
This has been mentioned lots of places already, but in case you missed it – ExtremeTech reviews six news aggregators, including NewsGator. A quote: NewsGator provides an important convenience – operating inside outlook, it doesn’t require a separate application to view news feeds Since we use Outlook for email when using Windows, we found it [...]
AtomAPI and Authentication
Joe Gregorio and Mark Pilgrim have been working on a new implementation of the Atom API, and have come up with a Digest-like authentication mechanism for it. Joe describes it here; here’s a small part of the post: Triggered an auth by rejecting a request with an HTTP status code of 401. The server response [...]
Embedded code
From Sean Varley’s weblog: Apparently the University of Wisconsin and Netgear have a problem. It looks like Netgear hard coded the SNTP IP address into some embedded devices for network time sync and now the school gets the pleasure of servicing a few hundred thousand requests per second. You can read about it here. Wow…seems to [...]
Acknowledgements
I’ve been meaning to mention a couple of folks here for a while now. First, I’d like to thank Didier from nundroo, who designed our new logo and is working on some upcoming ad graphics. Great job, Didier! And second, thanks for the folks at Hunny Software, whose excellent MIME.NET package was instrumental in getting [...]
NewsGator tips feed
If you were previously a NewsGator user before 1.3, it’s likely you’ve never seen the new NewsGator Tips feed. If you’d like to subscribe, go to the Subscriptions dialog, click the Add button, and select the Feed Wizard. Choose RSS and continue, select “NewsGator.com Feeds” from the list and click Next, and then choose the [...]
Marketing by RSS
Dwight talks about RSS for marketing, and mentions a couple of things he sees as problems: I love RSS as much as anyone else, but we don’t do anyone any favors when we refuse to take off the rose-colored sunglasses. Chris Pirillo throws some brickbats at an RSS doubter, but I happen to agree with [...]
21-6 Productions
Back in another life, at Galileo, I worked with a guy named Justin Mette, probably one of the smartest developers I’ve had the pleasure to work with. Well, a while back Justin left Galileo and formed a independent gaming studio called 21-6 Productions…and they’ve been doing some amazing stuff. At lunch a couple of weeks [...]
Formatting and Styles in NewsGator
This is the first of a few posts to come about cool NewsGator features that aren’t obvious… Did you know you can change the formatting of posts within NewsGator? A common request is to be able to change the default font used to render items. The font used is actually Internet Explorer’s default font, and [...]
RSS and Authentication
I see the following kind of thing a lot, talking about authentication with RSS feeds: [...] Right now, RSS is all anonymous and doesn’t care who you are. Does ATOM/ECHO/PIE have it in its specs for any sort of authentication, so a person could get customized content? Maybe an employee vs. a customer could get [...]