As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been using Napster 2.0 (formerly Pressplay) for about 8 months or so. Despite a couple of minor glitches, overall, it’s been a very positive experience. I’m on the $9.95/mo plan. A few observations from continued use: First, I’m at my desk probably 10 hours/day on average, and I’m streaming content [...]
Archive for: December, 2003
PR on the Cheap
Freelance writer Ron Miller wrote an article featuring NewsGator in his latest Home Base column in Network World Fusion, titled PR on the Cheap. From Ron’s weblog: I describe how small companies who can’t afford to hire a PR firm or a clipping service, can use a news aggregator such as NewsGator to help monitor [...]
Aggregators that automatically download web pages
This is a pretty common request for NewsGator: Perhaps I’m missing something but I think that actually having a reader go out and retrieve the referenced news web page along with the summary feed is much more valuable… Reading hundreds of news headlines is less useful when you are travelling, offline, etc. as there is [...]
EContent Top 100 – NewsGator Technologies
NewsGator Technologies has been listed in the EContent Magazine Top 100 list for 2003! From the magazine:“Welcome to the third annual EContent 100 – our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.”So far, this is only in the print magazine, not yet online…I’ll add a link to this post when it [...]
PC Magazine on RSS again
In the December 30, 2003 issue of PC Magazine, they review several blogging tools (congratulations to Six Apart for the Editor’s Choice!), and talk about RSS and popular aggregators, including FeedDemon, SharpReader, and NewsGator. From the article: RSS is even poised to change the business world. [...] According to Greg Reinacker, the founder of NewsGator, programmers [...]
MIME types and feed: again
Joe Gregorio has a good post about MIME types and the feed: scheme: There has been much talk today, and in the far past, of how to automatically handle syndication subscription. The conversation was first brought up and thoroughly discussed by Greg Reinacker. The issue has resurfaced on the [atom-syntax] mailing list. Now there are [...]