You may not have realized it, but NewsGator 2.0 supports arbitrary RSS extensions. Yep, arbitrary – you can define whatever extension you like, and NewsGator will be able to use it in one way of another. Let’s explore how this works, and what you can do.First, what is a RSS extension? Here’s a trivial example. [...]
Archive for: January, 2004
Arizona Motorsports Park shut down
From the Arizona Republic: The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors ordered the closure of a controversial West Valley racetrack Wednesday…when it opened for business last spring with a Sports Car Club of America racing event, residents immediately began complaining about the noise of revving engines on the 2-mile course just south of Luke Air Force [...]
NewsGator Mobile Edition
Another in a series of posts describing the new NewsGator 2.0 and NewsGator Online Services: Imagine this scenario. You’re at a conference, and your community of bloggers (who are also in attendance) are talking about getting together that night to meet for a drink. You’d love to meet up with them, and put a face to the [...]
NewsGator POP Edition
Continuing in the series of posts describing NewsGator 2.0 and NewsGator Online Services: One of the most common question we get is some variant of: Does NewsGator work with Entourage? Outlook Express? Eudora? Lotus Notes? I love the idea of reading RSS feeds in my email client, but I hate Outlook. Do you have [...]
NewsGator Web Edition
Uh oh, I’m letting down on the job…it’s already Wednesday, and I have a lot more to tell you about. :-) NewsGator Web Edition, part of the NewsGator Online Services suite, is a web-based content aggregator which runs in a web browser. Now there are plenty of other web-based aggregators out there…why do we need [...]
Atom feeds and well-formed XML
Nick and Brent (here and here) have announced that FeedDemon and NetNewsWire will have strict parsing for Atom feeds, meaning non-well-formed feeds will not parse in those products. I totally understand their position, and sympathize with their arguments. However… NewsGator 2.0, and all of the NewsGator editions being shipped as part of NewsGator Online Services on [...]
NewsGator Synchronization
As promised, here is the first in a series of posts describing NewsGator 2.0 and NewsGator Online Services. NewsGator 2.0, and NewsGator Online Services (NGOS) provide synchronization capability for your subscriptions. The basic premise – your subscriptions follow you wherever you go, and you never have to read the same thing twice. There are three [...]
NewsGator announcements
By now you’ve probably see the two major announcements from NewsGator Technologies being made today at CES:NewsGator 2.0NewsGator Online ServicesBoth of these will be publicly available on January 19. Between now and then, I’ll be posting lots of info here about what’s new and different, and why we’re excited about it.Stay tuned – LOTS more [...]
Traveling…
I’m on the way to Las Vegas for CES… More to come! [posted from a mobile device]