For the most part, I’m in this business to pay the bills. Not that I don’t love it — I do – but as I have said before, there are other things I’d love to do too, like spend more time racing cars. But every now and then, you hear something very cool: The faster we can [...]
Archive for: February, 2004
PC Magazine reviews NewsGator 2.0 and NGOS
A great review of NewsGator 2.0 and NewsGator Online Services in PC Magazine. I can’t decide what to quote from it, so I’ll just leave it to you to click through and read it. :-)
Calendar extension for NewsGator
Wow, I just get done talking about some cool extensions for NewsGator 2.0, and another one pops up. John Bristowe and Jeff Julian have built an ESF extension for NewsGator. With this extension installed, if a feed publishes information about an event in a certain way, a new item will get added to Outlook’s calendar [...]
NewsGator extensions
A couple of very cool new NewsGator extensions worth mentioning: NNTP Posting plug-in: Matt Hawley has built a plug-in/extension combination to allow posting to NNTP newsgroups directly from NewsGator and Outlook. Very nice! FetchLinks: Graeme Foster has built a plug-in which will retrieve the linked content from a web site, for feeds that only provide links [...]
Spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
Mark Fletcher of Bloglines has been writing some interesting things lately. First, in a response to Jim Louderback’s recent article (discussed here), Mark writes:“I agree with your article on eWeek about Newsgator creating a walled garden.”I already pointed out how we’re not creating any kind of walled garden, and Jim Louderback agreed with that after [...]
Going to DEMO
I will be at the DEMO conference next week, participating in a panel about blogging and syndication. Also participating will be Mena Trott of Six Apart, Buzz Bruggeman of ActiveWords, and Robert Scoble of Microsoft. John Patrick, who will be moderating the panel, wrote a preview of the panel here. If you’re going to be [...]
Jim Louderback on NewsGator Online Services
A few days ago, Brian Livingston wrote an article for eWeek talking about NewsGator 2.0 and NewsGator Online Services (NGOS). Today, Jim Louderback wrote a response for eWeek, which I’d like to publicly respond to. The first few paragraphs describe RSS…and then: But there are a few problems with the service…the NewsGator service requires that [...]
Bloggers and News
Does anyone have any good examples of recent major news events that have been broken by bloggers before the news media picked up the stories?
NewsGator in the News
A few recent articles of note about NewsGator and NewsGator Online Services: Software keeps track of Weblog, news-site updates – Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News RSS is the New News – Rafe Needleman, AlwaysOn IDG’s InfoWorld Supports NewsGator’s RSS Subscription Synchronization System with Targeted Content – IDG press release