Today was a pretty interesting day. We announced three new partnerships with FeedDemon, Moreover, and Six Apart. You’ll start seeing the fruits of the latter two over the next couple of weeks…for the FeedDemon one, I’d like to chat about it here. We’ve offered synchronization in our online system (NewsGator Online Services) for 9 months [...]

As you might have noticed by now, we have hired J.B. Holston as CEO of NewsGator Technologies.  I’ve gotten quite a bit of email about this - some of it along the lines of “so the VC’s brought in a CEO, huh?” It’s not like that at all. When I first started working with Brad Feld at [...]

So the response to my What’s in a name post was great…all of the comments, both public and private, were very helpful. Thanks! The general consensus was that we should probably change the name, and we should probably do it sooner rather than later. We haven’t decided absolutely to change the name, but we’re enthusiastic [...]

In the beginning, there was the Outlook News Aggregator. Not a very imaginative name, but the start to something that would become much more than an Outlook add-in. About a week later, the name NewsGator was born. I still remember that day…having lunch with a friend, brainstorming about names, and seeing which domains were immediately [...]