Greg Reinacker’s Weblog

You know RSS is getting much more mainstream when it’s covered on TV.  There was a two-and-a-half minute segment on CNBC about a week ago, including interviews from myself (from NewsGator) and also Scott Gatz from Yahoo. Watch it here!

A couple of quick things to mention.

First, we’re now publishing our subscriber statistics in our user-agent. That means when NewsGator Online retrieves a feed, it sends information to the publisher about how many subscribers there are to that particular feed. There have been quite a few folks publishing their readership statistics recently, and we’re trying to help out where we can.

And second, NewsGator and DivX announced at CES that NewsGator would be providing content to their supported consumer electronics devices through their DivX Connected program. This is a really cool development. We’ve had NewsGator Media Center edition for quite some time now, and it’s an awesome user experience for users with Windows XP Media Center edition or Snapstream Beyond Media. This DivX announcement takes that experience further, so you’ll be able to buy a DVD player that can display and interact with content from NewsGator.

Wow, it’s been a while. So much has been going on, and I’m going to try to catch you all up here in the coming week or so.

One thing I’d like to mention here…we at NewsGator have decided to donate 3% of our Q1 revenue to the American Red Cross for the Tsunami relief efforts. Our hearts go out to all involved during these difficult times, and I hope we can make a difference.