Cool! SharePointGator I’d been working on this webpart ages ago to enter into the NewsGator API competition but didn’t end up getting it finished in time to submit it. Left it sitting in the projects folder for a couple of months until I decided to finish it this weekend as I was feeling a little [...]
Archive for: February, 2006
FeedDemon 2.0 beta 2
What do you get when you put a client guy (Nick Bradbury) and an API guy (Gordon Weakliem) in a room together for an hour? Insanely fast content retrieval/sync. Last night I was playing with the new public FeedDemon 2.0 beta 2 release. I downloaded my content, read through it, and a while later did [...]
NewsGator’s ping endpoint
For those who are wondering how to ping NewsGator’s system when a feed is updated…the ping endpoint is http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx It implements the standard XML-RPC ping protocols. This has been up for ages, and is used by ping-o-matic, pingoat, feedburner, and others…but I don’t believe it’s actually documented on the site anywhere. So, rather than my [...]
San Francisco Chronicle launches My Feeds, powered by NewsGator
The San Francisco Chronicle is the first customer to go live with NewsGator’s private label hosted solution…you can see it live at http://www.sfgate.com/myfeeds/. It’s a complete RSS experience, integrated into their existing web site, with content chosen by their editors that they feel will appeal to their users.Users can of course subscribe to any content [...]
See you at DEMO!
That’s right…NewsGator is launching a new product at DEMO 2006. Be sure to come see us…I’ll be on stage with Walker Fenton at 10:47am Wednesday Feb 8, and we’ll of course have some folks in the Pavilion throughout the conference. See you there!
Color calibration – not for the night owl
Colors. Who knew they could be so tricky. One night, a week or so ago, I was making a print of this photo on my photo printer, a Canon iP6600D: Simple enough, you’d think. I even was using Canon’s specific ICC profiles, based on these instructions for Photoshop, for my specific printer and paper combination. The colors [...]