If you haven’t yet, you should take a look at Do More Faster, a book by Brad Feld and David Cohen about the experiences of early-stage investors and entrepreneurs. I’ve even got a chapter in there myself, called “Don’t Plan, Prototype!” It’s essentially a couple of pages talking about the very early stages of NewsGator, [...]
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Changes afoot
Over 7 years ago, I wrote a blog post that changed my life. It was just a screenshot of some prototype code, and a short 15 words. But it inspired the creation of NewsGator; about six weeks later, I released NewsGator 1.0 and the journey had begun in earnest. Now, 7 years later, NewsGator is [...]
FeedDemon, NewsGator, and Mr. Bradbury
Way back in 2005, NewsGator acquired FeedDemon. I vividly remember sitting down with Nick Bradbury and talking about our shared vision for the future of FeedDemon and the NewsGator platform…and many a night drinking a lot of beer and talking about RSS and what we now call social computing. Through it all, Nick remained laser-focused on both the future [...]
Enterprise RSS – the State of the Industry
There has been much talk over the last few days about Enterprise RSS, and whether it’s dead, still being born, or alive and well. Since I’ve got a pretty unique view into this particular industry, I thought I’d write some thoughts and try to give you a more clear picture of what’s really happening. First, [...]
Enterprise RSS and security
Peter Verhoeven wrote an article a few days ago talking about security features he feels are missing from Enterprise RSS tools, including NewsGator Enterprise Server. I wanted to address his concerns directly, explaining exactly why NGES handles secure feeds the way it does, and talk about how specifically one could address the issue he brings [...]
TopStyle acquired
I’m pleased to announce that Stefan van As has acquired TopStyle, and is already planning a major release for Q1 2009. As many of you know, NewsGator had TopStyle as a result of the acquisition of Bradbury Software a few years back. Since then, its development has been somewhat slow; the company’s focus was on [...]
NewsGator Related Content
As you may have read by now, NewsGator has released the Related Content services as part of the media-targeted offerings. This is available either using a widget, or also available via API for data services customers. The widget (or API) will serve up content that is related to the content the user is reading; that [...]
NetNewsWire for iPhone usage
Josh Larson on NewsGator’s Media and Consumer team has a blog post up with some usage stats for NetNewsWire for iPhone in its first 9 weeks or so since release. Go take a look…over 200,000 users, and over 115,000 new-to-NewsGator users have signed up in the last 30 days. We have some other data as [...]
NewsGator’s sync platform details
For the vast majority of NewsGator users (including folks using NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, or any of our other applications), NewsGator’s sync system works totally transparently. But there are some nuances of our implementation that are sometimes visible to users. So, in the hopes of giving people a definitive place to go to understand this, I offer [...]
NGES in 60 seconds – group clippings
Last time, we looked at how clippings work in NewsGator Enterprise Server. At the end of the video, I mentioned that there are other ways to share clippings with other folks…I was referring to a feature called group clippings. Group clippings are basically clippings that are shared among all the members of a group. That [...]