Some folks at Microsoft have posted a story about NewsGator on the Microsoft Startup Zone – Where Are They Now – NewsGator Revisited: “Social software and Enterprise 2.0 are hot topics right now, and RSS plays a fundamental role in Enterprise 2.0…” Now, in fairness, that’s my own quote – but that doesn’t make it [...]

As you might have already read this morning (depending on whether my post makes it out first!), NewsGator has closed a $12M financing round, bringing our total capital raised to $30M. As the founder, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what we’ve accomplished, since that fateful day when I signed [...]

As you may have heard by now, we’re in beta with a product called NewsGator Social Sites that integrates NewsGator Enterprise Server very closely with Microsoft SharePoint. I’m going to blog about this quite a bit more in my upcoming product roadmap posts, but suffice it to say that the combination of these products makes [...]

Richard MacManus wrote an article on his blog called “Desktop RSS Readers Are (Nearly) Dead“, and went on to show some survey results and discuss some Feedburner data. But as the company who builds and sells the most popular desktop RSS clients in the world, I feel compelled to point out some flaws in his [...]

It’s almost time for another NewsGator Platform Roadmap post (a couple more weeks), and I haven’t posted for a while so I have a lot of pent-up blog frustration. :-) Before I do the roadmap post, I’m going to make a series of posts describing how we are looking at the industry, our products, and [...]

Way back in January, Rok Hrastnik over at The RSS Diary interviewed me for a book he was writing about RSS. I think we ended up chatting far longer than he expected :-), but in any case, he’s published the interview as a podcast in 3 parts.Part 1 – How are Vista and IE changing [...]

For an interesting glimse of life at NewsGator, be sure to check out the new video “Get down with your feeds!”…maybe we should expand into the music industry? ;-) Get down with your feeds

Whew! It’s been a long time in coming…but the new beta for NewsGator Online is now online and ready to try. We’ve been slowly trickling it out over the last couple of weeks, and a handful of people have been playing with it, with the feedback being universally positive.But what is it? And why?It’s an [...]

Feedburner recently published some “engagement” statistics about web-based RSS readers (including, for the first time, Google Reader), which basically show Google Reader having a huge market share, along with My Yahoo! and Bloglines. I wasn’t going to comment on this, but after reading some recent articles (including this one at TechCrunch, which had incorrect information [...]

I’m totally excited to tell you all that NewsGator has sold MarsEdit to Red Sweater Software. Daniel at red Sweater is a great guy, really enthusiastic about the product and its users, and is going to do an awesome job with it!This all came about a while ago. We’ve got a LOT of products (if [...]