If any of you are going to be in Phoenix, AZ Wednesday for the Vista/Office launch event, be sure to go to the “Better Together” event at 11:00am.  I will be there with Lane Mohler (our enterprise product architect), and we’ll be doing some demos in the session. Among the things we’re showing are:- NewsGator [...]

Yikes…I got tagged with the meme – gosh, thanks Nick. ;-) Not one to spoil the party, here are my five things:1. I live in Colorado, but I haven’t been on snow skis in probably 10 years. This is one of those “oh, you live in Colorado! Do you ski?” questions that’s for some reason [...]

This morning at the Office 2.0 Conference, I think I saw demos of at least four or five online web-based word processors and spreadsheets.  Eek. I don’t think Office 2.0 is about displacing Microsoft Office on the desktop.  Let’s face it, folks – as much as we love to complain about it, Office is about [...]

As some of you may know, I’m moderating a panel at the Syndicate conference next week.  Here are the session details: A Look at the Horizon: A VC’s Perspective on Syndication 05/16/2006, 3:45 PM – 4:40 PM Moderator: Greg Reinacker, Founder & CTO, NewsGator Technologies, Inc. Speakers: Seth J. Levine, Principal, Mobius Venture Capital. Richard [...]

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!

Last time I wrote about this (seems like yesterday, but it’s actually been a while!) I talked a bit about security for RSS feeds, and in particular authentication, authorization, and encryption. At the end of that post, I promised to follow it with another post talking about how an online aggregator should be dealing with this [...]

I’ll be at the PDC conference for most of this week, along with two of our system architects…if you’re there, and you’d like to meet up and chat, send me a note.  I’ll also be on a panel, “The Future of RSS“, on Friday morning – be sure to stop by!

I was on a call the other day with some folks in the industry, and someone made a comment to the effect of “we really need to come up with some kind of solution for securing RSS feeds – then we can really do some cool stuff.” Before I could get on my soapbox, someone else [...]

A few months ago, this blog was crawling with comment spam. Yikes. Spammers – 1.  Greg – 0. So around that time, I implemented a CAPTCHA validator here on my blog, so to leave a comment you’d have to actually read the funny letters, and type them in. All was well for a while…this actually eliminated [...]

As Steve says, BusinessWeek is looking for votes for the Best of the Web awards.  Be sure to go vote! BusinessWeek Nominates Blogs, Podcasts for Best of the Web BusinessWeek magazine has opened its Best of the Web Awards for reader voting. There are ample nominees to choose from, including several of my faves … [...]