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NewsGator buys syndication rival: Huh. Newsgator bought FeedDemon. I think these two are the best client-side (as opposed to Web-based) aggregators on the market right now — NewsGator is near-perfect integration into Outlook, and FeedDemon is IMHO the best standalone RSS client. NewsGator plans to distribute Bradbury’s products, including FeedDemon and TopStyle, to its paid [...]

It struck me last night that there are two models of RSS aggregation: “real-time” and “stored” (yes, I just made those two terms up…). Real-time are aggregators like Mozilla’s Sage extension. This model goes and gets the feed real time and displays it on-demand. In a lot of ways, they’re not even aggregators. They’re just [...]

It’s raining free apps! Picasa is a pretty terrific photo management software. Google just bought the company, and they’re giving Picasa away for free. My father-in-law just got a digital camera for his birthday, so I set him up with Picasa. Now he just plugs in the camera, and up pops picasa. It slurps off [...]

Why Did We Invest in NewsGator?: Here’s a post from a venture capitalist about why he invested in NewsGator. The misperception is that NewsGator is only an Outlook plug-in. While the most popular product from NewsGator is currently their Outlook-based aggregator, what really turned us on when we dug into NewsGator as a potential investment [...]

Essentials : Mark Pilgrim has listed his “essential” software tools for doing his job. I always like to see these — the absolute, “can’t live without” tools of people who do the same work as me. As the risk of being self-indulgent, here’s mine: Email: Thunderbird or Mozilla Mail via IMAP. I starting using IMAP [...]

While I was hanging out at the hospital waiting for the new addition, I got to wondering if RSS has to be “pull” by definition. Could you “push” updates from a site to a client? Say you have a notification client — a little app that sits on your desktop. You log into it, and [...]

NewsGator Media Center Edition: Greg is such a bad a**. I’m jealous. Yep, that’s a video stream from a RSS enclosure playing in the lower left corner. One more click of the remote, and it’s full screen. (And yes, it’s from Microsoft’s Channel 9 video feed) The screencaps look great.

RSS extensions: The inventor of NewsGator shows us some of the really cool things you can do with it. …you can define whatever extension you like, and NewsGator will be able to use it in one way of another. Let’s explore how this works, and what you can do…you can take any extension data and [...]

Press Release – NewsGator Online Services…: I was one of the beta testers for Newsgator 2.0. I can finally vouch that it’s a stunning piece of work, since I’ve been under an NDA for the last two months. In addition to launching NewsGator 2.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, [...]

Aggregators that automatically download web pages: Some people have made the request that NewsGator download the “target” page of a blog posting so disconnected users can have the content too. Greg has a good discussion of the implications. So we’re caught between doing what the publisher wants (driving a click-through), or doing what the user [...]