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July 20th, 2008

AideRSS’ Thematic Post Rank added to NewsGator

NewsGator has added a new feature to its rss arsenal. Thanks to its partnership with AideRSS it now has Thematic Post Rank in its services [Source]. But what exactly does this mean?
This means that NewsGator can now offer a more focused and personalized (Customizavle) RSS reading. In other words it can enhance the punters RSS […]

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July 11th, 2008

NetNewsWire now available for IPhone and IPods

NewsGator has released a free application for the IPhone and IPod. The application is based on the popular and critically-acclaimed Mac RSS feed reader NetNewsWire. And iPhone NetNewsWire can sync with several suite of RSS readers from NewsGator - including NewsGator Online, FeedDemon, NetNewsWire for Macintosh, and Inbox.
According to the press […]

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July 5th, 2008

NewsGator’s Editors Desk 2.1

A few days before NewsGator inked a partnership with the Japanese company DAC. It, NewsGator released its latest version of its widget platform, Editor’s Desk 2.1 [Source].
Features improved include:
1. A redesigned user interface.
2. It has New templates.
3. A more simpler and streamlined procedures for creating widgets.
NewsGators widget allows businesses - in particular brand and […]

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June 28th, 2008

Newsgator and Dac sign deal to use widgets

Newsgator just inked a deal with Digital Advertising Consortium (DAC) that gives exclusive rights to DAC to NewsGator Widget Services to Japanese media companies and brands. This will allow DAC to market NewsGator Widgets for content syndication. [Source.]
What does NewsGator Widget Services do?
And why is there interest in it?
NewsGator Widget Services creates widgets that […]

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May 24th, 2008

NewsGator, SenseArray and APML

Remember Attention Profiling Mark-up Language or APML in the previous post? I this it? , NewsGator Technologies, Inc. said that it included the filtering capabilities of Uprizer Labs’ SenseArray collaborative filtering into its RSS readers [Source]
According to Uprizer Labs CEO Ian Clarke, SenseArray recommends stories or articles or posts based on […]

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May 22nd, 2008

APML made easy by NewsGator

Attention Profiling Mark-up Language or APML is an XML-based format used for capturing the likes and dislikes of person. It is said to be a more accurate way of sharing one’s attention profile. And NewsGator is now making it easier to share one’s APML to other applications [Source]. This makes things less cumbersome.
The purpose of […]

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October 23rd, 2006

CNET Reviews RSS Readers

CNet has reviewed some of the most populair RSS readers: Bloglines, Rojo, Google Reader, FeedDemon and Newsgator Inbox 2.6 for Outlook. Like Steve writes, the most useful part of the review is a matrix that compares each on their blogging, mobile and language capabilities. Overall winner is Newsgator’s FeedDemon, Bloglines ends second.
Tags: bloglines, feeddemon, feedreader, […]

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June 14th, 2006

DVR / PVR’s and RSS

Alldvrnews.com writes about the coming demand for DVRs with RSS capabilities, which allows DVR users to subscribe to their favorite podcasts and vodcasts. At the same time I found this article on AdAge about Moqvo, which should be the new TiVo of the internet. Moqvo’s co-founder, Mr. Detwiler, calls the site a “social media center” […]

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March 31st, 2006

Review of Webbased FeedReaders

TechCrunch (uhh, i mean Frank Gruber) examined nine web-based feed readers (Attensa Online, Bloglines, FeedLounge, Google Reader, Gritwire, News Alloy, NewsGator Online, Pluck Web Edition, Rojo).
Not much of a shock here, Google Reader and FeedLounge are the fastest in performace. Bloglines and Rojo are the best choice for a feature rich application. Except none seem […]

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March 28th, 2006

Newsgator coming through

NewsGator has been very busy! Lately they’ve been working with Vista and checking out the mobile market. Now they are releasing NewsGator Inbox 2.6 (formerly NewsGator Outlook Edition) and FeedDemon 2.0, finally;) The release marks the first major update of the product since NewsGator’s acquisition of FeedDemon developer Bradbury Software in May of 2005. The […]

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