Open Social Developers Journal - Show Me the Money. Sometimes it’s nice to be old. Well, it’s at least nice to be able to remember mistakes so that we can hopefully avoid repeating them. Back in the “Web 1.0” days, there was a period of euphoria where everything related...

Merry Christmas. From all of us at NewsGator, MERRY CHRISTMAS! We hope that you and your families enjoy a peaceful and happy holiday.

2008 : The Year of RSS. Marshall Kirkpatrick penned a good post just before Christmas on 2007 highlighting the year in RSS, which made me consider the year ahead in terms of both consumer and enterprise RSS adoption. I polled some of our leading thinkers on...

NewsGator Makes Client Apps Free. NewsGator announced today the general availability of NetNewsWire 3.1, FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. The public beta of NewsGator Inbox 3.0 also began today. The award-winning products for PC (FeedDemon), Mac (NetNewsWire), Microsoft Outlook (Inbox), and...

Why Use a Desktop Feed Reader. I was going to write a quick post about why web-based readers don't work very well within the enterprise, then I noticed that Nick already wrote that. Most web-based readers (NewsGator's being an exception) can't subscribe to secure feeds. I...

If SuperPoke is the crack cocaine of Facebook, then perhaps Widgets are a mild narcotic. There’s been a lot of talk of late about “viral loops” (see Jeff Nolan or Andrew Chen), how they define the development of social applications and how they are the secret sauce of social networks. Without going into significant detail...

comScore widget matrix numbers are innacurate. Techcrunch recently published a post about “The Widget Kings” which promoted the comScore widget matrix as a symbol of rank among widget manufacturers. We did a little research on the accuracy of these numbers – to make a long story...

Attention Data: Content vs. User. Much has been made about our recent move to make our RSS client applications free to users. To recap, last month we removed all license fees for our client applications (NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, Go mobile apps, our online reader, and Outlook...

Activity Scoring in NewsGator Online. The Great from the Many In January, when we made all of our client readers available for free, we said we were collecting usage data to make the experience better for all users. Today, we released a feature based on...

NewsGator's 2.5 Billion RSS Articles. Microsoft published a case study about our use of SQL Server 2008. It's a pretty good summary of our how much "stuff" we have to manage. NewsGator makes life easier for individuals and companies by aggregating Really Simple Syndication (RSS)...