NewsGator Considered the Best Online RSS Reader
Picking the Best Online RSS Reader
Picking the Best Online RSS Reader
July 12, 2005
By Brian Livingston
NewsGator Online, offers several features that other online RSS readers can't currently match:
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Job bulletins. In partnership with the employment service Work.com,
NewsGator Online allows users to subscribe to help-wanted listings
within any given radius of their chosen city. Reinacker cites this as
an example of many up-to-the-minute services NewsGator is planning.
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Integration with Media Center Edition. People who own a PC with
Microsoft's Media Center Edition can get multimedia feeds, including
video. The service is accessible to MCE users by clicking Online
Spotlight, News and Sports, NewsGator MCE.
• Podcasts that come
to you. Perhaps the most compelling new feature of NewsGator Online is
its support for “podcatching.” This buzzword means automatically
downloading audio and video programs that are posted on the Web. If you
have NewsGator free FeedStation application (now in beta) running on a
home PC connected to an iPod, you can do amazing things, Reinacker
says. “If you're at work, and you see a podcast you want, you click to
download it to your iPod at home. This also works with Windows Media
Player. FeedStation actually downloads the stuff and puts it in your
playlist at home.”
…For everyone who needs the ability to read a
set of RSS feeds on different machines in different settings, NewsGator
beats the competition. NewsGator early support for podcasting, and its
wide product range, which scales from a single user all the way up to
the needs of a multinational enterprise, gives you the widest set of
options to choose from.
July 13th, 2005 at 6:14 am
It appears that Newsgator is positioning itself to be a multi-media news aggregator. It is not clear that it will have the kind of sharing and participatory aggregation that we anticipate for Bedrock.
July 16th, 2005 at 2:13 am
Why you put yourself into this unpredicatable pain.
Feeddemon already died as a stand alone news reader. Cause it's gonna be newsgator paid service's add-on. Newsgator is not a software company. They sell the service. Ridiculously the service is about that you need to pay to see your feeds even when feeds is everywhere these days.
They bought feeddemon. They ain't plan to sell the feeddemon software but to kill feeddemon market. It's like if you wanna use feeddemon after this you are gonna paid for newsgator's feeds subscibing service. If you won't paid for it, you won't see your feeds synchronized anymore.
This is exactly pain in the ass. They rent the software to you to let you see the feeds you paid for but you can read somewhere else for free?
Is this logical?
So if you don't want to rent the software for ever and never own it, it's time to leave feeddemon now. It's soon or later. Cause they don't even use serial number to activate product anymore. You need to use your paid online newsgator account to activate it. So nick's post about rethinking is a lie. You don't have a paid account, you won't able to activate feeddemon after you subscribition expires. Cause you don't have a paid newsgator account anymore. If your computer screws up one day, you need to reinstall your whole system including feeddemon but you won't be able to activate it in that period of time without a paid newsgator online account.
What you gonna do then? Or other situations similar like this.
It's time to screw up feeddemon as a stand alone newsgator for now. Cause its core is rotten now. It's not a software anymore. It's a door in the desktop environment you need to pay to pass to see the feeds free everywhere else just like newsgator outlook edition is not a software anymore but a door in the outlook environment you need to pay to pass to see the feeds free everywhere else.
This is newsgator's plan: kill you free pass in the desktop via feeddemon to news and rss and free pass in the outlook environment via outlook newsgator addon. Instead they build up two doors for you to rent to pass. At the end, news and rss is not free anymore. You need to pay to see it.
Feeddemon is dead as a software. It's a server based appendage like newsgator outlook version, it's like you need to pay to receive hotmail via outlook. But outlook still allow you to receive other email service like yahoo, feeddemon is newsgator server based only and won't allow you to use any other service other than newsgator.monopoly.
It's time for some other news aggregators to take over the empty space left by feeddemon and newgator in desktop and outlook news aggregator market.
Here they rise:Greatnews,intraVnews ,blogbot,rssowl,Awasu,Attensa!I don't believe in subscription-based software.