Omar Shahine has published a NewsGator posting plug-in for dasBlog:
I’ve finished up my NewsGator plug-in for DasBlog. You can download the installer by going to the GotDotNet DasBlog workspace releases page.
Very cool – thanks Omar!
I read this post from Scoble:
At the PDC there was this $700,000 Mercedes taunting me. It was saying “go ahead, take a picture!” So I did. Only one exists in the US right now. $450,000 list price, but I met a dealer there who had already sold two of them for $700,000 each (delivery starts next spring). $50,000 deposit required. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
Some great pictures of a super-nice car. But the coolest part is hidden in one of the pictures – he’s wearing a NewsGator shirt!
So I think what we can take away from this is, people who like the Mercedes SLR will like NewsGator. That logic follows, right? :-)
If you’re going to the PDC, be sure to come to the Weblogger BOF session – we’ll be giving away a couple of NewsGator licenses, and possibly a couple of other items.
See you there!
Over the weekend, Scoble talked about how he uses NewsGator to read 618 weblogs and feeds. Wow! If he tries out the search folders with NewsGator in Outlook 2003 (as mentioned here), he’ll probably like it even better.
After reading Scoble’s post, Craig Burton decided to give NewsGator a try. Craig says:
I downloaded Newsgator and played with it for a while. I really like it. So far I only have about 70 feeds to watch.
I then worked on Amphetadesk for a while. It took me longer to set up 25 feeds in Amphetadesk than it did the 70 in Newsgator.
That’s what I like to hear! :-)
Sweet! Webmonkey has built an Outlook Today screen which contains NewsGator posts. Check it out!
From an interesting article about RSS and marketing by Dick Stroud, in What’s New in Marketing, issue 22.
Until recently, if I wanted to view IBM’s RSS channels, it required a software program called an aggregator, sometimes called a newsreader. […] While this is useful I think it would have only been used by the techno-geek community if it had not been for a company called Newsgator.
Other than a Web browser the software that people spend a frightening amount of their life gazing at is Microsoft Outlook. Newsgator had the brilliant idea of enabling Outlook to receive and view information from RSS channels.
Thanks Dick!
James Edelin has been busy:
I have been using NewsGator for the good part of this year. It is an AWESOME program. I can already read my SharePoint stuff in it thanks to Harry’s WSS RSS generator. So I was thinking, wouldn’t it be great if you could post information to SharePoint using Outlook? I have taken that idea and worked on creating a NewsGator plugin for SharePoint… [Jim’s Thoughts]
Wow…very cool, Jim!
After way too much pain with the old forum software (which was the old beta www.asp.net forum code) being used for the NewsGator forums, I’ve finally migrated to a commercial system (InstantForum.NET)…hopefully this one will work out a little better!
Those of you subscribed to the forum RSS feed will see a whole set of new posts – the feed is slightly different, so all the posts are detected as new.
Also, if you’re an existing user, you’ll need to login a bit differently…see this post for details.
I’ve often thought my customers are smarter than me…and today, one of them proved it yet again!
I had always thought ActiveSync could only sync up your Inbox and subfolders…but it turns out, if you know what you’re doing, you can sync any folders…including your NewsGator news folders. To do this, do the following:
First, from ActiveSync, right-click on Inbox and click Settings… (this is the part I didn’t know about!):
You’ll then get a window where you can select the folders you want to sync. Select your NewsGator news folders:
And there you go! All of your RSS feeds, automatically synchronized with your Pocket PC. It doesn’t get any cooler than that! :-)
Many thanks to the person who pointed this out to me, and who painstakingly sent me screenshots when I repeatedly didn’t get it. Unfortunately, this person asked to remain anonymous…but I’m sure if you leave your lavish praise in the comments here, he’ll read them. ;-)
In the October 1 issue of PC Magazine, NewsGator and three other aggregators were reviewed – NewsGator tied for the highest rating in the review, 4/5.
Don’t underestimate the convenience factor here…NewsGator has a lot to offer.
I’ll post a link when the review hits their web site.
UPDATE (9/14): the review is now online.