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NewsGator case study – Triple Point Technology

We’ve published our first NewsGator case study – take a look! There’s lots of info about how Triple Point is using RSS, weblogs, and NewsGator within their company. An excerpt:

Using NewsGator and other tools, Triple Point Technology has transformed the way they share information within the enterprise. From critical build and release notifications, to internal publishing and collaboration, publishing via RSS has dramatically changed their information landscape. NewsGator provides seamless access to this information, all while preserving the familiar user experience of Microsoft Outlook.

Read it here.

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NewsGator 1.3 beta

Well, it’s about that time again. We need some “brave” folks to step up and start working with the latest NewsGator 1.3 build. Here’s a partial list of changes:

  • Added plain-text publishing capability
  • Tighened Outlook folder integration
  • Improved performance and stability
  • Output HTML is now optionally cleaned and converted to xhtml
  • Added ability to retrieve specific feeds
  • Added option to show complete articles on NewsPage
  • Added support for NNTP newsgroup “feeds”
  • Added new feed wizard, including search and directory support
  • Added offline posting mode, and ability to save drafts of posts
  • Lots of fixes for various problems
This build should be available later today or early tomorrow.
 
If you would like to participate, please send me a note, including your OS version, Outlook version, and whether or not you use NewsGator’s posting capabilities. Please only sign up if you have time to install and test this and subsequent builds!
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Feedback on NewsGator 1.2


Wow…I’m a little
overwhelmed by the great feedback on NewsGator
1.2. Many thanks to everyone…you all
contributed to making yesterday the single largest traffic day to date on newsgator.com, by a long
shot.

 

And a quick
announcement, we will be shipping WMP9 support in all of our posting plug-ins within
a couple of days. Matt has already added this to the
Movable Type plug-in; you can download that one immediately.

 

Here are a few
comments about 1.2, for your reading pleasure: :-)

 

Chris Pirillo –
“Pure, unadulterated awesome.”

 

Christian
Nordbakk – “it
R.O.C.K.S!”

 

Shawn Morrissey
– “Wahoo!  This is great news…”

 

Sam Gentile – “I
always liked NewsGator…”

 

Charles
Cook – “An impressive piece of work…”

 


Robert Scoble
– “This is freaking
awesome.”

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NewsGator 1.2 Released!


NewsGator 1.2 has
been released!  I won’t duplicate the release announcements…here are the
important links:

 






 

Posting support is
available today
for:


  • Blogger
  • Radio
    Userland
  • BlogX

  • dotnetweblogs.com
  • Movable Type
    (courtesy Matt Berther)
  • EraBlog.NET.

Here are some screen
shots of some of the visual items that have changed. This is only a small
subset of the feature set…and we’re only highlighting changes since
1.1.

 

The NewsGator menu
has moved to the toolbar:



New post items have
been added to the menu…



And of course new
configuration options:



Outlook
auto-preview, which works well with NewsGator, was always hampered by the links
at the top of every post, which would fill up most of the
auto-preview. There is now an option to move the links, for “clean”
auto-preview:



Prior to Outlook
2003, it was unfortunate in that you could never see the URL that a link was
going to open; NewsGator 1.2 adds tooltips to most links:



If you like the
NewsPage, you’ll like it even more with inline post
excerpts:



And also on the
NewsPage, you can now read all posts from the “unread posts” section by
expanding each feed…



Enjoy! We look
forward to your feedback and comments.

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IBlogExtension and NewsGator

I’m pleased to announce that NewsGator 1.2 will include full support for IBlogExtension, and we will simultaneously release plug-ins for most major weblog publishing tools.

Apparently the Blogger folks were first to the BlogThis name by about 4 years, so BlogThis is now IBlogExtension, and the interface definition has be revised based on earlier discussions between Greg, Luke, Matt, and I. The revised assembly is available on the IBlogExtension page. I’ll be posting versions of Synderilla and Relaxer that support this soon.
NewsGator 1.2 has enjoyed the most widely distributed pre-release program since NewsGator was released. We expect a final 1.2 release next week, if everything continues on schedule.

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Posting from NewsGator

The current 1.2 beta release of NewsGator supports posting to your weblog, if you’re using Radio, blogger.com, or dotnetweblogs.com. Support for Movable Type and BlogX should be coming soon.

Anyway, we need a few more folks on the beta who are interested in using NewsGator to post to
their weblogs. If you’re interested, send me a note!

It’s also very easy to write plug-ins for other weblog systems; if you’re interested in doing that,
I’d be happy to send you some code to get started.

(By the way, this post brought to you straight from Outlook… :-)

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NewsGator and Outlook 2003

It’s not often I’m blown away by how well something works, but this time I am.

With Outlook 2003 and NewsGator installed, create a Search Folder to display unread messages in your news folder. By default, they will be grouped by folder – perfect! This really takes the place of what the NewsPage does for OL2003 users.

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