FeedDemon and other NewsGator RSS clients now Free!
Posted on January 9, 2008, under Current Events, Web Dev/Tech.
NewsGator and Nick Bradbury (primary developer behind FeedDemon, TopStyle, HomeSite) announced today that their line of RSS clients, including the stellar FeedDemon, are now free! That is awesome!
I have been using FeedDemon as my primary RSS aggregator for over a year, and have loved it. Very quick, responsive, and a nice interface to read and manage feeds. I also subscribe to the (not free) NewsGator Online service to sync my feeds and clippings across 2 FeedDemon clients and the NewsGator Online client. Makes it very easy to stay on top of a lot of information.
Here are the available NewsGator RSS clients that are now free:
- FeedDemon – Windows client
- NetNewsWire – Mac OS X client
- NewsGator Inbox – Microsoft Outlook client
- NewsGator Go! – Mobile client
- NewsGator Online – Web client (has always been free)
They also posted some FAQs to address how this change fits their business model and isn’t NewsGator dumping their the RSS clients.
Update: Turns out they are making their synchronization service available for free as well – cool!
Fwd: Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore
Posted on November 14, 2007, under Web Dev/Tech.
Thanks to Eric Kintz for posting an entry I’d been thinking about doing myself since last year:
Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore
My particular favorites:
- #3- Loyal readers coming back daily to check your posts is so Web 1.0
- #4 – Frequent posting is actually starting to have a negative impact on loyalty
My daily web reading is mainly facilitated through RSS feed subscriptions (point 3), and I have actually unsubscribed to several feeds who just posted too often (point 4). They were clogging up my RSS reader, and making me feel constantly behind. So out they went!
Generally speaking, I think the frequent-post mentality is old school, so please don’t do it. I might unsubscribe.
Super easy SharePoint RSS/ATOM reader
Posted on October 6, 2006, under Web Dev/Tech.
I happened to stumble upon George Tsiokos’ Windows SharePoint Services RSS (WSS-RSS) RSS/ATOM reader today – awesome! His use of XLST to convert RSS feeds to a native Windows SharePoint Services DataViewWebPart (DWP) file makes it possible for any Portal or Team Site administrator to add RSS feeds to their SharePoint pages.
You don’t even need to download a utility! Just use the form on his blog post to generate the DWP file that you use to import into SharePoint as a WebPart. The whole process takes seconds.
Thanks George!!