He sees the acquisition as a way to gain many features his users were asking for, a support staff, and gives Brent more time to work on new features and bugs.
NETNEWSWIRE NEWSGATOR UPDATE
Update 2: Brent posted a personal perspective on his weblog. Greg mentioned there was a press briefing to announce the deal yesterday, yet I know that NewsGator remained quiet when questioned by bloggers. Update: Greg Reinacker, CTO and founder of NewsGator, writes more about the acquisition on his blog.
Note the generic business user on the NewsGator NetNewsWire page is not even using a Mac! NewsGator is still missing a recommended Linux or open source feed aggregation product or even a product with source committed by the NewsGator team. NewsGator, the developer of social networking and widget services for businesses and consumers, now has an updated version of its iPhone RSS app, NetNewsWire, available in the App Store today. NewsGator for Outlook covers the mail client integration, FeedDemon is the stand-alone option on the Windows desktop, NetNewsWire is the stand-alone client on the Macintosh, and NewsGator Online is the online option tying all of the properties together. NewsGator is now able to cover the entire feed aggregation landscape with its suite of products. Lack of a unified codebase and the company’s reliance on one engineer per product seems to be a weak point even with their much-touted APIs.
NETNEWSWIRE NEWSGATOR SOFTWARE
NewsGator Technologies now produces software in C#, ASP.net, Delphi, and Objective C. I presume NewsGator has acquired all of Ranchero software, including products such as editing software MarsEdit, and not just NetNewsWire.
The phrasing of the announcement is around NetNewsWire only. Brent Simmons, the creator of NetNewsWire, will be joining the NewsGator team as a product architect according to a release on the NewsGator site. So there aren't too many technical or competitive barriers for new entrants to the RSS Aggregator market - and little (if any) money to be made with basic RSS aggregation products.NewsGator Technologies has a new page on their site about the acquisition of NetNewsWire. RSS Aggregators are almost a commodity these days, especially since all the big 3 (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!) have RSS Readers. I think these kind of "Private Label" RSS Aggregators will become increasingly common, as mainstream media companies continue to ramp up their online and RSS strategies.
NETNEWSWIRE NEWSGATOR FULL
Macworld plans to release a private branded version (with full synchronization) of NetNewsWire, NewsGator’s market-leading RSS aggregator for the Mac.
Mark Walters, global director of, thinks integrating RSS aggregation into their online website will increase advertising and brand awareness, as well as enhance the online experience of their readers. Holston, president and CEO of NewsGator, said in the press release: “Online publishers are all looking to move beyond the orange ‘RSS’ button to enrich their brands with scalable, feature-rich personalization, driven by the publisher’s unique editorial voice."
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Their readers can then customize how they want to get news and information.Īs J.B. So Newsweek and Macworld will select the features they want and then deploy the aggregator in their own brand. NGHS is a user interface that allows online properties to build an RSS aggregator into their sites. NewsGator announced today that Newsweek and Macworld have selected NewsGator Hosted Solution (NGHS) Private Label RSS Aggregators will become increasingly common to integrate RSS aggregation into their online sites.
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