http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/10/08/google-reader-gets-upgraded-they-hit-a-homerun/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/10/08/google-reader-gets-upgraded-they-hit-a-homerun/comment-page-1/#comment-36096 Venture Chronicles Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:54:30 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/10/08/google-reader-gets-upgraded-they-hit-a-homerun/#comment-36096 [...] Pluck is discontinuing their RSS client. Does this surprise anyone? It should not because this was a poorly differentiated product in a market overflowing with product and service options. It’s not that Pluck did a poor job building the product, indeed I thought it was one of the better, but what they could not overcome is the reality that the market for RSS clients as it exists today is commoditized. Consumers don’t care about obscure options in these products - prosumers (heavy users) do but they are a niche - and practically everyone who is anyone has a RSS client or is coming out with one, from Google’s newly revamped Reader to Microsoft’s upcoming IE7 with integrated feed browsing capability, leading to the perception that they are fungible, in other words one is as good as another. Newsgator is cleaning up the enterprise market, and congrats to them for recognizing this opportunity early and more importantly, delivering what enterprise IT needed in a RSS server product. [...] [...] Pluck is discontinuing their RSS client. Does this surprise anyone? It should not because this was a poorly differentiated product in a market overflowing with product and service options. It’s not that Pluck did a poor job building the product, indeed I thought it was one of the better, but what they could not overcome is the reality that the market for RSS clients as it exists today is commoditized. Consumers don’t care about obscure options in these products – prosumers (heavy users) do but they are a niche – and practically everyone who is anyone has a RSS client or is coming out with one, from Google’s newly revamped Reader to Microsoft’s upcoming IE7 with integrated feed browsing capability, leading to the perception that they are fungible, in other words one is as good as another. Newsgator is cleaning up the enterprise market, and congrats to them for recognizing this opportunity early and more importantly, delivering what enterprise IT needed in a RSS server product. [...]

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