RSS in Plain English

This video is awesome… we’ve all seen the “whiteboard genre” before but this one is particularly effective in my opinion, an observation borne out of many attempts to explain RSS to my mom.

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Attention Data : Users vs. Content

I just posted what I think is a good discussion about attention data and what it means over on the EnterpriseRSS blog. The topic itself is kind of vague even though it’s actually a pretty simple set of concepts.

There is a lot of good stuff happening in this area and at least 15 very interesting […]

UI Obsessiveness Pays Off

One of the things you learn quickly about Brent Simmons is that there is no detail too small to not warrant an inordinate amount of attention to getting it just right. This attention to detail pays off, NNW consistently ranks as one of the most popular Mac applications.

Normally this is kind of a […]

My New Position at NewsGator

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=811444

When I joined NewsGator last year I knew the company had not just a great team but also an impressive portfolio of products. I quickly realized that we had something very unique among enterprise software companies, the ability to create a saas business that was not dependent on the enterprise business but whose success would […]

NewsGator Client Apps Want to Be FREE!

Today we announced that NewsGator Inbox for Outlook, FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, NewsGator Go! for Blackberry, Windows Mobile and iPhone, and NewsGator Online are now available for free. That’s right, the license costs you zero, zip, nada.

But that’s not all, we have also released new versions of FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, and Go! mobile apps, and a public beta […]

NewsGator Wants You!

It’s true, we’re growing and we want you!

You are an experienced software sales person. You just drained your 2007 sales pipeline and are frustrated with the lack of growth of your existing company. You want to join a well funded company with great products, loads of referenceable customers, in a market that is […]

NewsGator Funding News, or We’re Gettin The Band Back Together

Today we announced that the company has closed on a $12 million round of financing, led by Vista Ventures and with full participation of existing investors Mobius (Brad Feld) and Masthead (Rich Levandov).

Lisa Reeves, my former colleague at SAP Ventures who left SAP this year to join Boulder-based VC VIsta Ventures, is leading for Vista […]

Converting the Faithful

When I joined NewsGator I understood that the company was not only a big Windows shop but also relied heavily on Microsoft foundation technologies. I also established early on that I wasn’t leaving my MacBook Pro at home, so the company’s Mac user population doubled overnight (Brent Simmons is, obviously, a Mac user).

Well I’m happy […]

NewsGator’s OpenSocial Webinar on 12/5

NewsGator is hosting a webinar on Wednesday Dec 5 at 2pm EST / 11am PST to discuss the basics of OpenSocial. Brian Kellner and Walker Fenton, both from NewsGator, will join Kevin Marks from Google for the call.

You will learn ways to take advantage of the inherent social capabilities of OpenSocial’s hosts like […]

OpenSocial Developer Journal

Over on our EnterpriseRSS blog there is a developing series of posts about what it means to develop applications for Google’s OpenSocial. Authored by Brian Kellner, VP Products for NewsGator, the posts offer a level of granularity not found in alot of the coverage I have been reading.

NewsGator, Google, OpenSocial

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