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I was thinking some more about the post I wrote yesterday on Apple value and it intersected with another observation I made about something completely unrelated. For the last couple of days I have had a guy working on our house, specifically he is a metal fabricator and I hired him to make copper pieces [...]
The DNC and RNC were exciting events for us, newspapers really grabbed on to the notion of feed aggregation and immediacy as a service for their readers. We aggregated over 200 political blogs, wire service content and Qik streaming video direct from the conventions. The Post and Pioneer Press might have been helped by widget [...]
This is actually a bigger deal than simply an inconvenience. Many media publishers are now relying on RSS to not only take inbound content but also publish it out and when latency is introduced in the plumbing it creates larger problems for publishers. RSS is an infrastructure and when providers of the services fail to [...]
Today we released some statistics for adoption and usage of our NetNewsWire for iPhone application. To recap, this is the downloadable and installable version of NNW for the iPhone, not the web-based version we launched last year when the original iPhone was released. # There are over 200,000 users of NetNewsWire for iPhone # Over [...]
Even though I am officially on vacation this week, I did want to blog about some cool stuff we are doing at the DNC in NewsGator’s hometown this week. The Big Tent stuff is getting some great coverage, and our widget is aggregating feeds from a whole bunch of blogs that are covering the event. [...]
Yeah this is NewsGator widget business but near the end of the article there is a great statement from Rob Covey that underscores the opportunity that companies face as they take in a new generation of young workers. Covey added that some of the inspiration for the new application came from National Geographic newsroom employees [...]
NewsGator and mSpoke have been quietly working together for several months on a range of projects. In addition to having some kick ass technology, we really like the mSpoke team and are excited that fruits from our working projects are beginning to be realized. Sean Ammirati wrote a thoughtful post on our Widgets Blog about [...]
NetNewsWire is now available on the iPhone. I don’t normally write about every product that we release but this one is really really cool because it takes full advantage of the touch interface to vastly enhance the user experience of a mobile feed reader. Apple made a couple of really strange design choices, like the [...]