A couple of weeks ago, we sent a couple of engineers up to the Microsoft Technology Center in Mountain View, to work with some Microsoft guys to do load/performance testing of the upcoming (real soon now) NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES).   So first, a big thanks to Zach and Luis at Microsoft who helped with this all week - they were...

As many have noticed, and blogged about, NewsGator's individual products (meaning everything except NewsGator Enterprise Server) are now all sold on a subscription basis. This includes Outlook edition 2.5, and the upcoming FeedDemon 1.6. Actually Outlook edition 2.0 was sold on a subscription basis starting earlier this year, but we didn't make...

Mark Fletcher of Bloglines has been writing some interesting things lately. First, in a response to Jim Louderback's recent article (discussed here), Mark writes: "I agree with your article on eWeek about Newsgator creating a walled garden." I already pointed out how we're not creating any kind of walled garden, and Jim Louderback agreed with that...

By now you've probably see the two major announcements from NewsGator Technologies being made today at CES: NewsGator 2.0NewsGator Online Services Both of these will be publicly available on January 19. Between now and then, I'll be posting lots of info here about what's new and different, and why we're excited about it. Stay tuned - LOTS more to...

Omar Shahine has published a NewsGator posting plug-in for dasBlog: I've finished up my NewsGator plug-in for DasBlog. You can download the installer by going to the GotDotNet DasBlog workspace releases page. Very cool - thanks Omar!

I'm pleased to announce that I will be participating in a teleseminar called "Blogging for Business", where we'll be discussing, believe it or not, blogging and RSS in business scenarios. Debbie Weil (author of the WordBiz Report) is putting it together, and Dave Taylor (of Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours and Solaris 9 for Dummies fame) will be...

Dave Winer on RSS enclosures: Chris Lydon has been doing a series of audio interviews on his weblog at Harvard. There are already over 25 interviews, representing 40 separate MP3 files. The archive is nearly 300MB. It's a perfect application for RSS enclosures. [Scripting News] Eek...any time I see an automatic 300MB download being a perfect...

The original code I had posted to generate RSS feeds from a VSS database has expired; I just put up a new version that will work through the end of October, and fixed a couple of bugs at the same time. This is an awesome tool (IMHO) - check it out! :-) Refer to the original post for instructions. Download here: msi | zip

The rumors and stories this morning are true...NewsGator has acquired NetNewsWire.  Here's the press release, and a Q&A about the deal.  This is awesome news - we're all very excited about it! The rationale here is similar to what I posted about the FeedDemon deal.  Our system is designed to let users define the information...

The rumors and stories this morning are true...NewsGator has acquired NetNewsWire.  Here's the press release, and a Q&A about the deal.  This is awesome news - we're all very excited about it! The rationale here is similar to what I posted about the FeedDemon deal.  Our system is designed to let users define the information...

This was too cool not to post...at least I thought so. :-) Behold, the first NewsGator Enterprise Server CD:

This was too cool not to post...at least I thought so. :-) Behold, the first NewsGator Enterprise Server CD:

For those of you who will be at Web 2.0, please come join us for a drink Thursday 10/6 at 5:30pm! We'll have some interesting news at the conference, and several folks from NewsGator will be there to chat with. Time: Thursday Oct 6, 5:30pm - 7:00pm Location: Moscone Suite, 33rd Floor, Argent Hotel (this is the conference hotel, just jump in the...

For those of you who will be at Web 2.0, please come join us for a drink Thursday 10/6 at 5:30pm! We'll have some interesting news at the conference, and several folks from NewsGator will be there to chat with. Time: Thursday Oct 6, 5:30pm - 7:00pm Location: Moscone Suite, 33rd Floor, Argent Hotel (this is the conference hotel, just jump in the...

Yep, it's true...on Friday night, Sep 30 (yes that is Q3!), the final bits for NewsGator Enterprise Server 1.0 were burned to a master CD.  It's being duplicated and shipped to customers this morning. I'm still in a bit of shock. This product has been a long time (about a year or so) in the making...and nearly everyone at NewsGator has had...