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RSS Readers Now Free
Free NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go! Benefit Consumers and Businesses
DENVER, Colo. -- Jan. 9, 2008 -- NewsGator announced today the general availability of NetNewsWire 3.1,
FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. The public
beta of NewsGator Inbox 3.0 also began today. The award-winning
products for PC (FeedDemon), Mac (NetNewsWire), Microsoft Outlook
(Inbox), and mobile (NewsGator Go!) deliver a best-of-breed RSS reading
experience that synchronizes through NewsGator[base ']s online platform. All
of the new product versions deliver a better user experience with the
inclusion of significant performance, usability, and relevance
enhancements.
NewsGator also announced that all of its client
RSS reader products are now available free of charge and include free
synchronization along with other services. Users can now enjoy the
great features and performance of all of NewsGator's Web, desktop and
mobile readers for iPhone, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry (powered by
FreeRange), all synchronized to provide the same view of their RSS
content no matter when or where they read it. Enterprise customers will
continue to enjoy the extended value of having all these clients
synchronize with NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES). The combination of
innovative client reader features and the ability to leverage core
platform data and capabilities have made NewsGator products dominant in
the enterprise.
"It's all about ubiquity," said Greg Reinacker,
NewsGator CTO and founder. "We have more than 100 Fortune 2000
companies using NewsGator Enterprise Server and our client products. In
selling to these enterprises, we discovered that thousands of knowledge
workers were already using one or more of our client products and we
learned that we could drive the relevance of everyone[base ']s experience by
using the community's anonymous content consumption patterns throughout
the system. In general, we found that the more people that used our
system, the more relevant we could make the product for each user. By
making it easier for knowledge workers to use our clients we
dramatically increase the size of our user community. Enterprises that
then deploy our server can take advantage of the synchronization and
increased relevance for every user supported by the system. Likewise,
we can extend these capabilities to our online platform, which
currently serves well over 1 million consumers and indexes 7 million
new articles per day. The result is tremendous value and continued
innovation for both consumer and enterprise users."
J.B.
Holston, NewsGator CEO and president, said, "We are uniquely positioned
to drastically expand the community of people working with RSS content.
The larger that community is, the more valuable the experience for
every user and for all of our services customers. That insight has led
us to undertake the significant investment to make all of our client
products free. Our 50 media and online publishing customers can now
take advantage of this valuable intersection of community and content.
With services such as our Widget Framework, these customers can
syndicate the most relevant content, on a branded basis, to a much
wider audience. In addition, we are rapidly growing our
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business by partnering with brands,
agencies, and information service companies that can use attention and
relevance metadata, provided by the NewsGator platform, to offer much
richer and more relevant content solutions to their audiences. Look for
more announcements about these efforts in the coming weeks."
Mike
Gotta, Principal Analyst with Burton Group, said, "Burton Group has
long been focusing on the evolution and business impact of RSS
platforms in the enterprise. Making readers more available for all
workers inside an organization makes it easier for people to
participate in an RSS platform and makes it more possible to deliver a
consistent feed reading experience across multiple application
contexts. Not only is this a usability and productivity benefit for
workers but the enterprise wins as well since the underlying RSS
platform is able to capture and analyze relevant data on a much broader
basis. Wider adoption of its free clients will likely generate a
tremendous amount of relevance information, which can be used to
augment systems installed at customer sites."
The improved
relevance information in NewsGator's online platform will also drive
further innovation within each of the RSS clients.
"When I joined NewsGator," said Nick
Bradbury, creator of FeedDemon, "I had a vision of FeedDemon leveraging
the power of NewsGator's platform to give PC users a better reading
experience. Making all the clients free helps make that platform even
richer and more powerful - I'm very excited about the possibilities and
have some great features planned for the next release of FeedDemon."
"The
NewsGator platform enhancements will also enable great new features for
Mac users," said Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire. "Syncing with
the NewsGator platform already makes NetNewsWire faster and lets users
read their feeds on an iPhone. With these enhancements it will be even
easier to recommend the best feeds and the coolest stories in
NetNewsWire, creating a better user experience for both consumer and
enterprise users."
All client products are available for free download from the NewsGator website (www.newsgator.com).
Additional information is available via this FAQ. For inquiries about
partner relationships, please contact Jeff Nolan
(jeffn(at)newsgator.com).
About NewsGator Technologies
NewsGator
Technologies is the world[base ']s leading enterprise 2.0 and RSS company.
Headquartered in Denver, Colo., NewsGator develops and markets RSS
aggregation solutions for individual end users, enterprises and online
content providers. Using NewsGator products and solutions, businesses
and consumers can subscribe to news, information, podcasts and other
relevant content more efficiently and effectively than with traditional
channels. With NewsGator, users have access to RSS information via the
Web, Microsoft Outlook, mobile devices and both Windows- and Mac-based
desktop clients. All NewsGator products synchronize seamlessly,
enabling users to read their RSS feeds anywhere, anytime, with any
device. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com.
Contact Information
Laura Farrelly
NewsGator
303-552-2046
lauraf(at)newsgator.com
Jennifer Gazin or Corey Lewis
LaunchSquad
415.625.8555
newsgator(at)launchsquad.com
Note: FREE RSS software downloads available here at the NewsGator RSS Suite.
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