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NewsGator Releases New Versions of Client Products; Best-of-Breed RSS Readers Now Free
Free NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go! Benefit Consumers and Businesses
| Source: NewsGator
DENVER, CO--(Marketwire - January 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'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'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'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.