I hoped for an insight on what BlackPixel is doing with NetNewsWire. Still no good sync options whatsoever... Still no sync-enabled iOS apps...
What Happened at NewsGator
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Re: What Happened at NewsGator
#12It's a good article.
I would love to read more background on the acquisitions of MarsEdit, NNW, and Glassboard. MarsEdit 3.0 was released in 2010 and since then has only seen minor updates. NNW is dead in the water on OS X and completely gone on iOS. And Glassboard is losing significant amounts of money while the author spends more time on blog posts and podcasts than adding features to the app (not to talk about all those crashes).
Re: What Happened at NewsGator
#13"In addition to straight RSS reading it had some kind of controls for making groups of people. An admin could say, for instance, that all developers are subscribed to these ten feeds, plus whatever else they might want." I had a similar idea a few years ago but didn't think there was a market for it. RSS feeds don't use up a lot of bandwidth so you couldn't use that angle (even in a country like South Africa, where I…
I don't think there's ever been much market for RSS as such, because RSS is just a means to an end. Companies, particularly big ones, are constantly trying to improve internal communications. Think HR newsletters, IT updates (we're upgrading to Windows XP! [hey, they're enterprises]), the CEO's newsletter, version 27 of internal tool Foo is being released and what it means to you, whatever. They want better internal communications and it looked like RSS could help, so they bought it.
NewsGator (now Sitrion) still does this with Social Sites, they just do it as a Facebook-ish newsfeed rather than as an RSS reader. Same goal, different implementation.
Re: What Happened at NewsGator
#14«And then I went straight to work — February 1, 2013 — at Q Branch, where I plan to be for the rest of my career.»
Interesting resolution.