RSS Delivery Gets Around with NewsGator Upgrade

摘要

NewsGator, makers of the NewsGator news aggregator, announced the release of version 2.0 last month, adding a slew of significant new features, including a subscription-driven online service that provides access to exclusive content, the ability to view RSS feeds from virtually any device anywhere, and the capacity to extend the program to work with enterprise data delivered as RSS feeds. I've been looking at and reviewing various programs and utilities, and I believe NewsGator is going to jet past the pack when 2.0 hits the streets, says Chris Pirillo, who runs Lockergnome's RSS Resource, a site devoted to RSS information. A news aggregator is a software package that reads and displays content delivered in the form of an RSS feed--an XML standard for content syndication. There are several reasons for this leap forward. Version 1.x of the NewsGator software offered a desktop client that worked in Outlook. Version 2.0 extends beyond Outlook, to work from any POP3 mail client, a Web-based client, and a mobile edition that runs on any Web-enabled mobile device. This provides a way to get RSS news feeds from anywhere, and with a new synchronization system users never have to read the same story twice, regardless of which device they access NewsGator. This flexibility impresses Pirillo, who says, As far as their Web, POP, and mobile services are concerned, they're spot on. The new version also includes an online subscription service, which provides access to exclusive online content ranging from technical content from CMP and InfoWorld to things like Full Tilt Features comic strips.