Comments on: Newsgator releases useful toolbar – look out Bloglines

By: bizuteria

bizuteria — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:39:36 +0000

Note taken re NNW, thanks.

By: Bloggers Buzz

Bloggers Buzz — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:15:25 +0000

NewsGator Introduces Beta Version of Toolbars for Firefox and Internet Explorer…

Some news from NewsGator:
Denver, CO — Aug. 9, 2006 — Last night, NewsGator released beta versions of new toolbars for Firefox and Internet Explorer. These toolbars allow you to extend the NewsGator experience directly into the browsers. Ke…

By: Linking Up (8/11)-- Stepping in Faith

Linking Up (8/11)-- Stepping in Faith — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:42:01 +0000

[...] New RSS feed. Techcrunch has reported a new RSS reader, called Newsgator, that may be able to rival Bloglines (my reader). Though Techcrunch loves to find and expose the up-and-coming of the tech world, the feedback on this new program was not so favorable. [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:33:27 +0000

Wasn’t there spyware or malware out a couple of years ago that was called gator something or other?! That app made me gunshy of any applications or companies related to the word ‘gator’.

I’m starting to get itchy already!

By: Eric Mooney

Eric Mooney — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:32:13 +0000

Wasn’t there spyware or malware out a couple of years ago that was called gator something or other? That app made me gunshy of any applications or companies related to the word ‘gator’.

I’m starting to get itchy already!

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:05:08 +0000

I’ve been using Newsgator for the past two weeks, because Bloglines continues to have problems with feed counts getting updated. I really don’t like Newsgator’s interface (I like the frames and keyboard shortcuts of Bloglines), and I find that Bloglines is significantly faster. However, until Bloglines gets their feed monitoring problems fixed, I’m going to be using Newsgator.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:42:17 +0000

I wish Newsgator would add keyboard shortcuts for their web based reader. They’ve got it down as a feature request but haven’t added it yet. That’s the only thing that’s keeping me from moving away from Bloglines.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:17:57 +0000

This is a great news and yet more cool stuff from the NewsGator team. I’ve been very impressed with their approach. I use a PC at home, Mac at work (how’s that for a non-traditional mix??), and the new beta Smartphone NewsGator reader on my MS Smartphone. The only piece that is missing is a method of sharing content/feeds with my friends similar to the public view of Newsgator. But all in all, the NG team is doing incredible work.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:28:31 +0000

IE7 beta 3 – probably not many people using it yet, but when MS roll it out as part of an update in a month or two it will impact a few people.

Newsgator said this: I’ve run the feed through FeedValidator, and it appears to have a number of problems:
http://feedvali...om%2FTechcrunch

By: duncanriley.com » Techcrunch thinks Bloglines is in trouble because Newgator has a toolbar…hmmm.

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:29:37 +0000

[...] Bizarre post from Marshall Kirkpatrick over at Techcrunch suggesting that Bloglines needs to look out because…wait for it…Newsgator has launched a toolbar. [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:39:25 +0000

Jonathan – not sure what set up you have but I have no problems reading TC online or in Outlook

By: /pd

/pd — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:33:50 +0000

Not sure, why users will want to have another toolbar to install !!

Secondly, mobile bloglines is working just fine mobile device- its stickiness is great.. !!

By: Ping Liang

Ping Liang — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:32:49 +0000

Aggregation is just aggregation. The toolbar just helps you collect more. The question is what are you going to do with all the feeds you subscribe? Once your subscription list grows to more than a hundred feeds, they just pile up and you do not have time to read them. What is needed is ways that will help users find the important stuff from the large influx and get to them quickly. That is what we do.

By: zoointhesky

zoointhesky — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:11:04 +0000

Try the new browser on the block: Flock. It uses the Firefox/Mozilla engine to render pages, but has some really cool features for those online junkies that blog and flickr themselves to death… And, to the point, it has one-click RSS subscription functionality by default.

By: mahesh

mahesh — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:30:47 +0000

TechCrunch article about Newgator. It sounds like a decent toolbar, with some good uses….

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By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:40:39 +0000

Note taken re NNW, thanks.

By: Paul Roberts

Paul Roberts — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:25:51 +0000

“This is a very smart addition to the company’s offerings that I’m surprised took so long and I wish it was available for the Mac desktop program NetNewWire.”

Mike, you don’t need this for one-click subscribing on the Mac with NNW.

If you’re in Safari or NNW, click on the RSS link (Blue RSS icon in the address bar in Safari and an orange icon on the bottom right of the browser screen in NNW) and it will automatically open up the “Subscribe to this Feed” dialog in NNW with the info prepopulated.

To make this work, you go into Safari preferences and select NNW as your default RSS aggregator (which makes this a system wide default preference).

I am not sure how this would work in Firefox or other browsers, but it may work the same.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:54:21 +0000

Unfortunately Techcrunch doesn’t display at all well in Newsgator. In fact every second post is unreadable. After pointing it out to Newsgator support they told me it is a problem with the TC xml…

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:49:22 +0000

Hmm… this will be close to useless in FF 2.0 though. The product incorporates one click subscriptions for several newsreaders ‘out of the box’ and you can add others.

I like Rojo too… no one else that I’m aware of allows me to apply multiple tags to a feed.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Newsgator、便利なツールバーをリリース－Bloglinesに警報

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Newsgator、便利なツールバーをリリース－Bloglinesに警報 — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:46:16 +0000

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By: mahalie

mahalie — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:26:41 +0000

I’m surprised there’s no references here to Rojo. It’s been covered on TechCrunch before and other than some unforgiving non-parsing malformed feeds, I’ve found Rojo much easier to look at and use. It provides great tools for discovering related feeds both through it’s digg-like ‘mojo’ feature and links above feeds that suggest related blogs to you. You can add a one-click Rojo bookmark and favorite articles are kept in one place so you don’t have to hunt and peck as with Bloglines (you can also link to this ‘favorited’ list if you want to share what you’ve been reading on your blog). I haven’t compared the search features.

That said I still use Firefox’s live bookmarks to monitor my favorite newsgroups.

I just ran across an article that sums up some big differences from someone who converted to Rojo, tried Newsgator Online among others, after Bloglines had some technical issues for a couple of days: http://blogs.te...yebloglines.htm

By: Joshua Kaufman

Joshua Kaufman — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:36:29 +0000

I would actually use NewsGator because I’m quite fond of its ability to sync with NetNewsWire, but I don’t because – compared to Bloglines – it’s practically unreadable. Everything is too small and there’s not enough spacing. What they need much more than a toolbar is a good designer.

By: Charlie Wood

Charlie Wood — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:47:36 +0000

There’s no need for a similar toolbar for NetnewsWire, at least not for one-click subscribe with Safari. In Safari’s preferences under the “RSS” tab, just select NetNewsWire as your default RSS reader. Then when you click on a link to a feed, it will open in NNW.

By: Jan Zamrek

Jan Zamrek — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:53:17 +0000

Would be much better if they actually released a Firefox .XPI extension for FF users instead of having them install that pesky .exe file.

Also tell me this:- why in the world has no company (to my knowledge) released a product with the ability to discover feeds en masse? Many don’t have this feature, while others that do only work on a per-site basis… darn tedious.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:52:28 +0000

I personally don’t like toolbars too much (the only one I’m using is the web developer toolbar for Firefox), as with too many toolbars, the interface gets cluttered. But, this is a good move for them, since by increasing the usefulness, they’re sure to get more/retain users – and toolbars themselves arre good at generating revenues.