Newsgator Go! for mobiles out tommorow
Marshall Kirkpatrick
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RSS vendor Newsgator will announce tomorrow a new service for reading RSS feeds on Windows Mobile phones. Called Newsgator Go! the program will cost about $30 and will sync its data with other members of the Newsgator family: NetNewsWire for Mac, FeedDemon for PCs, Newsgator Online and Newsgator Inbox for Outlook. Newsgator products are my favorite for reading feeds and I’m excited to hear that the company will come out with a Java reader in coming months.
One of the best things about the product is that it will allow specific groups of feeds to be designated for sharing across devices via an interface in Newsgator Online. I moved to using NetNewsWire on my desktop when I grew frustrated with Newsgator Online’s inability to display more than a thousand feeds without choking, though the company tells me they’ve vastly improved the speed of the online version in recent months. One way or the other, I only want and need so many feeds on my phone. Newsgator Go! will also cache feed items locally on your phone so you can read them without going online.
Other options for reading your feeds on the go include Bloglines Mobile, the FeedBurner Mobile Feed Reader, the multi-featured mobile hydra Winksite, Dave Winer’s mobile River of News for select feeds and the forthcoming mobile tool suite SynapseLife.
There’s a screenshot of the Newsgator Go! interface posted at MobileCrunch.
The popularity of services like Dave Winer’s river of news shows that there is a real need for mobile access to blogs, but at the moment there don’t seem to be many good RSS readers for mobiles which are actually easily usable on a regular basis (my opinion, anyway). Lets hope this one’s different!
I hate to say it, but I really dont want any crap on my cell phone. I like good ring tones, i like being able to find directions if i’m lost, but there’s nothing in a blog that i can’t pick up when I’m back online, and with so many news sources offline, i can pretty much get the news any time, no handheld necessary.
i don’t know. maybe i’m old. hehe.
Yeh, Dave has brought a bunch of attention to RSS and mobility… I think RSS and mobile is a killer app - it is for me. The River of News is a great approach. NewsGator Go! takes a different approach that is a bit more structured. The biggest advantage in using NewsGator Go! is the synchronization w/ the other NewsGator products that avoids reading content more than once in an already content overloaded world.
If you have a Windows Mobile device, give Go! a go.
kevin@newsgator
Who doesn’t want to know the latest going on at your favorite blog every minute of the day?
I can see the everyday person jumping all over this!
Patricia I am no young pup, but I gotta tell you reading my RSS feeds while away from my computer is pretty cool (I don’t have cool ring tones, so I am probably even older than you
On the bus commute from Boulder to Denver I have already caught upon all my breaking news for the day using NewsGator Go! when most folks haven’t even had a cup of coffee yet
that is nice!
Love the idea of Mobile RSS, but I would want this for only a select few of my feeds, certainly not all of them. ESPN has done a good job of breaking ground here with mobile sports updates. I can certainly see this catching on.
nokia has the best news reader built into all series 60 phones.
Carlo, I have a Nokia 7610 and it doesn’t have a built-in rss news reader
I’ve got to agree with Kevin: NewsGator Go! is perfect for bus commuting. By the time I get to the office, I’ve read through most of my RSS feeds and can then get some real work done.
Honestly, being able to read RSS on my phone is one of the greatest features of having a web enabled phone in the first place.
In Web 2.0 any service that is mobile enable is poised to become successful.
but kevin, why do you want that? couldn’t you read the newspaper? or maybe check cnn when you get to the office?
i could see it doing well for stocks, i’m always wondering what the market is doing, i guess!
NewsGator has had a mobile version for awhile now, but only accessible online. They give you a customized url to view the feeds you have set for the group.
This however, will be a nice improvement. Ability to read your feeds offline.
A news RSS Reader for mobile and it’s free! You can choose your own feeds :
http://www.mirpod.com/blog.php.....mp;lang=en
the beauty of rss and newsgator go! is that i can get really targeted and timely content delivered to me whnever and wherever i am. for me, that content is purely about technology and business (business specific to tech).
in a newspaper i may only run across one article that satisfies this niche interest, but in newsgator go! or a river of news or your mobile rss reader of choice you are likely to find many articles on a daily basis (i typically have 25 to 100 articles a day that i consder relevna tand worthy of attention).
oops… reposting that preevious comment
The beauty of RSS and NewsGator Go! is that I can get really targeted and timely content delivered to me whenever and wherever I am. For me, that content is purely about technology and business (business specific to tech). Each person will have his or her unique topics of interest and RSS on mobile will provide a great channel for accessing that content.
In a newspaper I may only run across one article that satisfies my niche interest if I am lucky. But in NewsGator Go! or a river of news or your mobile RSS reader of choice you are likely to find many articles of interest on a daily basis (I typically have 25 to 100 articles a day that I consider relevant and worthy of attention). And the best time for me to consume these articles is during my bus commute w/ NewsGator Go!
Oh I see what you’re saying - it gives you more personalized news on the topics you want. Brilliant!
Now maybe I’d do it. hehe.
Hmm, $29.95…. or, I can use Google Reader’s mobile edition for free. Think I know which way I’ll be going.
roj new ring tones