Tuesday, August 05, 2003

Newsgator 1.3 (an RSS news aggregator) is out.  Nice Microsoft Outlook integration and support for newsgroups (an area of declining interest).  It does require that you download .Net (20 Mb). I suspect the next step with Newsgator is to add publishing to a weblog via e-mail (Manila, Blogger, and MT).  Despite what people say about MS Word, the primary text editor people use is their e-mail system.  Given the direction of Newsgator, e-mail posting to weblogs is a natural evolution of the product. [John Robb's Weblog] 3:10:29 PM    Comment []Trackback []

Yahoo, Dotcoms Outpace Traditional Giants in Info Market. : Cut through the PR etc, and this has some interesting results: Yahoo and other more nimble upstarts are beating the traditional giants of information content industry at their own game, according to the new research by Outsell. Upstarts like... [PaidContent.org] 3:03:49 PM    Comment []Trackback []