NewsGator wird Google Reader

NewsGator, das RSS Tool meiner Wahl, hat wichtige Neuigkeiten bekannt gegeben. Der Webservice von NewsGator wird demnächst komplett durch den Google Reader ersetzt. Die Synchronisation der Progamme Feed Demon (Windows) und NetNewsWire (Mac) wird in Zukunft auch über den Google Reader abgewickelt. Zu der ganzen Umstellung habe ich von NewsGator folgende Mail erhalten:

You spoke and we listened: in response to customer demand, NewsGator’s best-of-breed consumer RSS applications now work with Google Reader. Google Reader will become the online companion to and the synchronization platform for our award-winning RSS reader applications – FeedDemon and NetNewsWire.

In conjunction with this announcement, NewsGator is making changes to several of its consumer RSS Readers. NewsGator will continue to support all its individual end-user applications for enterprise customers. However, NewsGator will continue to develop and support only a sub-set of these applications for free consumer use. FeedDemon and NetNewsWire have new versions for consumers that we encourage you to download as soon as possible. NewsGator’s other individual end-user applications will not continue to be supported for free consumer users after August 31, 2009. Again, all of NewsGator’s individual end-user applications will continue to be supported for paying Enterprise customers.

As part of this transition, NewsGator Online users will need to migrate to Google Reader by August 31, 2009. In addition, NewsGator will no longer support the free versions of NewsGator Inbox, NewsGator Go!, and NewsGator’s RSS features (Shared Clipping Feed, Blogroll, Ratings, Headlines, Browser Toolbar, and Desktop Notifier). NewsGator will also continue to support FeedDemon (for Windows) and NetNewsWire (for Mac and iPhone) for all customers – free or paid. If you have questions as to whether or not you qualify as a paying enterprise customer, please contact your account manager.

With these product changes, we recommend that you take the following actions (to assist you, we have a list of recommendations, step-by-step transition instructions, and informative FAQs on our website):

FeedDemon – you may continue to use your current version (synchronization won’t be supported after August 31, 2009). However, we recommend that you download the latest version of FeedDemon and sign-up for a Google Reader account for synchronization. Please refer to our transition instructions for assistance.
NetNewsWire for Mac – you may continue to use your current version (synchronization won’t be supported after August 31, 2009). However, we recommend that you download the latest version of NetNewsWire and sign-up for a Google Reader account for synchronization. Please refer to our transition instructions for assistance.
NetNewsWire for iPhone Customers – a mobile RSS Reader requires synchronization and a new version of NetNewsWire for iPhone that supports synchronization with Google Reader will be available soon. We will notify you when it is available so that you can download the latest version of NetNewsWire and sign-up for a Google Reader account prior to August 31, 2009.
NewsGator Inbox – we will no longer support NewsGator Inbox nor release new versions of the product. You may, however, continue to use your current version (synchronization won’t be supported after August 31, 2009). Please refer to our transition instructions for assistance.
NewsGator Online – NewsGator Online will not be available after August 31, 2009. Please transition to Google Reader by August 31, 2009. Please refer to our transition instructions for assistance.
NewsGator Go! – NewsGator Go! will not be available after August 31, 2009. Please transition to a new mobile RSS Reader by August 31, 2009. We have included alternate RSS Reader recommendations in the transition instructions on our website.
NewsGator’s Shared Clipping Feed – this feature will not be available after August 31, 2009. Google Reader will now provide you with this capability. Please see our FAQs for more information.
Blogroll, Ratings and/or Headlines – these services will not be available after August 31, 2009. Please remove these components from any blog or web site. Please see our FAQs for more information.
Browser Toolbar or the Desktop Notifier – these features will not work after August 31, 2009, nor will we offer new versions of these features. Please see our FAQs for more information.
Bottom line for you: We keep improving our FeedDemon and NetNewsWire applications, and you now can sync with and use the web based RSS reader you’ve been asking for. We’ve been working with the Google team to make these changes as smooth as possible, and they are thrilled to welcome all NewsGator users to the Reader family.

For more information, check out our blog or Google’s blog.

Sincerely,

Greg Reinacker
CTO & Founder
NewsGator Technologies

Positv zu vermerken bleibt also, dass ein Web Reader (in Form des Google Readers), Feed Demon für PC / Windows sowie NetNewsWire für den Mac und das iPhone als Freeware erhalten bleiben. Die anderen Mobile Geräte müssen wohl vorerst mit der Mobile Version des Google Reader vorlieb nehmen.

Eine Anleitung zum Transfer der eignene Feeds auf den Google Reader findet man hier:

NewsGator – Google Feed Reader Transfer

Mehr zu dem Thema auch auf dem NewsGator Blog und dem Google Blog.

NewsGator wird Google Reader is a post from: emendatio Produktivitäts Blog

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I truely hope everybody knows what a rss feed is but after a conversation at work… well here!

If you work on different devices, e.g. private, work, phone and like to read your rss feeds on each of them you are maybe facing the same problem as I did. It is totally anoying to read like 50 feeds on one device and find them unread when you switch to another.

For mails the IMAP concept works quiet perfect. A similar concept for rss is realized through NewsGator.

NewsGator is a web-based RSS account with clients for Mac OSX, Windows, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and other smartphones supporting Java.  As I use a mac at home, a pc at work and an iPhone this was exactly what I was looking for.

NewsGator syncs your rss feed through the web-based account so that you have the same feeds on every device and if you have read your news they are marked as read on every other device after a quick sync.

I am using the combination NetNewsWire for Mac

NetNewsWire for iPhone

and as I was facing some Outlook crashes  with NeswGator Inbox

I am now using Feed Demon on my PC at work.

Another possibility is to use the NesGator web-interface called NewsGator Online

Screenshots taken from NewsGator.

sync your life: rss is a post from: emendatio Produktivitäts Blog

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