NewsGator updates popular RSS Readers, makes them free!

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NewsGator updates popular RSS Readers, makes them free!

by Jason Harris Jan 9th 2008

NewsGator, the Denver based company behind ever-popular RSS readers such as NetNewsWire for Mac and FeedDemon for Windows, announced updates for these award-winning products. The full list of the updated products include FeedDemon 2.6 (for Windows), NetNewsWire 3.1 (for the Mac), NewsGator Go! (for mobile platforms), and Inbox (a Microsoft Outlook plug-in). According to NewsGator, users will see improvements in peformance, usability, and relavance improvements.

The second part of NewsGator's announcment is the most exciting - all these products are available for free! Yes, you read that correctly - start downloading away.

NewsGator products' built-in selling point their ability to sync with Newsgator's internet based servers. That is, if you use NetNewsWire at home and FeedDemon at work, you won't have duplicate items to read between the two applications.

Why did NewsGator set these products free? They are obviously shifting gears add corporate resources to monetize their Enterprise offerings such as the NewsGator Enterprise Server. NewsGator wants to take the success they've enjoyed in the consumer market and apply it to the Enterprise environment.

Tags: feeddemon, microsoft outlook, MicrosoftOutlook, netnewswire, newsgator, rss

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bob said 5:14PM on 1-09-2008

I'm guessing that they made it free because everything from browsers to email clients to web2.0 sites have built-in RSS readers now. The vast majority of users just aren't going to pony up the cash for an RSS reader no matter how fancy it is. It's hard to make money from a commodity that's available for free from lots of different sources. The only way they're going to survive as a business is to convince enterprises to pay for their server software. Wish them the best of luck.

EduardoE said 10:20PM on 1-09-2008

This is a great day :D

Russel Ridick said 4:26PM on 1-13-2008

I can't imagine why I should use it, when there are so many much cooler clients like google reader or the new mindity (www.mindity.com)
greetings

DagMX said 8:25AM on 1-10-2008

I saw this same comment on another apple blog regarding the same thing.
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