Value Part Deux
I was thinking some more about the post I wrote yesterday on Apple value and it intersected with another observation I made about something completely unrelated. For the last couple of days I have had...
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Branded iPhone Apps From NewsGator
We have experienced a lot of success with our NetNewsWire application on the iPhone, and like all good things in business it lent itself to a series of “what if” discussions internally, the result of...
View ArticleRSS Adoption Rates
What’s holding RSS back, asks Rubel, the answer is simple: R S and S. Nobody outside of a minority group of self-described geeks will use an RSS client or online reader. I know our numbers and I know...
View ArticleReuters and NewsGator Partner on Election Coverage
I was remiss in not writing about another announcement we made yesterday. Reuters and NewsGator have teamed up to offer U.S. election coverage widgets for individuals and publishers. The idea of doing...
View ArticleSocial Software Notes
Two thoughts. We’ve been using Yammer but it’s not clear to me what advantages this has over IM and chatrooms, providing you are already using those behind your firewall (we use Jabber). Having said...
View ArticleNewsGator as the Anti-AP
Considering this latest announcement is an evolution of things we have been working on all year, this is probably a lot less exciting to us than for people hearing it for the first time. But it is...
View ArticleTopStyle Acquired
TopStyle is one of those products that has a small but very committed following. I’m pleased to see that it is going to a good home where the user community will be well served by a lead developer who...
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Advertising in Applications
Few things elicit the visceral reaction that advertising inserted in applications does. Just the mere mention of the word brings out a stream of critics who decry the intrusion that ads impose on...
View ArticleRelated Content Startups Raising Capital
OneSpot is an interesting company and it is good news to read that they have successfully raised $4.2m in capital. There are a bunch of companies in the “related content” space and what is interesting...
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Jive SBS Launches
I spoke with Sam Lawrence at Jive about their new Social Business Software (SBS) product and came away impressed on two fronts, the first being that the product is wicked cool and perhaps more...
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