NewsGator Online Edition is now a free feature for basic features: NewsGator Web Edition and subscription synchronization. New features include: Per-post rating system. Rate each post from one to five stars. Feed recommendation for paid subscription levels. E-mail feeds. I signed up for a free NewsGator Web Edition account. The service competes with Bloglines and offers cosmos data similar to Technorati. The press release mentions the ability for users to “add the rating feature seamlessly to their own blog site” but I cannot find the code anywhere….
Category Archives: Software
Six Apart featured in Wall Street Journal
Six Apart was featured on the front page of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal business section. The title of the article is “Folksy No More, Blogger Firm Taps Big Clients.” Pretty cool to have your own personal WSJ sketch. Yes, the Wall Street Journal’s site is available to subscribers only, so I will summarize some of the new information from the article. According to Technorati Six Apart is the third most widely used weblogging software behind Blogger and LiveJournal. Six Apart counters by noting that it has a large deployment behind corporate firewalls. Corporate customers account for about 35% of Six…
Jay Allen joins Six Apart
Jay Allen is moving from Hungary to California to work for Six Apart. Jay is best known for his work on MT-Blacklist. His code is included in the Movable Type search functions as well I believe. Good to see this happen! I am pretty sure Six Apart has been working on hiring Jay for months. It only took $10 million to seal the deal!…
August Capital invests in Six Apart
Om Malik reports that August Capital is about to invest over $5 million in Six Apart. Update: Mena adds some detail. Business Wire has the press release….
Rojo online aggregator
I have been playing around with Rojo, a new Web-based aggregator from Rojo Networks. Rojo adds social networking features to the feed aggregator space. Define your friends, see what feeds they are subscribed to, and what items of interest they have flagged. They have a strong team with a lot of background in open standards and rich applications. Right now Rojo is available by invitation only and new members can invite 5 other members. I already sent out my invites, but Kevin Burton will set you up if you join #rojo on irc.freenode.net. Rojo currently indexes 700,000 weblogs and makes…
Rojo beta launches
Rojo unveiled its next-generation Web-based feed aggregator to an invitation only list. Chris Alden is excited. Rojo has already indexed over 700,000 feeds, some able to be sorted by topic and popularity. A recommendation engine is built-in. Friends and colleagues can connect to each other within Rojo and flag stories for each other and share what feeds they are reading. Rojo Networks also has some P2P talent in Brad Neuberg and it will be interesting to see how that technology could be utilized given Rojo’s Web interface….
Evan Williams leaving Google
Evan Williams is leaving Google. Evan is the founder of Pyra Labs and creator of Blogger, which was sold to Google in 2003. Whatever Evan ends up doing it should be interesting. Good luck! I have enjoyed your pictures lately and I intend to stay tuned in many formats….
XSS vulnerabilities in WordPress 1.2 Mingus
Thomas Waldegger discovered a pretty serious cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress. Dougal Campbell notes that WordPress developers are aware of the issue and working on a 1.2.1 release to help solve the problem. Secunia has issued an advisory (level 2 of 5) for all versions of WordPress. Be aware and ready to apply the new code!…
Sort help for feed aggregators
As our lists of feeds grow it becomes more difficult to sort through the clutter that greets us as we fire up our news aggregators. The list of publishers of supported feeds continues to grow, as does the appetite for consumption. The next important step in the feed aggregation space will be how you tame the data available within the application. I propose sorting services that would allow developers to offer their own reclassification of a list of feeds or their content. Pass a list of feeds in OPML and a web service will return the same OPML with an…
NewsGator partners with Six Apart
NewsGator Technologies announced a co-marketing relationship with Six Apart yesterday. NewsGator will resell Movable Type and Six Apart will resell NewsGator for Outlook to its corporate customers. The two companies are also planning joint development work. NewsGator will release a plugin in the next week that lets NewsGator for Outlook users post to Movable Type and TypePad. From the NewsGator press release: NewsGator and Six Apart, the leading provider of weblog publishing software, announced a co-marketing relationship focused on enterprise sales of the two companies’ leading technology platforms. NewsGator also announced that it will be releasing new plug-ins and other…