NewsGator Remains Stagant, Irresponsible

NewsGator Technologies Inc. Completes Third Round of Funding.
Congratulations, Greg… now fix your sh*t. :) I had an IM exchange with you the other week, and you've assured me that development is marching forward – yet I still see none. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough when I told you I wanted to beta test the new version, as I have for every incremental build in the past.
I stand by my opinion that NewsGator is acting irresponsible. Instead of your desktop clients hitting a single NewsGator server for feed updates, each client hits each feed during each update. That's a colossal waste of bandwidth! Not only do you have to fix outstanding bugs that haven't been addressed for well over a YEAR, you have to play catch up with the rest of the aggregator world…

The next version of NewsGator Outlook edition will go into beta testing sometime next week, and we're soliciting folks who would like to help with the beta program. I can't yet post the complete feature list, but it's mostly about synchronization. If you think back to all of the comments that have been made over the last year about NewsGator's sync system (doesn't sync read/unread status to Outlook, stuff deleted online after I download, etc.), they've all been addressed.

Could be too little, too late. There's already intraVnews (free for personal use) and You Subscribe (free beta). I'll bet that the Outlook team is gonna shut you out of their market soon, so… get crackin', d00d. The aggregator is a commodity on the desktop – you'd be smart to chase after licenses with organizations, not individuals.

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