NewsGator acquired FeedDemon, TopStyle and NickBradbury - what does that mean for us FeedDemon customers? Says Nick:
NewsGator uses a subscription model, and FeedDemon will become part of their subscription plans. All existing FeedDemon customers will get a two-year business standard subscription for free - and this includes upgrades to FeedDemon.
Business Standard is the entry plan covering basic features. Notice that features like saved keyword searches and others that are default in FeedDemon require more expensive plans and come with ridiculously low limits in NewsGator. Read, FeedDemon upgrades remain free for the next two years and you also get a NewsGator preview.
Obviously, FeedDemon as a desktop app is the missing link in Newsgator's read-and-sync-anywhere strategy:
FeedDemon will integrate very closely with NewsGator's online synchronization platform, enabling using FeedDemon on multiple computers while maintaining state between all of them.
And what if you use FeedDemon with Bloglines? Say Nick and Greg:
We're not going to drop FeedDemon's support for Bloglines. [But oviously] future development will concentrate on integration with the NewsGator Online platform.
My impression browsing the NewsGator website: nice idea for business environments, but bloated. If you want smart, fast, free read-nearly-anywhere news aggregation, Bloglines still is the tool of choice.
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