So Dave Winer says that “RSS is waiting for its killer app.” I have been under the same impression for a while. There are lots of standalone options out there for Windows and Mac, and even online options such as bloglines.
Mozilla has already incorporated RSS into their Thunderbird and Firefox products. Firefox calls them Live Bookmarks, which I personally think is easier to understand by “normal” people than RSS. The next version of Safari is also going to have RSS capabilities built into it.
Lots of people talk about RSS being a big corporate tool. Most corporations use Outlook. Ding-Ding-Ding. Since it will probably take Microsoft about 10 years to include RSS capabilities in their Outlook product, a few third party options have popped up in the meantime.
NewsGator seems to be a popular choice. I think Scoble uses it, or I have at least seen him mention it before. It doesn’t seem to come as a stand alone app. It’s Outlook capabitlity comes as part of a subscription service that starts out around $20 a year.
Other than NewsGator, there are a few applications out there that are supposed to integrate into Outlook (intraVnews, You Perform, etc.), and there has even been talk of the Office team announcing some sort of RSS support for Outlook this year.
Have any FG readers used NewsGator or any of the other third party RSS apps for Outlook? What are your thoughts of RSS integration in Outlook? Will it help bring RSS to the mainstream?
UPDATE: I had mentioned You Perform above as an RSS reader for Outlook. Actually, it is You Subscribe, still made by the same company. I actually installed it and was suprised that it happen to add a button to my IE toolbar that let me subscribe to feeds when they were autodiscovered in a page.
I currently use a combination of Sage and the live bookmark feature in firefox. Is there any advantage to using a mail client like T-bird or Outlook?
Wouldn’t the client have to open the browser to view the content anyway?
To answer your question, yes I think that Outlook integration would be a big boost for RSS. Outlook does one thing right, it lets people easily organise there work time, so any new function in Outlook is going to be used because the users will want to use it.
I have used Newsgator in the past, but have switched to Sage for Firefox.
Newsgator is nice, it looks great! But it really slows Outlook down.
We are still waiting for a good newsfeader reader. I can’t wait to try the new Safari.
> What are your thoughts of RSS integration in Outlook? Will it help bring RSS to the mainstream?
Outlook integration would be cool, but there’s nothing like that little ‘rss’ button in the Opera address bar or in Firefox to make you click.
If IE can have subsciptions popped into outlook, now that would do it. (says me ;-)
Actually Mike, I just downloaded and installed the You Subscribe reader for Outlook. And to my suprise, it actually put a button in my IE toolbar that activated when RSS feeds were autodiscovered on a site. Click the button, and it lets me add the RSS to my outlook reader.
Pretty slick.
I used the live bookmark feature in Firefox at first. Then, when you list grows to about 50 feeds, it gets a little out of hand. Then I switched to a local aggregators Thunderbird (pain in the @$$ to add feeds) and FeedReader and hated them. The problem is having computers at both home and work and going through many of the feeds twice a day. Now, I heart Bloglines!
I have no idea what you just said what is all this?
My favorite reader so far is NewsFire for mac, but I also use Sage for windows.
Once Outlook builds in it’s own support for RSS feeds, I will be happy. As much as my hate for the majority of Microsoft runs ice cold through my veins, I do love Outlook 2003. Not just for mail, hell anything can do mail. But it has managed to intergrate a lot of things that would need me to run more applications, and use more resources.
As far as RSS readers go, my favorite is FeedDemon, but RSS Bandit is an extemely good free choice. I still think Thunderbird’s and Firefox’s implementation of RSS is lackluster, and BlogLines is great at work…but lacks real time updates.
There’s also “RSS Popper” which integrates RSS into Outlook and it’s freeware
As far as RSS readers and Outlook support go, i’m a biased user of Omea Pro (http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/). I work for JetBrains, so feel free to discard my opinion. However, I know that I couldn’t organize my files, feeds, emails, IMs, website favourites, newsgroups, contacts, and tasks in any other environment out there. It also lets me search through all that stuff, and save the searches. Oh, and it opens feeds and sites directly, without opening your IE or firefox (though it supports both). These bloggers aren’t biased, so check them out:
http://www.vasanth.in/PermaLink,guid,f37043e5-b82d-4190-8b5a-9636b62cd0ab.aspx
Erik’s LinkBlog
http://www.thauvin.net/linkblog/?date=2005-03-18#Beat:708
(About Omea Reader – the free little bro to Omea Pro)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/FredOnSomething?m=50
I have been using Outlook Express errors repair tool for the past few months and LOVE it.
I’ve even recommended it to all my friends. Outlook Express more stable and secure than other programs.
“Outlook Express more stable and secure than other programs.”
funniest… post… ever.
Why not try Bloglines.Bloglines is much better than newsgator. You can synchronize bloglines with blogbot for outlook if you want bloglines’s outlook edition. Folder hierarchy is synchronized between Outlook and Online via blogbot. Itâs much better than newsgator between outlook and online.
If you like desktop news client, You can use Greatnews to synchronize bloglines like newsgator using feeddemon. Good news is Greatnews is a wonderful free software but feeddemon isnât.Folder hierarchy is synchronized between Bloglines and Greatnews. Feeddemon doesnât synchronize Folder hierarchy between newsgator online and itself. Greatnews can be found at :http://www.curiostudio.com/
If you like newsgator for outlook, donât worry, blogbot does the same and better job for outlook. blogbot can be found at http://www.blogbot.com/out/.
Even you uses several computer, you wonât read the same news twice. cause itâs synchronized online, at outlook via blogbot, at desktop by greatnews.
check out inclue for outlook. it has one button feed discovery and addition. very clean and simple. http://www.inclue.com
intraVnews, tested and really cool for Outlook.
Do u know some1 like this1 but for Outlook Express?.
Thansk.
http://www.inclue.com now works for outlook and Outlook express also support video and podcasts.