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by Brad Wilson.
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It went without much fanfare that I switched my aggregator to NewsGator a while ago. A big part of the reason that it went without much fanfare is because it was NewsGator 2.0 which primarily motivated me to make this switch, rather than 1.x. Until today, I wasn't allowed to publicly speak about what 2.0 means.
The NewsGator client has undergone some significant improvements. There are bug fixes, performance enhancements, and new features. The big news, though, is NewsGator Online Services. With 2.0, NewsGator has made a pretty significant leap-frog over its competitors.
The big feature of Online Services is Global Subscriptions. When you sign up for Online Services, your subscription list is sent up to NewsGator's servers. However, the big differentiator is that the list of posts you've read is also sent up and stored.
This yields a lot of great features that nobody else has:
NewsGator synchronization. If you use NewsGator in two places, such as at work and at home, your subscriptions will stay in sync. More importantly, the list of what you've read stays in sync; if you read it at work, it won't show up again at home.
Web edition. On the road, and don't have access to Outlook? No problem. Web edition is there so you can read what's new, and when you get back to your PC, you don't have to double-read.
POP edition. If you have access to a POP3 mail reader, you can get your news through POP3.
Mobile edition. You can also read your news via a mobile browser, such as those in a pocket PC or a cell phone. Again, global subscriptions means that your read/not-read lists are always kept in sync.
NewsGator has also added Premium Content, not available anywhere else.
Finally, for bloggers, you can have NewsGator Online Services expose your subscription list as OPML. This means you can have a low- to zero-maintenance way to publish a blogroll on your blog.
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