Goodbye, FeedLounge; Hello, Newsgator

I’ll write more about why I, the first release honoree of FeedLounge, am leaving the FeedLounge service behind, but this post primarily notes that I’ve moved to a client-side-married-to-a-server solution: NewsGator’s offerings are my new feed-reading home.

Leave all the questions that I’m sure you’ll have in the comments. I’ll answer at-length soon. But in short, enough has proven to be enough.

Posted November 26th, 2006 in FeedLounge, Software. Tagged: .

5 comments:

  1. Chris Hubbs:

    Sorry to hear it came to that. So it sounds like you’re using NewsGator’s NNW application and then their premium web service to keep it synced up with the online reader? I’ll be interested to hear how that works.

    I am happy with Google Reader, but I’m still such a sucker for new stuff… :sigh:

  2. Geof F. Morris:

    That’s indeed what I’m doing, Chris.

    It’s another one-year stop-gap if nothing else. I gave FL a year; it didn’t work. I’ll give NNW/NG/FD a year.

  3. Geof F. Morris's Indiana Jones School of Management:

    Whittling…

    I still feel like a big sack of crap—to the point that I came home from work early today because I was dizzy and didn’t want to drive home in traffic—but I got everything done that I needed to get done. I did get the nice ego boost o…

  4. Chris:

    +1 FL Cancelations

    Another period of no updates and old, read items reappearing. It was worth $5/month when it worked correctly, but I’m not going to continue paying for something that repeatidly does not work. There are free services out there that’ll do that for me.

  5. Geof F. Morris:

    Indeed, Chris.

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