Stream of News – NewsGator Style
October 17th, 2006
Dave Winer has recently gained much attention over his River of News mobile reader, and this is certainly a good move for mobile and RSS. Here is a screenshot of the BBC’s River courtesy of Dave’s service. Very nice!
 
A River of News may not be the ticket for me and others for differing reasons… I prefer a richer experience and a more structured view of my feeds. But the River of News does have its place and folks are asking for this feature. In the next version of NewsGator Go!, I will be incorporating this concept with a slightly different spin… I call it a Stream of News.
I can let the river flow for all my news by selecting the root folder and opening up the fire hose, see below…
Or I can just flow the news at the folder level and read just a tributary of the river… ie, the stream. And of course, marking articles read synchronizes the article with all NewsGator products. I can also chose to remove the articles from the list as they are read (my preference) w/o post backs. Here is what the Stream of News looks like on NewsGator Go!
I hope this helps and improves the NewsGator Go! experience!
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