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...product--and news aggregators in general--to a new level. While it still works in Microsoft Outlook as it did in version 1 .x, 2.0 also works in any POP3 email client--via a Web interface, or from a wireless PDA or cell phone--using an underlying synchronization engine to manage subscriptions. This flexibility should appeal to busy business users and could help propel RSS into the mainstream.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and its cousin Atom, a competing standard, sit poised on the edge of entering the mainstream. And NewsGator 2.0 has the potential to bring RSS and news aggregation software to the masses by offering a tool that's easy to use and provides a way to get information wherever you are from any device. News aggregation software reads and displays content delivered in the form of an RSS or Atom feed (XML-based standards for content syndication). A news aggregator has the potential to bring any news you want (provided they offer the given feed) to your desktop, providing a powerful information management tool that can bypass the increasingly crowded and annoying email channel.

What made NewsGator 1.x unique was that it worked within Microsoft Outlook, a tool many business people were using anyway, and allowed users to take...

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