The big cahuna jumps into RSS
Something that hasn't been much commented on in the MS RSS announcements - just how much MS' entry is going to affect the (RSS) tools space. The addition of RSS reading to IE is going to expand the space tremendously, of course - but notice the Outlook RSS capability Scoble mentions? That's going to impact the NewsGator folks quite a bit. Sure, they still have the server side - but I suspect that, over time, their client will end up being a value-added version of whatever MS does. Either way, this entry is going to start consolidating the field of aggregators.
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[Gordon Weakliem] September 18, 2005 23:46:24.959
Probably the only thing I can safely say is that RSS in Outlook has been a foregone conclusion for a couple years now. Actually, since Greg released NG 1.0. On the other hand, when you look at the spam filtering built into OL, I guarantee that SpamBayes would still be a huge commercial success if the authors had chosen to go that route.