{"id":8798,"date":"2014-05-12T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8798"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:13:51","slug":"what-happened-at-newsgator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/what-happened-at-newsgator\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened at NewsGator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2014\/05\/10\/what_happened_at_newsgator\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2014\/05\/10\/what_happened_at_newsgator\">\n<p>Somewhere along the way the decision was made to shut down the consumer browser-based app and the syncing platform.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Last things to note: even Google Reader is gone. And AllThingsDigital.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2013\/03\/14\/why_i_love_rss_and_you_do_too\">RSS is alive and well<\/a> (from 2013), as always.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/2014\/05\/11\/#a1399816729\">Dave Winer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/2014\/05\/11\/#a1399816729\"><p>I always wondered what the VCs were thinking. They had a chance to work with the guy who was driving adoption, who had the relationships with the publishers, and had a roadmap already worked out. Instead they went with a nice guy who thought RSS was email.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons: Somewhere along the way the decision was made to shut down the consumer browser-based app and the syncing platform. [&#8230;] Last things to note: even Google Reader is gone. And AllThingsDigital. Meanwhile, RSS is alive and well (from 2013), as always. Dave Winer: I always wondered what the VCs were thinking. They had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,295,30,32,392,879,52,1451],"class_list":["post-8798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-netnewswire","tag-newsgator","tag-rss","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16747,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions\/16747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}