corigin.com

There’s a boring press release; and interesting write-ups from
Greg
Reinacker and
Brent Simmons.
(Oh, and why is it we need press releases any more?)
This is interesting on a bunch of grounds.

Why a Newsreading Client?

There are those, hardwired to Google Reader or some such, who genuinely
don’t understand why someone would use client software at all. Google Reader
is just fine, but I still haven’t seen anything that gets me the news anywhere
near as fast or as flexibly as NetNewsWire. Well, and it makes offline catch-up
very easy, but mostly it’s just about the speed. If you’ve got a job where
you need to soak up a big news-flow without wasting much time, and you’re on a
Mac, you really ought to give NNW a try.

Business Model

Why would you give away popular
software?
Quoting Greg Reinacker: “What we’re working to do is to saturate the market
with our clients.” Which makes excellent sense; because they’re really in the
server/service business.

Plus, they think they can do something interesting with attention data.
Not the first time I’ve heard that, and it’s sure plausible, although I’m not
sure anyone’s actually making much hay with it just yet.

But hey, thanks guys.

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