Branded RSS Reader (from: Steve Yelvington)
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=77942 | Comments
The Guardian has launched a branded RSS reader called NewsPoint in conjunction with Consenda, a software company based in the United States and Switzerland. The Windows XP application requires a username and password — separate from the Guardian’s somewhat disjointed registration system — and comes preloaded with Guardian RSS news and advertising feeds. NewsPoint is still “beta software” and has a few bugs, including some HTML entity parsing problems. It claims to interact “with an ordinary Web browser,” but ignored my Firefox preference and instead launched Internet Explorer, which many of us avoid for (…)