Big day for RSS on Windows

Talk about a one-two punch. NewsGator launched new versions of both their Outlook add-in, now called NewsGator Inbox, and FeedDemon, a desktop RSS client. The company has also completely redesigned their pricing to address customer concerns about the subscription model they adopted in the previous release. NewsGator founder Greg Reinacker, announcing the new releases on his blog yesterday wrote:

“And finally, as of these releases we’ve made good on our promise to abolish the subscription model as you used to know it. Now, you can buy FeedDemon or NewsGator Inbox (and soon NetNewsWire) for $29.95, and you’ll get a free year subscription which includes value-added services such as synchronization (and lots more to come). At the end of that year, you can choose to renew your subscription if you wish for $19.95. But if you choose not to renew, your software will continue to work forever – just without the online-specific features.”

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Adidas +10

Martin has been helping out with the new Adidas campaign and pointed me to a mini site he’s been seeding. The site, dedicated to football is also about the release of the new Predator Absolute shoe. A Flash animation takes you on a tour through the features of the shoe (I never knew there were so many parts in a football shoe!) and after the tour, you’re invited to reassemble the shoe against the clock yourself.

Other sections of this branded site are the ‘players’ which features 5 screens where in every screen a part of the powers of the player is revealed and illustrated in an original way.

The ‘TV room’ features commercials, player interviews and behind the scenes edits. It’s pretty fun the see, so you’ll definitely have to check this section. There are 7 commercials. All of them are funny. Concept: twelve international players go through the streets of their cities looking for a dream team to compete against.
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Carnival of the Capitalists at Decker Marketing

This week sees a marketing approach to the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists makes a visit to Sam Decker’s (pictured below left) high quality business and marketing blog known as Decker Marketing.This week’s edition of Carnival of the Capitalists highlights some of the best bloggers writing on the internet today. Blogging topics presented include entrepreneurship, management, market trading, internet commerce, marketing, the national and global economies, and technology.

As you would expect from Decker Marketing, there are many discussions of business, marketing, and leadership. It’s always great to read and discover the many high quality blogs out there in the blogosphere.

We don’t always get to them all, and this edition of Carnival of the Capitalists has introduced many of us to some brand new ones. I have an entry in this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists as well.

My post is titled “Visitor traffic logs: Put them to work for you” where I discuss how visitor logs provide useful information on the activities of your visitors that can helpful in adding fresh content to your site and in improving conversion rates from tire kicker to customer status.

If you wish to submit an entry to next week’s, or any Carnival of the Capitalists edition, e-mail your entries to the new address:

cotcmail -at- gmail -dot- com

You can always use the handy entry form at Gongol.com where all you have to do is fill in the blanks. Talk about making it easy to be included!

Another brand new form for sending entries to all of the internet carnvivals is provided by The Conservative Cat. This is a great one stop entry drop, for all your blog post entries, for every blog carnival.

Note as well that Carnival of the Capitalists. has a new URL at http://thecotc.com/. Be sure to update your links and bookmarks.

If you are searching for new and exciting ways to expand your blog’s readership, you should seriously consider sending an entry to Carnival of the Capitalists.

Merely being included in the company, of the first rate regular Carnival of the Capitalists contributors, will enhance the reputation of your blog.

The extra visitors sent to your blog won’t hurt either! The growth and staying power, of Carnival of the Capitalists, is beginning to catch the attention of people outside the blogging community. Each hosting, brings a fresh assortment of new readers, to the various blogs involved. The visitors aren’t only bloggers anymore.

Readership is expanding to include the mainstream media, various government and private organizations, many businesses, and other interested people from beyond the blogging community. Many people are introduced to some tremendous blogs that they might otherwise have missed.

Next week’s Carnival of the Capitalists will be at Rob May’s and Jay Solo’s carnival partner business news blog known as Jotzel. In the meantime, click that mouse over to the Decker Marketing hosting of Carnival of the Capitalists.

If the great posted entries don’t convince you to click, or the possibility of finding some brand new blogs to read doesn’t do it, then Carnival of the Capitalists certainly will offer some ideas to get some software in your hardware. (groan)

Lycos launches VoIP soft-phone

Internet company Lycos, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications of South Korea, has announced the launch of Lycos Phone, a VoIP soft-phone application powered by Globe7.

Lycos now offers a free downloadable white label VoIP platform, in partnership with Globe7. With Lycos Phone, users can make free calls from PC to PC. They can also make free PC to PC video calls and receive unlimited free incoming calls from any landline or mobile phone from around the world. Users also receive 100 free minutes of PC to landline and PC to mobile phone calls and can earn additional free minutes through various promotional offers.

Lycos claims to be the first to introduce a VoIP system with full multimedia support for music and video-on-demand content. The Lycos Phone platform provides free video-on-demand access to more than 300 movie trailers, business news, world sports and other content. Users can access the video or music content without interrupting phone or chat services in the application.

Lycos Phone offers a free US phone number, free fax and free voicemail to e-mail.

Currently, Globe7 supports Windows 2000 and XP systems. Future enhancements will support Linux, Mac OS, Palm OS and Pocket PC.