The main surprise to me, though, was this particular announcement:

P.S. It's a free upgrade. In fact, existing NetNewsWire users will get two years of free upgrades plus a free subscription to NewsGator.

Whow. Another OS X developer being crazy friendly with his users -- it's something in the water I tell you, next thing you know Apple will hand out MacBook Pros for free.

So what's Bradbury up to?

And as long as I'm talking about aggregator developers, I have to admit I'm more and more curious about what Nick Bradbury is doing -- he not only seems to be on the forefront on a lot of interesting developments these days, with FeedDemon arguably now being a generation ahead of NNW, and all the attention metadata discussions he's been leading; but he's also bookmarking interesting stuff.

I first found his del.icio.us account when I saw that he was one of two people bookmarking my "Revisiting Aggregators I" article (see bookmarks); and a couple of minutes ago I found that he also bookmarked Niall Kennedy's "Automatic favorites import using browser history" (see bookmarks), an exciting method of tracking user attention after the fact using only JavaScript, XMLHttpRequests and a couple of links.

Oblig. pop

Oh, and since about Tuesday I'm reading up on the wisdom of MC Hammer.