USA.gov Unveils Breaking-News & Information Feeds on NewsGator RSS Platform

By Melissa Risteff, January 23, 2009

The Federal government today announced the availability of NewsGator-powered RSS breaking news and information feeds on their USA.gov website -- the government's official online portal.  The new service (http://news.usa.gov), lets anyone subscribe to RSS feeds on USA.gov, allowing them to receive pertinent news and information through their feed readers.

The USA.gov site offers the following RSS feed categories: Agriculture, Business & Economics, Consumer News & Recalls, Defense & International, Education & Employment, General Gov & Reference, Environment & Energy, Family, Home & Community, Health & Nutrition, Public Safety & Law and Science & Technology.

By turning to NewsGator, USA.gov can now leverage the technology, infrastructure, and people behind the world's most popular RSS readers for Windows, Web and Mac; this includes NewsGator's NetNewsWire feed reader, which is one of TIME Magazine's top 10 iPhone Apps for 2008.

As Walker Fenton, GM of NewsGator's Media & Consumer division explains, "NewsGator pioneered commercial RSS and today we have the only proven scalable RSS infrastructure for delivering the steep mandate for open government access that the Federal government is committed to delivering."  He adds, "the Federal government is awash in content and it is an exciting challenge to help streamline access to this information.  It is also an honor to be selected to help to inform the citizenry; there are few responsibilities more important."

You may view the press release here.

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Melissa Risteff

Melissa Risteff , Senior Vice President, Enterprise Engagment

Melissa Risteff is the SVP of Enterprise Engagement at NewsGator. She’s responsible for the adoption consultancy practice, partner competency and enablement program, and social business solution delivery – each having a major impact on aligning to customer business value and ultimately making social real. Melissa previously served as CMO of a collaborative analytics software firm, VP of Product for an eLearning company, and has held senior level strategy and product management roles at both Sun Microsystems and GE. She is a thought leader in the space – with advanced graduate research following her passion in social technologies and organizational development. Born in NY and raised in VT, Melissa moved to CO in ‘92 and stayed for the weather and lifestyle. She has an affinity for gastronomy, wanderlust, and hiking.

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