FeedDemon and NetNewsWire are free from NewsGator

The good folks over at NewsGator have just announced that their really awesome feed readers are now free for personal use. Take a look at the list of products, and you'll see some of the best software that's you can get for feed reading: * FeedDemon for Windows * NetNewsWire for the Mac * NewsGator Go! for Blackberries, Windows Mobile or Java phones * NewsGator Inbox for Outlook And all of these apps sync with NewsGator's online feed-reading service. What's cool is that we've known the developers of each of these client applications from the days when, like Movable Type, their apps were made as a labor of love for geeks and serious bloggers. And just like we have at Six Apart, they've grown into a lot of different markets with different products, learning a lot along the way. So it's a smart next step -- they are making their personal products free to focus on business and enterprise users who want to pay for more advanced features. Sound familiar? That's the same path we went on with Movable Type, making MT free for personal use, with paid users getting more help or features, and enterprise users getting lots of powerful features that make sense for that audience. Plus, once you get hooked on these kinds of tools at home, it's easy to recommend using them at work. We're glad to see a fellow old-school social media company going down a similar path to the one we've followed, and we're excited to grab some of our favorite apps for free. To find out more about the announcement, check out the official word on NewsGator's TypePad-powered blog.