Zesty News Development Resuming!
by Kevin Dangoor
I am very happy to report that development of Zesty News is now restarting. After quite a bit of discussion with different people, followed by a bit of contract hammering, I’ve just signed a contract with Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (ASI) to continue the development of Zesty News. I will continue wearing the product manager, marketing and sales hats. I’ve really enjoyed talking with Ray Cote of ASI these past couple of months, and think they’ll be a great partner on this.
I’m also really excited to have the development pick back up. Even after a few months of stagnation, Zesty News still has unique features and aspects to it, and we’re going to push even further on those in the coming months as we see the product through to completion.
Hey, great news. It’ll be fun to finally see a fully working copy. I actually think your timing might be better now anyway. There hasn’t been much new work in that area in a few years so you could get a lot more press than you would have before.
“There hasn’t been much new work in that area in a few years so you could get a lot more press than you would have before.”
Err… actually, the news/feed reading space is more crowded than ever… most of the action is happening on the web rather than the desktop, but there’s still been a lot of it. (And Newsgator bought both NetNewsWire and FeedDemon, thus bridging online and desktop worlds.)
There’s plenty of action, but most of what people are doing still feels the same. (Maybe that’s what you meant by “new work”? Lots of work is afoot, but not all of it would be considered “new”)
Hey Kevin, I’m really happy to hear that, this is a great news first of all for yourself and then for TG.
Good Luck!