I've been using the new beta of NetNewsWire for a few weeks now and haven't discovered a single issue. As many others have noted there is a significant speed increase which helps when you refresh 500+ feeds. So far the syncing with NewsGator Online is awesome (granted the first sync took some time).

In other 'NewsGator News', the company has restructured their pricing and product offerings. The new model pushes the purchase of their stand-alone readers such as NewsGator Inbox (for Outlook) $29.95, FeedDemon $29.95 and NetNewsWire $19.95. All of these products now offer synchronization with a web-based RSS reader, NewsGator Online.

The biggest change is the simplification of online offerings with NewsGator Online. Previously they sold a number of different levels of online services. Some included synchronization or mobile versions of the reader plus some other 'premium content'. In total I think there were around 6-8 different price points, and it was very confusing since they also offered personal and business flavors as well.

There are now two price points for the online RSS reader: Free and Premium. Free is well you guessed it, free and offers a basic, yet very functional web-based reader that will satisfy most users. The premium version adds a number of features such as mobile readers (Blackberry/Cellphone) and e-mail alerts. The cost for the premium service is $19.95 per year.

I'm signing up for the premium service, you really can't beat a one-time cost of twenty bucks to get a mobile based reader that is synchronized with all your other RSS readers. It is ironic though that they display a 'box' for the online service :-)