Genecast is a series of products that establish your presence on the web, and keep you informed about someone else's. The Genecast News Service is the first product in the Genecast family.

XML has proven to be an excellent medium for news. It's lean and mean and travels faster. If you like to stay up to date you've probably tested your share of aggregator software, to manage your favorite XML feeds and collect the news. But the news was never THIS good...

Stop downloading those news aggregators! You no longer need to stay connected and chew on the web all day. Chances are you've had the perfect news reader installed all along. From now on, you can read any XML newsfeed from the comfort of a Usenet news reader such as MS Outlook Express. News will pop up in your inbox automatically, instantly.

Genecast News Service is a server based news aggregator, that converts XML streams to Usenet News. Anyone can add a new newsfeed/newsgroup, if it does not already exist. To check it out, set up your Usenet client to freenews.genecast.com -- it is open for anonymous access.

Due to a serious hardware crash Genecast is now running on a new server. Apologies for the downtime.

A special welcome to the readers of deflexion.com. You're right on time to profit from the new, reduced subscription price.

Due to a network migration at our service provider, Genecast will move to a new IP address range. Genecast services will be available at both address ranges until DNS changes have fully propagated.

If all goes well, this means that Genecast will experience no downtime, except for a single server reboot at tuesday Februari 1st 2005, 19:30 UTC. Other than this, the transition should not be noticable to end-users.

The Genecast .NET generation is nearing completion. The high-end solution consists of no less than four Windows services, a desktop application and an ASP.NET web application. It's all you need to blog happily ever after.

Meanwhile, the Genecast News Service and the site are expanding to support the new product series. Just added a page that lists version history and update information.

It's been awfully quiet here at the front-end, but don't worry. The puppy has migrated. The first native .NET Genecast application is a fact. It will be available as a beta download in several weeks.

Several days after the introduction, the Genecast News Service is aggregating plenty of news about the Genecast News Service. Russell Beattie thinks it's "REALLY FREAKIN COOL!", MacMegasite throws in a OS X screenshot, and Dave Winer mentions it, but probably didn't check it out. Otherwise, I'm sure he would have mentioned the OPML support.

The final payment processing tests have been completed successfully. Payments with credit card, in three currencies, are now possible through PaySystems and PayPal. User accounts are created and activated automatically, within minutes after registering.

As of now, the Genecast News Service is officially live! As an introduction offer, you can get a six month subscription for only USD/EUR 18.

Just released the beta version of the Genecast News Service, and a whopping 14 new pages for the site. Most are for management purposes, but there's enough in the open to get noticed. Attempting stealth mode until the shop and the service are ready to market -- somewhere during the first weeks of november.

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