KBnow and aggregation

["seanno" <seanno@yahoo.com>]

Hello ---

We just released two new syndication-related features for our 
knowledgebase server KBnow (http://www.kbnow.com), and I was hoping 
to get some feedback from the folks on the list (and of course toot 
our horn a bit).

First, we're now able to monitor RSS/RDF feeds and aggregate the 
content into the corporate knowledgebase. The behavior is rather 
similar to standard aggregation apps, except that we transform the 
items into html and full-text index them. Obviously it works best 
with feeds that include complete article text in the <description> 
tag, but it's useful for abstracts as well.

The second thing we've done is enable filtering of inbound items, so 
on a per-feed basis you can only index articles that are of interest 
to your installation in particular. 

The server runs on Linux and Windows (NT-class machines, not 98), and 
the configuration is xml-based; there's not a lot of UI for 
administration. 

Anyways, I'd love for folks on the list to take a look and let me 
know (1) what you think of the functionality, and (2) how well we did 
in parsing all the freaking flavors of rss/rdf out there. We're 
focused on the US Corporate market, if that makes any difference.

Take care and thanks for you thoughts...
---S

Sean Nolan
sean@softwarepoetry.com
http://www.softwarepoetry.com