RSS Tuning with Attensa and Real Time Matrix
Enterprise RSS software company Attensa has announced a partnership with The Real Time Matrix Corp, which develops search and filtering technology. The partnership aims to help enterprise users create focused search channels - essentially topic feeds. Craig Barnes, Attensa CEO, calls this an "RSS Tuner", which is a nice term signifying that they are trying to separate "signal from noise".
Attensa's product range is based on RSS Reader and Feed Server technology. Meanwhile The Real Time Matrix has just released a product called the iJ.am search engine, which they describe as a "Content Router for the Web". It sounds to me a lot like PubSub, which up till its demise last year was the leading RSS keyword filter and delivery service. In the press release, Jeff Whitehead, The Real Time Matrix CEO, is quoted as saying:
"Users simply set up and refine their search criteria and we deliver accurate, relevant and timely results with extreme prejudice."
Indeed Whitehead uses (intentionally or not) a phrase close to PubSub's former 'future search' catchphrase. Whitehead says that Attensa and Real Time Matrix will make it possible to "search the past and filter the future".
Actually, it's probably closer to enterprise solutions like Moreover, which provide RSS filtering solutions to businesses. Scott Niesen has more information on the Attensa blog.
There's certainly more room for RSS aggregation and filtering technology in the enterprise. Attensa, KnowNow, Newsgator and others are all active in this space - so it's quite an open market. If you know of other such enterprise products out there, let us know in the comments.
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Hello Richard,
Happy New (Zealand) Year! To add a piece to your post and if you recall, we at Blastfeed can aggregate and filter feeds at the server level. We can then push results via our notification engine (email, RSS, etc.) to any application, either for a user to read or for an action to be triggered . We can filter and search content in a very granular way since feeds are stored natively as an XML structure. Part of what we want to do revolves around the fact we can install and deploy our solution in an enterprise. So far it is being tested by a (very) large bank in the UK.
Patrick.
Don't forget that Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft all offer some form of asynchronously delivered alerts concerning new content published either on the web or in blogs.
bob wyman
A growing number of enterprises are using the free technology available at The Personal Bee http://www.personalbee.com to create feed clusters (we call them Beehives) and use our patent pending topic analysis technology to determine the buzziest articles and emergent news trends.
We've just launched another way to look at this trend analysis:
http://www.top5stories.com