[Web4lib] Software to run an "internal" bloglines-like service?

[Bobb Menk]

Back in the summer I asked for advice on products that would let me run 
a bloglines like service internally.

I don't have anything quite that full-featured to report, but I have 
made some progress.

I've installed a product called News2web from a British company called 
Hexamail at http://www.hexamail.com/news2web/

What I liked was the ability to include any old feed and create output 
in the form of an html page, another RSS feed, or a direct email.

Initially it couldn't handle a proxy, but they were willing to write a 
proxy toggle switch for me to test and which they're including in an 
upcoming release (it may even be in the current one I'm not sure).

So now I have a tool that let's me mix and match internally-produced RSS 
with external feeds, do rudimentary keyword searching against any 
combination of all available feeds, and output that result as a web page 
(for including in other web pages e.g.) or as a new RSS feed to be used 
elsewhere as needed, or as a direct email producer.

The price with an edu discount was about $225.

They were among the most helpful support team I've come across - they 
did an amazing amount to make it do what I wanted while I was still just 
running the 15-day demo.

It comes as a server-side app that is available in Linux or Windows. The 
admin gui however is a windows-only client. Which is all fine for me. I 
run the windows version on a server which I administer remotely using 
the windows gui as installed on my desktop...

Thought others may be interested in this kind of tool for managing and 
manipulating feeds.

Bobb Menk
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Library
bmenk at ll.mit.edu