Socialtext’s Adnina Levin links to a great common sense piece by Paolo Valdemarin about Intranet Aggregators, which says
“I spent most of the week visiting small and large companies. The more I talk with “real people working in real companies” (meaning: not nerds spending their whole days hacking), the more convinced I am that a news aggregator is the ideal center for any Intranet
The basic idea is merge to the same server contents coming from
* internal sources (accounting, trouble ticketing, exiting document management applications, other data bases: we should be able to get a feed from any internal app) * k-logs (every member of the group has one) * external news sources (general news, weblogs, specialized sources, scraped pages) “Don’t you just love it when somebody writes about something you are already in the process of building ?