I've been using our new Attensa Feed Server, the server designed to dish out custom-packaged business web feeds, and I have to say I'm pretty excited about the future of this thing.

The user interface is deceptively simple, but the power that's behind it, and what makes it truly exciting, is its ability to package relevant feeds and deliver them to groups of people through a variety of interfaces.... that's not all the power, but that's the part that's captured my attention.

I've been managing a small group of users, and I get to specify one feed I want them to get... the rest of their feed consumption experience is completely under their own control. It's so simple that it took five minutes to learn my way around, a minute to set up my group, and it takes only a few seconds to add a new user each time I get one. It almost runs itself (from an administrator's point of view).

Now, I do have my wish list of features, and they have to do with querying the user database to easily find users and their Attention data. I also want some group management features, because although I manage only one group, others will be managing hundreds of groups and I like to play the "what if I had thousands of users and a hundred groups and was administering them locally on the server (like I am) instead of through active directory" game when I work with my group.

This is new, it's exciting, and features are being added at a fast pace. We're still discovering what they need to be. We're not following anyone, and there are no big road signs saying "follow this well-beaten path to building the ideal corporate feed server!" so we're working with companies who are ready for this technology, and we're building the road.

P.S. My boss did not make me write this, I just had to say something about our feed server!