Attensa getting my attention

by on July 16, 2006

I’m downloading and installing Attensa right now. Why? Cause Attensa’s CEO is getting involved in the conversation about news readers.

  • Christopher Coulter
    Funny how "getting involved in the conversation" translates to referencing Dave and Scoble.
  • Just downloaded it.
    Nice interface
  • Christopher, that's what I've been saying all along. There are some people making the "blogosphere" very exclusionary (hmm, just like the "old" media) based on their approval/disapproval of who is in the conversation and who isn't.

    I think bloggers take themselves way too seriously. You aren't curing cancer or ending wars with your blogs. You aren't even really doing anything other than being a slightly more interactive columnist.
  • Rob M
    It's funny, really. I first heard about Attensa back during the 0.x beta phase (it was mentioned over on InsideMicrosoft, I believe). I became an ardent supporter and fan...until two things happened:

    - Vista on my laptop (my desktop already ran it, but I only check my email on my laptop)
    - Outlook 2007

    The concept behind Attensa was sound, but it wasn't working right for a few dozen feeds, and Vista with OL2007.

    I don't use Outlook's RSS support either now however, Flock does it all for me, lightweight and great.
  • Yeah I'm giving Attensa a go too ... what did it? The e-mail to the Gnomedex list to try it out. Okay and if you offer some good tips you might get a free copy.

    Regardless I'm also really enjoying it and it seems to be helping me pour through feeds faster.
  • Several things...First the 1.5 is public beta, but it is a BETA. Second, "the river" is a very important for vehicle for our attention technology and the "predictive ranking" is only the surface. Article level (as opposed to "feed-level") prioritization and recommendation are coming. Thirdly, this version supports syncing with vista and IE7, and is FAST and light. Lastly, and we're not sure yet what the final feature set will be with Outlook's 2007, but whatever it is we will "extend and embrace" with our attentionstream technology. In the long run Attensa is all about the value-add and mitigating information overload...the consumer RSS reader is already a commodity.

    P.S. Thanks for taking another look at Attensa!
  • Personally, I was disappointed with it. I found the interface clunky, and it didn't make my RSS reading any easier than a bloglines/feedburner...
    http://www.dead20.com/2006/06/20/attensa-lousy-...
  • Hi Robert - it's worth your reader's time to look at Attensa again... my favorite thing about Attensa's managed enterprise RSS toolkit today? The social networking elements they've built right in - synchronizing tags with my del.icio.us account, and the capability to post responses to persisitent search blog discoveries like this, from within my Attensa application... great productivity enhancers... (I'm biased, they're a client of mine).

    The developers (Eric and team) over at Attensa pay attention to the smallest detail from a UI perspective - that's something Crag Barnes always brought to the party - and it lives on beyond him.
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