BlogBridge’s Feed Library (BBL) is a software product that we announced on June 8th. 

“BlogBridge’s Feed Library (BBL) creates a flexible web based structure to showcase Feeds, Reading Lists and Podcasts to employees in your company, or members of your organization. It will be the ’store’ where users can browse and search for recommendations of content to read with their Aggregators. And, here’s the important point: these are recommendations by people in your organization for people in your organization.” (from BlogBridge’s Feed Library announcement)

Let’s take a look at the major features of BBL. As you can see there are many interesting capabilities, all of which will be available in the first release. And we have even more coolness in the plan.

• Categories and subcategories - All the feeds, reading lists and podcasts are organized in a fully customizable multi-level category structure. Each category can have a distinct owner to whom control has been delegated by the librarian.
• Cross Listing - As not everything wants to fit in a hierarchy, any category can be cross listed elsewhere in the library in one or more other categories.
• Built in announcements blog with rss feed - As we hope a customer’s Feed Library will be an active and dynamic place, we have provided a blog where the librarians can post announcements and other information for the visitors.
• All categories and subcategories available as OPML Reading Lists - OPML is generated dynamically to allow any capable aggregator to subscribe to all the feeds in a certain category and stay up to date with any changes made there by the librarian.
• Comprehensive user management - User profiles contain their name, email, photo and access level. Access levels are: “Administrator”, “Librarian”, “Author” and “Reader”
• Bulk import of account info for enterprise integration - BBL allows the administrator to bulk add a large number of accounts to facilitate deployment inside organizations.
• Organizations - Each user can be the member of some organization. Organizations are defined by the librarians.
• Recommendations - The librarian can assign some folder to contain recommended feeds for each organization. When a user logs in, they are shown whatever recommendations exist for them.
• Top 10 and Top 100 List - BBL automatically monitors the number of users looking at any feed and dynamically compute a Top 10 and Top 100 list, each of which is available as an OPML Reading List.
• Tree and List display of categories - Librarians can choose to display the contents of a category in either a tree or list display.
• Ajax animation and asynchronous display of user interface - This is just coool!
• And those are just the major features