As I have anticipated yesterday, the first, fully-featured RSS newsmastering engine is just debuting online.

This new web-based hosted service which is fully available for anyone to use right now (nothing to pay), allows to aggregate, splice, filter multiple RSS feeds, automatically remove duplicates, scrape HTML into RSS, archive news, search RSS-enabled search engines and news sources and output RSS-based content into multiple formats.

Bingo.

Targeted at “professionals” researchers, information librarians, competitive intelligence analysts, information scouts and specialized news editors, the new technology makes it finally rather straightforward to create topic-specific newsradars (news feeds) on just about any selected theme.

Not only.

The hosted service integrates all components and facilities needed to carry out this emerging new type of niche publishing into one place.

A simple and unthreatening user interface makes this new tool immediately usable by anyone having the appropriate research skills.

Though still in Beta, this technology shows already what I, and many other have been looking forward to see for last 1.5 years. All the other tools that had emerged until now in this space, offered either only some parts of this equation or were too geeky to be used by those who could leverage them best: humanists, researchers, information librarians, analysts, competitive intelligence experts, investigators, newsmasters.

This is why I have gone out to invite the chief engineer, brain and pilot behind this new service, Giovanni Guardalben, to give me 30 minutes of his time, to ask and find out directly from him, what is so special about this tool, how much it will really cost to us, what features and limitations are there, and when can we start using it.

Here is the streaming audio as well as the full transcript from the interview:

The First RSS Newsmastering Engine For Search Professionals: MySyndicaat.

[tags]researchers,information librarians,competitive intelligence analysts,information scouts[/tags]