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I have written in the past about making blogs look and function well on iPad and iPhone, but those were just cleaver front-ends on WordPress blogs. What I have developed since is a true app based intranet. What I have done is create an internal VPN enabled app that aggregates RSS feeds from our internal blog based intranet into an extensible app that can be configured to display custom slices of internal content for various audiences.

In a prior article I showed how to create a simple, blog based Intranet infrastructure using WordPress blogs and PHP. This new app based infrastructure takes it a step further and integrates the new tablet computing paradigm with the existing web 2.0 infrastructure. Over the last 4-5 years new infrastructure and application platforms have emerged that have one thing in common, RSS feeds. So you can have great success integrating and single sourcing content within and across departments which is huge on an Intranet.

Taking it all one step further, creating an new internal app that aggregates RSS feeds from multiple sources and departments into a single iPad app. The app can take advantage of all of the RSS feeds that are available across your company resulting in a single app that can be customized to show content from many sources and multiple departments. This moves beyond browsers and laptops and ushers in targeted focused content in one highly flexible and extensible app.