Patent ID: 7734586

Claim:
A method for providing syndicated content to an enterprise comprising: receiving, from each of a plurality of users within an enterprise, subscription information, wherein the subscription information for each user indicates content feeds that each corresponding user desires to receive content from; retrieving content items from a plurality of feeds; storing the content items in a first data store; replicating at least a portion of the content items in a second data store that is utilized by an email message system of the enterprise so as to enable each of the plurality of users to view content items via the email message system; assigning a status indicator to each of the content items replicated in the second data store; and synchronizing the first and second data stores so that each of the content items in each of the data stores is associated with the status indicator; wherein content items received from users via email are stored in the first data store in a manner that renders them accessible to other users in the enterprise in the same manner as the content items retrieved from the plurality of feeds.