IF YOU WERE IN THE UK NOW 

....and you said 'open today's outline', you'd be in 2006. Happy New Year to those of you West of here!

CHECK ALL THIS OUT! 

Amyloo has been looking at doing CSS in her River of News. Also, we've been discussing ways to enable a way to check all the checkboxes in a long list of news. So, I had a bit of a hack around and edited the #template and newsRiverSuite.viewNewsItems bits and got it to work.

Here is a link to an OPML file, which has the changes in there. Open it in your OPML Editor. (Look for comments staring with 'Kosso'.)

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IT'S THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR... 

And it seems everyone has their minds switched to 'AGGREGATE'. Paulo chips in today with some thoughts about desktop aggregators. I totally agree with him regarding mobile/portable consumption. Don't get me wrong, I think desktop tools are great as 'tools' for creation and management, but with today's browser-power, you have to have some kind of way of logging in and managing stuff remotely (the OPML Editor can do this, as a server). Hopefully, future efforts with OPML synchronisation will create interesting methods for managing your data while 'disconnected/offline' and syncing it up when you reconnect from wherever. Trouble is, this requires methods to store data locally, which can be a security issue. There are some ways of doing this though, possibly storing multi-dimensional arrays in browser cookies or Flash's 'shared objects', but it would be limited.

I think the presentation layer and ease-of-use of management and creation tools are key to all this, along with a way to import and export OPML data 'at any level'.

Inclusion can provide the 'inter-connectedness' of all the OPML files, either local, remote or generated dynamically. With all of these OPML files providing malleable structure, content, pointers to content, or extra functionality for an interface, the potential power of this 'grid' is mind-bogglingly HUGE!

With a SECURE security layer around the forthcoming sharing extensions, there's no reason why this grid should not go beyond an 'OPML Exchange Server'-type idea, but become an OS-like entity in it's own right. A new 'world', where all you need is a connectable device or interface. Think of all the things you could create, manage and share!

And let's face it... what else does anyone want to do on the net?

Have a great New Year everyone!! I think 2006 is gonna be a goooood one!!

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OPEN SESAME!! 

Woo! After another night hacking away at code, I have got the folders to work on my OPML Reader. UPDATED NB: Still no Flash here! ;)

Hurrah!!! "Next stop, Inclusion Central!" Yeehaww!

Loads more things to add to this - along with more things I can't show you yet. This could get very interesting, feedfans. The way this data just hangs together is great. There are so many more 'types' I can think of now, which would add alot to this system. Maybe I'll use them internally, for presentation and management.

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