Take me to the River 

Dave asks for people to collect together their Rivers of *whatever* to an OPML feed.

No problem! Just to point out that EVERY folder of feeds on podcast.com has 'River Feed' - and at ANY folder level. That's the beauty of it.

Eg: From my Tech Podcast Network folder (which is id: 2038)

Web url http://podcast.com/branch/2038

OPML Data http://podcast.com/opml/2038 (soon to be opml.podcast.com/2038 )

Fresh Feed RSS (RiverFeed) http://fresh.podcast.com/2038

If you take the OPML data from any of the folder levels, then look at the urls to the RSS feed for the 'River Feed', then you'll be able to create your own OPML from any podcast, anywhere on the network.

The data coming from podcast.com, which users will soon be able to create and manage for themselves is in nice open data standard formats (with a few extensions here and there which we will document - but do not break any existing standards) so it;s easy for any person or company to utilse to come up with some nifty cool widgets and UIs. On any device you like.

Imagine : every folder could have it's own 'bluggcaster' - as that is powered by a simple opml file.

Watch out, early next week, as I will be swapping out the current directory rendering on podcast.com to reflect all this (and makes it 10x faster and leaner). This will also mean it will be easy to connect from one user's feed folder tree sturcture to another's. Each with 'Riverability'.

Should be real good, and is a massive leap towards the beta, hopefully coming by mid-October.

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Last modified: Friday, October 31, 2008 at 6:20 PM.