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Chris Pirillo: What Is OPML, And Why Should You Care? Hey, Anne, so you're moving to Colorado! I'm going to be in Denver at the end of May. Drop me a line at lisa AT cadence90 dot com if you want to get together for coffee. I use Chris's new Gada.be metasearch service quite a bit -- not least because every search result can be made into an OPML file simply by adding /opml/ to the URL. Gada.be works really well on mobile devices, too. Matt McAllister has caught on to the "worldview" part of OPML. Things like Dave's World Outline express worldviews, just as the OPML files and OPML driven services that Matt is browsing provide more than a list of links -- they give a sense of what the compiler thinks is important or related. Alex Barnett: "Megite is going letting me do what I've been asking Memeorandum (or enyone else that will listen) to let me do for ages - to pivot off my own OPML file. " Robin Good looks at Grazr and Bitty, both of which let you embed a browsable view of an OPML resource in an existing HTML page. You can convert your Powerpoints to OPML with OPML Workstation. Nifty! OPML to iTunes. For Mac users. Wonderful that a volunteer did this, pretty pathetic that Apple hasn't done it already. Why don't they easily import -- and more importantly, export -- OPML of subscriptions and playlists? Because they're not that confident you won't find something better and leave, that's why. So it's a roach motel: your data gets in, but it doesn't come back out. What Feedsfarm is doing is really not cool. Scraping fulltext content from bloggers' feeds, and then inserting links into it that the blogger didn't make -- links that lead only to other links within Feedsfarm.com -- all of which have tons of ads, SEO, and affiliate link crap. Michaeljon Miller: Announcing the RSS connector for MS-CRM 3.0 CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management, and MS-CRM is a program for midsize businesses to keep track of their customer records. Uses OPML, too. Cool. Developer Eduard is finding a use for OPML: "For example, if I want to monitor digg, slashdot, and memeorandum for posts that contain words "Mobile, RSS, OPML", I have to create three ZapTasks, one for each site, with the exact same keywords ("Mobile, RSS, OPML"). Of course, right now it's not that big of a deal; creating a ZapTask only takes a couple of seconds. However, what if I wanted to monitor 50 or 100 different blogs and filter all of them with the same keywords? This kind of monitoring might be interesting if you want to see how the news spreads in the blogosphere. Creating 100 ZapTasks with the same keywords doesn't sound all that appealing to me. Instead, I would like to create one ZapTask that would apply to all of the RSS feeds that I want to monitor. That's when OPML might be perfect." Eduard's ZapTXT sounds a bit like FeedRinse in reverse. FeedRinse is a service that lets you filter items out of your RSS feeds based on certain keywords or sources -- it's like killfile for RSS. ZapTXT does the opposite, it filters things in. It's similar to search services like MonitorThis and Gada.be, both of which create an OPML file of RSS feeds based on a particular keyword. ZapTXT appears to be site-specific, however -- you set keyword "notifiers" on the RSS feed of a single site. Funny how one idea is finding so many different expressions right now. Exciting. Like springtime. Solomon Duskis is trying to have 2 Grazrs on the same page. Justplain: "Talking about opml and ajax. I’ve added Grazr, a opml-mini-browser that you can include within your webpages, to opmlmanager.com so you can ‘graze’ the opml-files from all opmlmanager-users." So, at the click of a button, OPMLManager has a top-level directory. Pretty cool... If you haven't seen it already, this piece by John Palfrey on OPML and how it fits into RSS Labs/News I Like startups Top 10 Sources and OPML Workstation is worth a look. Using OPML to do a Cornell Notes style outline Amazing to me that Cornell University took the care to design a system of effective notetaking and taught it to their students. Good idea. Kathleen Gilroy is building a prototype of a reading list system for the American Libraries Association. Justplain: "if all else fails you can always learn to program" Right on, the tools are for everybody. |
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