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Paul Kinlan: Following on from yesterday about my http:///www.Topicala.com topical result aggregating engine being launched, I have now added OPML output of results. Therefore everything that you see on the screen is now also output as OPML. Cool!! :) Rock on, developer-friend. Diar Techblog: 'If you don't know what an OPML is you should not click this link, specially if you use itunes or like to listen to podcasts. I've very exited about it anyway." Artima: "It seems I’ve been focused on OPML for the past few posts, and why not?" Dave points to Squat Crunch on "What I Can Do With OPML." Johannes Ernst: "Coincidentally, there is good precedent for that already: RSS, OPML, Atom etc. It would have been quite easy to design a format with the same capabilities as RSS that was name-value-based (at least quite easy compared to some of the contortions one would have to go through for the examples above). But neither Netscape nor Dave Winer nor the Atom guys nor anybody else that I know of seriously considered that. This should give us pause: if their information, that is simpler in structure than much of what we need for identity, needs to be represented in XML (or, some people would argue, RDF), chances are that simple name-value approaches, although appealing on first sight, simply won't work as soon as people adopt them for not-quite-trivial use cases." YABFOG's blogroll, with his picks on OPML blogs to read. James Farmer: I have a web 2.0 sin to admit to, I just don’t get OPML.What I didn’t get then though (heady days of netopianism) was that it was (and is), IMO, fundamentally flawed logic. People don’t really do anything, let alone share, unless they’ve got a very good reason for doing it.,.But now of course a very high percentage of people are using web based aggregators and with the online desktop on the tip of everything I’d be pretty comfortable in suggesting that within 10 years 99%+ of aggregation will be something that we technically do ‘online’. This means we won’t have to ’share’ any more, we’ll just have to do our thing and the system will share and compare and do all those funky things for us, which is great. Problem: letting "the system" take care of it means "the system" owns your data and makes money off it -- you're just a sharecropper. Tom's Unofficial OPML Documentation Neville Hobson is having a problem getting his feeds to export from FeedDemon so he can put them on Share Your OPML. Hm. It worked okay for me... Teligent Community Server now supports OPML. |
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