I know I’m late in linking this. I was in a plane today and then doing a ton of other things. But, Dave Winer released OPML 2.0 and that’s worth a mention here. Why? Cause of his track record of doing specs worthy of mentioning. SOAP, XML-RPC, RSS, and now OPML. Congrats Dave!
Google and Microsoft to join?
January 15, 2006 By
Fortune on CNN is wondering if Google and Microsoft would join forces to go against Apple.
Sigh.
I’m tired of these “who will defend against whom?” articles.
I’d rather hear what each company will do for customers and what they’ll stand for. Not against.
That’s how we’ll build great value.
Look at my mobile post yesterday. I used Google on a Microsoft SmartPhone to make my life better. Value was created.
That’s where we should focus our energies in this industry. I see tons of camera phones. Not enough applications that use them. I see tons of RSS feeds and still haven’t seen an RSS aggregator that really makes me happy (have you tried Dave Winer’s NewsRiver yet? You can get a preview here. I’m trying it and like it.)
We need more partnerships in this industry, not more fighting. And where we fight needs to be done because you have a better idea, not cause you’re trying to tear someone else down.
Kosso has a Flashy blogroll
December 29, 2005 By
Hey, Kosso, I want the blogroll you have built for your blog. Damn, that thing is cool! It’s Flash. Click on a node (er, folder) and watch the animation. It is a little OPML and RSS aggregator, I think. Am I right? Do I win a prize? I want it!
MindJet releases OPML editor
December 14, 2005 By
MindManager Pro 6 OPML Editor is released. It also reads and writes the Simple Sharing Extensions to OPML introduced by Microsoft.
Convert PowerPoint to OPML
December 14, 2005 By
RSS Labs has released the OPML Workstation which will convert PowerPoint to OPML. I wonder how this works. So, I tried it on my deck that I used at the Google Zeitgeist conference. Here’s the result, looks great!
By the way, Alex Barnett’s blog has lots of interesting posts about RSS and OPML items. Too many to point to all of them.
#71: RSS Bandit author considers OPML reading lists
November 20, 2005 By
Dare Obasanjo is one of the authors of RSS Bandit (a really nice free Windows-based RSS Aggregator) and he’s considering OPML reading lists and wants your feedback.
Why does this matter? Well, it’d let you create your own Memeorandum style newspage for instance.
Dare, what I’d like to do is import my 1,400 feeds and then assign a weight to each of them. Some of those bloggers, for instance, write about politics. Some tech. Some family life. So, what I want is to tag them and then give them a weight in each category. Dave Winer, for instance, outweighs Rick Segal in tech, but Rick outweighs Dave in VC.
If I delete a reading list I don’t want to delete the subscriptions. I think we need two different interfaces for those things.
What do you think?
