Share Your OPML
More on OPML because Dave Winer has published his new “Share Your OPML” site. First, you upload your OPML file (the list of RSS feeds to which you subscribe). Then you can see who subscribes to the same feeds that you do. For example, here’s who subscribes to my feed. You can also browse lists of the top 100 feeds, the biggest blog junkies and much more.
Steve Rubel blogs about this and writes that it needs the big aggregators for support: “You should have the option in Bloglines, Newsgator, My Yahoo, WIndows Live and the Google Reader to automatically share all or some of your feeds on this site.” Well, doesn’t it make much more sense if Bloglines would make this feature available for it’s users? They already have the OPML-import and export service, and it’s already possible to see which feeds someone reads if they have a public account. So if that is gonna happen why would I use the tool from Dave?
Next to that, the various OPML versions need to get more compatible.
The Share Your OPML service has additional features worth to have a look at. These features could inspire you while you are looking for information sources.
For instance, take a look at the OPML/Reading List of someone that reads one or more feeds that you read too. That list COULD generate a lead to a feed covering the same subject you are interested in.
Hi Fred, that’s true. But Bloglines also has a feature where you can see the public subscribers that read a specific feed, so with little adjustements that could become the same OPML/Reading List feature.
I think this service is really cool but I just don’t think it’s gonna get really big without some sort of feedreader attached to it…
Vincent,
I’m not a fan of services packaged all together.
I like the ’small pieces loosely joined’ philosofy of David Weinberger (http://www.smallpieces.com/). By building the web this way it is more likely that services can be used by as many people as possible. And THAT’s what it’s all about. Isn’t it?