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OPML some people don’t get it!

Posted by geeknews at 1:07 PM on September 30, 2005

I told you last night in my Podcast that your going to have to start watching the OPML space very close because their has been some movement their. Today my OPML search tags on the RSS search engines started firing away on all cylinders. Thanks to Scoble I found a link to a guy that just doesn’t get it and I am glad Robert took the time to spell it out.

Sometime people need stuff spelled out and even though OPML is not that difficult of a subject a lot of people really do not understand the power behind the markup language. If you have a spare 30 minutes today you need to do 2 things. Read this article first then go download this program and play with it for the last 20 and then you may start to understand the power of OPML and how it can fit what you do on the web.

MovableType users will not want to miss this article.

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Posted in Media, opml, scoble, Software

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LinkRanks LinkCounts SiteStats

Posted by geeknews at 4:34 PM on September 26, 2005

I have had a look at the new features at Pubsub and found that even though they have done a great job in detailing incoming and outgoing links they are missing large chunks of data. I did some link counting on my own and they are missing a large percentage of the outgoing and missing many of the incoming. I am not surprised but until a service can scale big enough to make sure that they are not missing anything their will be holes. [Pubsub Linkranks LinkCounts and SiteStats]

Oh and another thing most of their feeds are ATOM the question is were are all of the RSS feeds. This is a site wide issue. People are already confused enough when it comes to RSS and yet they have everything listed in RSS. They also promoting something called SB Enhanced which I have never heard of?

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Posted in opml, pubsub, RSS, Services

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Robert Scoble said big news out of PDC where is it!

Posted by geeknews at 2:27 AM on September 14, 2005

Robert I am wondering were the big news out of PDC is, if the big news is that Windows Vista has a lot of RSS support, did we not know that was coming already, and many of the features were already expected. Do you have another rabbit your going to pull out of a hat? Or was it the Office interface change?

I love RSS but come on, really rock our world with something amazing! I want Microsoft to really wow us instead of just getting their applications compliant with a standard that has been on the map for a long time.

Let’s see if you can really wow me today with something new and exciting.

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Posted in Microsoft, opml, RSS, Software

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Dave Winer OPML Editor Shipped Today

Posted by geeknews at 2:54 PM on July 25, 2005

I had the Beta loaded but my schedule had prohibited me from really hammering away at it. I look forward to seeing what everyone has to say about it. [OPML Editor]

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