Jason Kolb recently wrote 2 articles about how he would like to be able to access his personal data the ipod-way:
“The iPod makes the music part of my life easy. The most important thing it does is make the vast amounts of music that I have accessible and useful. And this got me to thinking. A lot of what I really want to accomplish with technology runs along the same lines. I look at all the data in my life from the perspective of a business-intelligence executive, and I see giant piles of data, none of them talk to each other, and the only systems I currently have to navigate the piles are in the stone age. I want to make those data silos that make up my digital life easy to use for once.”
When reading his articles (Browsing personal data iPod-style and Flattening the Internet with a Personal Data Browser Control), the first thing that popped in my mind was ‘that’s an opml job’. The ipod way of structuring data is just plain simple outlining. I think opml could work perfect to act as a container for this personal info. It can handle links to rss, html and other xml-formats.
Which pieces could we loosely join to create such a personal data browser?
