on video’s
Easy sunday, catching up
October 22nd, 2006Opmlmanager blog
October 22nd, 2006I’ve set up a brand new blog for opmlmanager that i’ll be using for news on opmlmanager!
OPML Auto-discovery Bookmarklet, update
October 19th, 2006In case you’ve missed it, the opml auto-discovery bookmarklet i posted about a few days ago, has an improved succesor: a OPML Auto-discovery Extension for Firefox (download).
Bloglines offline
October 16th, 2006Anyone else experiencing difficulties accessing bloglines, or is it just me?
A librarians opml-wishlist
October 16th, 2006John Tropea has some wishes on the opml-front:
- A search tool for searching a specific opm-file: I like the idea, but there is a risk when such a tool also searches in the opml-files that it finds within the opml (inclusion). Searching full-text across a massive directory sounds great but it is like asking a search-engine to search on a specific page and also search on all the pages it finds links of on the first page, and so on… What if opml-file #1 links to opml-file #2 and #2 links to #1. How do we get out of the loop?
- Subscribe to an OPML or get services to subscribe to your OPML: I agree, if you are developing a service that can handle opml, make it handle it dynamically and not just import the feeds!
- OPML archive or latest posts for your blog: In my opinion oplm is not such a great format for storing posts. From a developers perspective storing html in an attribute instead of between tags where you can escape the html with [CDATA[]], is a bad idea. Al the angled brackets have to be replaced by < and > and some more. And why would we do this anyway when we have a fantastic format that was designed for storing posts: RSS. Grazr and bitty will handle this very well!
The history of hacking
October 15th, 2006Starring Wozz, Captain Crunch and K. Mitnick
Added to my toWatchList! I should have watched it right away. Looks like it was taken of 
OPML Auto-discovery Bookmarklet
October 15th, 2006Marjolein Hoekstra and James Corbett hacked together something quite interesting!
I’ve not dived into it to deeply but this is how it basically works: You can add a link-tag to the header of your page with the url of an opml-file (<link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml+opml” text=”Opmlmanager userlist” xhref=”http://www.opmlmanager.com/userlist/userlist.opml” mce_href=”http://www.opmlmanager.com/userlist/userlist.opml” / >). A visitor which uses a tool for autodiscovering, which for now is a bookmarked page that wil make a little div popup at the page your watching that will you show a link that will take you to a grazr-page that will display the opml, will directly detect the opml-file. Just like autodetecting rss.
Now all we need is a add-on for firefox, so you don’t have to go the bookmarket to discover opml-feeds, but that will show an opml-icon (is there a final design yet?) on every page containing an opml-link in the header. And of course you should be able to configure what should happen once you click that opml-icon.
What would one do without the Dutch and the Irish 
Meet Janus Friis
October 15th, 2006Serial entrepenuer: Kazaa, Skype, and Venice is next. And a blogger.
“It’s simple, really — we are trying to bring together the best of TV with the best of the Internet. We think TV is one of the most powerful, engaging mass medias of all time. People love TV, but they also hate TV. They love the (sometimes…) amazing storytelling, the richness, the quality itself. But they hate the linearness, the lack of choice, the lack of basic things like being able to search. And wholly missing is everything that we are now accustomed to from the Internet: tagging, recommendations, choice, and so on… TV is 507 channels and nothing on and we want to help change that!”
Looking at where he’s coming from, this might be a project to keep your eye on!
Stonehenge was a one-man job!
October 15th, 2006Who Killed The Electric Car?
October 15th, 2006“Anybody that wants to make a revolution shouldn’t grab a gun. Lets go and start working, like we do, to chang the world by using science and technology.” - Mr. Stanford R. Ovshinsky
If you want to know what happened to the electrical vehical introduced in the 90’s and how the car and oil companies and governments made it dissapear and now try to sell us the future with hydrogen fueled cars, a future that is at least 2 decades away, watch this movie!