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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Can We Get Socially ORL?
Radio Userland product manager Steve Kirks proposes a new nickname for this weeks geek topic, OPML Reading Lists. I know lots of people hate OPML because Dave Winer thought of it, but I like it (Id love to see a real outliner for windoze that used it) and I like the idea of a standard way of publishing reading lists.
Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon/TypeStyle/NewsGator fame explains a little more what ORL is about:OPML Reading Lists need a nickname
OPML reading lists (an OPML file containing links to selected XML syndication feeds) are the hot topic this month and personally, I'm tired of typing all of those letters. So, in the grandest tradition of the blogosphere, let's find a good way to shorten those words. I'm proposing ORL pronounced "oral". Usage: Person A: "I need new stuff to read. Got any recommendations?" Person B: "Download this "orl" file into your aggregator?" Person A: "What's an aggregator?" Person B: "<SIGH>" ORL isn't the prettiest name, but if I pick something, someone else might make a better stab at it. I'm going to start tagging these types of post with ORL, too.
Then I read where the indomitable Judith Meskill at the Social Software Weblog has finally, unbelievably, indisputably had enough of entering all her stuff into all these different services (I actually felt this way the second time I did it. Judith must have done it hundreds of times.)In a nutshell, the idea is that you'd subscribe to an OPML document which contains a list of feeds that someone is reading, some organization is recommending, or some service has generated (such as "Top 100" list). Changes to the source OPML document would be synchronized, so that you're automatically subscribed to feeds added to the reading list. Likewise, you'd be unsubscribed from feeds removed from the original OPML.
So I have to ask, isn't there a path here for ORL to capture a "lifestream" that populates all these things and just fills them in as we hop from one container service to another? Now, I know we have FOAF and LOAF and RDF and BFD and whatever, but theyre all so freakin complicated I cant deal with them. OPML I get maybe because it gets rendered as a human-readable outline but I get it. I dont know how this stuff works so maybe its all just so-o-o-o-o-o much more complicated than someone like me can grasp. But Id be happy for people to tell me why ORL cant begin to do what Ive described.Swagroll lists and shares your stuff again
I caught a glimpse of Swagroll last week and saw it again on Emily Changs excellent eHub list of Web 2.0 apps and figured Id mention it here. Why didnt I mention it last week? Well... Im of the same mind as Stowe Boyd -why do I feel like Im doing a lot of work Ive already done elsewhere? Add books, music, movies, and more to your own swagroll - my god, do I have to? Again? Didnt we do this already with Delicious Monster? Havent I done this in iTunes? Havent I done this on Amazon? On All Consuming? On Netflix? I have zero desire to do any of it all over again. Zero. [...]
Terry Frazier at 10:53 AM
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Chinese Correspondent Joins Skype Journal
Very cool announcement – telecom specialist Richard Zhao Liang of Beijing has joined Skype Journal. Good move!. I’m looking forward to reading Richard’s reports.
Insights from Beijing on Skypeby Bill Campbell.
Please say hello to Richard Zhao Liang.
Richard publishes the blog Telecom, Security and P2P .
Richard will join us on Skype Journal from time to time to give you special up dates on Skype news and events from Beijing.
Richard earned a PhD degree from Peking University (1997), majoring in fiber-optic communications. He has over 8 years of professional experience on telecommunications and security with certificates of CISSP, ITIL, BS7799. He is the Principal Consultant in China for Computer Associates.
Thanks Richard for joining us and sharing your views.
See his first Skype Journal post, Skype’s Road to China
Terry Frazier at 3:09 PM
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Monday, October 3, 2005
SynchroEdit Web-based Word Processor Allows Multiple Simultaneous Edits
Very interesting synchronous editor. Allowing multiple people to edit a document at the same time has been an intractable problem, and one that affects lots of collaborative editing efforts. Whiteboard-style apps let people draw on the same space, but actual editing has been impossible. Haven't had time to play with this yet, but it's the one new web-based word processor that has caught my eye. [via The Social Software Weblog]SynchroEdit, a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor
Or, yet another collaborative AJAX word processor. SynchroEdit is focused specifically on multiple simultaneous edits, which pushes it farther toward the SubEthaEdit / JotSpot Live end of the continuum from something like Zoho Writer, which seems more geared towards asynchronous collaborative editing. A couple of interesting features set SynchroEdit apart – the editor window depicts each user’s changes in a different color, so you can clearly see who has edited what, plus the interface marks the area a user is currently editing with a colored flag and their name. These two features would be really handy for knowing both who’s doing what currently, as well as who contributed which bits over time.
The SynchroEdit team has been led by Christopher Allen and Kalle Alm, with backing from Socialtext and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. It’s in a stable alpha release right now, with plans for a full open source release later this fall.
Terry Frazier at 9:49 PM
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