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Lately I’ve mentioned a few services that allow you to publish feed content without neccessarily needing a public place to see the contents eg. a blog.
Well ListRing is similar but you do have a place to see the contents, but the concept of posting entries is the same.

There are lots of services to make list type content, eg. blogs, outliners, to-do, contacts, bookmarks, lists, notes…but ListRing seems to enable you to make any type of list…make as many lists as you like.

You can make a contacts list, a blogroll, to-do list, you can even make a really simple looking blog.

Firstly you have your homepage (which is a list of your lists), every list has a public page and an RSS feed…you can also make them communal/shareable.

Every list has 3 views:
- summary (title, description, date)
- complete (blog style)
- grid (like summary but with all attributes…essentially a tabular view - sort by field headings)

When you create a list you set all the attributes, kind of like data-blogging or structured blogging…then add an entry to the list…looks like blogging, just with more fields.

Check out the sample.

It’s kind of like the outliner idea, but instead your data is in more of a database view…it also has the blog type view…since blogs are basically databases, it would be great if we could view our contents in a table.

Now I wonder if you could get an RSS for your ListRing page, and what about an OPML for your ListRing, and maybe an OPML for each list…this way I could browse it in an outliner or OPML Browser/Reader, or subscribe to a list of feeds in an RSS Reader.

That’s what I love about OPML, whatever new services pop-up they are always ways to store, publish, share, and discover content…and wherever there is content OPML can wrap it up for you to cross platforms.

I wonder if you could get an Simple List Extensions (SLE) feed for your List of lists, and even an SLE feed for each list.

[ADDED 06/05/06: FLEXlists : share a list]