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Feedvault is basically a place where you can share your OPML, but they go with the premise that it is a back up of your RSS Reader subscriptions…ie. since they have everyone’s OPML why not make a social system out of this where you can share and discover Reading Lists.

FeedVault is going to be a back-up for your feed set, but aren’t they all…as I made clear in the previous post, more importantly what we need is for these types of services to themselves subscribe to your OPML.

In the future my OPML we be uploaded to hundreds of services, when I add/delete a feed to my OPML, I’m not about to update these 100’s of instances of my OPML.

What FeedVault are doing is allowing you to set monthly or quarterly notifications to remind you to backup a fresh version of your OPML…all this can be done automatically if FeedVault instead subscribe to your OPML.

Features

Comment, rate, download an OPML

You can click on a user, but you can’t find a URL by a user register…maybe it’s coming soon.
What happens is when you first join and subsequently update your OPML it is just a post…here are the most recently edited.

There are other views, such as Fresh uploads, new additions, top rated, popular…a few of these seem ambiguous to me.

You can’t browse OPML’s by tag, but you can search for a tag, or search for a keyword in the text.

The other day I wrote how you can create a quick fix Reading List with OPML Builder.
NOTE: I also mentioned that it was a “quick fix” due to not being able to go back and make changes, so even though it lives in a URL it is not dynamic as such.

Now Feedshow have released a customised version of OPML Builder called “Really” Share Your OPML, as an add on for the Share Your OPML service…SYO has the problem of users being able to give, but not to take.

Since you can’t download an OPML from SYO, Feedshow have enabled you to create one.

I ask 2 questions:

1. If a user adds/deletes a feed to their OPML will SYO be pinged about the changes?

2. If the above is positive, will then the OPML created via Feedshow in turn be pinged about these changes?

It’s important that we use OPML to it’s full potential, otherwise it just a quick way to package a list of links that live at a URL.
The power of OPML is that when changes are made to the contents within the OPML URL, then it will reflect where ever the content of this OPML lives.

So if I make a change to my OPML, I want that to be updated in the instance of my OPML in SYO…also, people can subscribe to an OPML, so it’s important these changes cross over…in which they do in the BlogBridge RSS Reader.

Another tool is OPML Factory, this is similar to SYO, but also allows to download an OPML (this is what Feedshow is doing for SYO)…again will changes be reflected.
NOTE: OPML Factory is not available at the moment, or maybe it has gone….

All the services mentioned in this post, Reading List folksonomy allow a social OPML eco-system…also included is Ziki.
But again if I make changes to my OPML it won’t reflect in the instance of it in these systems.

What we need to see is these systems have an option to subscribe to your OPML instead of uploading it…see more.

This way all you need is your personal OPML (and you could use one of these systems for that purpose), but mostly for personal OPML’s most RSS Readers now have this feature.
Then when you make a change to your RSS Reader OPML, any service you have uploaded it to will know about the changes.

At the moment if I make a change to my personal OPML, I have to then go change it at all the places I have uploaded (shared) this OPML…if I remember all these places.