Pretty cool hacking up that widget, I thought it was a standard one feed widget…you could put all that functionality into the UI.

It kind of competes with Grazr, although Grazr goes further as you can read the actual feed items, not just the titles.

One of our developers, Frank Spitzka has a tutorial up about it on his blog.

http://www.springwidgetsunleashed.com/

The post:
http://www.springwidgetsunleashed.com/2006/11/creating-opml-file-for-your-rss-reader.html

but here are a couple of points of interest about the OPML Dashboard: firstly, it was put together in just a few minutes by cutting and pasting Google feed API code and a snippet i found that parsed opml in javascript (i.e. it’s an example of quick’n'dirty mashup code); secondly, it was easly extended to add a filter so you can subscribe to a feed and filter the results displayed in each feed contained in the opml file using your filter term. Thirdly, it was easy to add a link to the OPML dashbaord from a previously cobbled together social bookmarking tools OPML feed roller. I may add the news OPML roller too, some day…

tony