Gada.be and OPML (and BlogBridge — natch)
Gada.be is an interesting and very unusual kind of meta-search engine, which was developed some months ago by Lockergnomer Chris Pirillo.
I came across this post today from Chris, talking about the connection between OPML and Gada.be. Chris says:
““One might not be able to subscribe to OPML today, but one can easily import OPML into one’s aggregator with relative ease. Now, a smart aggregator (like FeedDemon) will allow you to pick and choose which feeds in an OPML file get imported - and when you have several engines against which you wish to search, auto-generated OPML documents come in handy” (from “What is OPML?”)
It turns out, drum roll please, that BlogBridge is an aggregator, available today, free for gosh sakes, cross platform no less, which in fact does let you subscribe to an OPML, TODAY!
Actually we’ve had that feature for a few months now and, back in the lab actually have cooked up the next wrinkle in this story which we are about to start implementing in BlogBridge (actually with BlogBridge as it looks like it will be a new product. Wink, Wink.)
The screenshots to the left illustrate the Reading List feature and how I’d use it with Gada.be. All it takes is to create a Guide, indicate on the Reading List tab the URL of the Gada.be search result, and click OK. Bingo!
But the coolest thing is that the OPMLReading List is re-fetched periodically and so the resulting collection of result sites will update as Gada.be discovers new places to get results. This is true dynamic subscription to OPML-based reading lists no matter where they live!
Technorati Tags: gadabe, lockergnome, readinglists
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Trackback by Software — March 22, 2006 @ 3:02 am
So, what’s this RSS thing and what does Subscribe really do?
A brief description of RSS and suggestions for RSS-related software.
Trackback by Software — March 22, 2006 @ 3:05 am
So, what’s this RSS thing and what does Subscribe really do?
A brief description of RSS and suggestions for RSS-related software.
Trackback by Software — March 22, 2006 @ 3:13 am
verry interesting thanks
Comment by sun bingo — December 12, 2006 @ 1:03 pm
Thanks for the info on RSS feeds, it’s taught me a lot
Comment by James — April 1, 2007 @ 9:50 am
Verry intresting and more usefull. thx
Comment by Gabbana — December 3, 2007 @ 5:16 am
I have never been used “Gada.be” before but i do not think it would be working complex while it running. Thanks for the information.
Comment by No Bull Bingo — September 20, 2010 @ 4:06 am