Saturday, June 18, 2005

Apparently there are going to be some surprising announcements at Gnomedex. Wow, that would be great. I love surprises! 

eWeek: MS Office XML Formats Not OK with GNU. 

Hey Scoble, you're right! They're wrong. : 

The Seattle Public Library supports RSS. 

Shifted Librarian: "After two weeks of diligent posting and tagging, Google gave us a little over 50 referrals while Del.icio.us gave us over 700." 

Hacking Netflix: "I was surprised to find the Netflix New Releases RSS feed as a built-in option for the OS X screensaver." 

Someday this picture will be a header graphic on Scripting News. 

ind.ustrio.us 

I had dinner last night with Rogers Cadenhead, one of the people I'm working with on the OPML Editor. We were talking about next steps, now that we seem to have a decent enough foundation, where should we go next?

Rogers often has a good idea, and this time was no exception. He suggested building a connection between OPML and del.icio.us. That was already in the back of my mind.

del.icio.us is a rough kind of hierarchy, and it has an API, and a lot of users, and they're probably the kind of people who would like an outliner.

So this morning I picked up the idea and dug a very small hole. Since I am not much of a del.icio.us user, my database of tags is too small to really get something going. I guess what I need is a del.icio.us user who's willing to let me have their username and password for a few days (or weeks) or some way of cloning a user on the server side, sort of a G.I. Joe of del.icio.us, someone whose realm of tags an ind.ustrio.us developer like myself could program against.

Or does this make no sense at all?

Postscript: I'm in!