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Google Co-Op: Walled-garden alternative to Share Your OPML
Another day, another Web 2.0 walled garden? Google Co-Op seems similar to Share Your OPML, only it's not open and interoperable with other such concepts, but gives Google users one more reason never to leave the Google site. Two things will probably happen. The OPML community will rise to the challenge of making OPML as easy to use as Google Co-Op, and Google will (eventually) publish an API to Google Co-Op which someone will use to make it read and write OPML -- if someone doesn't figure out a cool hack to do it first, without an API.
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Posted on May 10, 2006 at 02:51 PM | Permalink
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I'm sorry, but I can't see how this is similar in any way to Share Your OPML?
Contributors providing richer search features within Google for people to subscribe to and see in their queries, and essentially "tagging" results to provide metadata for search results...is like sharing subscription lists how?
Also, as these features enrich Google...what benefit would "opening" up the data bring? And how would OPML help?
I'm just confused! :-)
Posted by: Phil at May 13, 2006 1:50:21 AM
How is it a wall-garden? It is just subscribed links to other sites? It's not like share your OPML. Coop in a sense is user-generated verticals. Contributors create their own one-box on top of google search, and users subscribe to it, and those links are triggered when it matches a search term.
Posted by: or at May 13, 2006 10:06:33 AM
