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World Wide Hookup
By Adam Curry on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM.
A picture named WorldConnections.jpgIt's a rainy Saturday afternoon. Mommy I'm bored! permalink
Let's have some fun. If you have a DropBox Account, you can play along permalink
Download the OPML Editor for Mac or Windows here. Its free. permalink
Install it. Ignore everything it does for now (feel free to explore later) permalink
From the File menu select New permalink
Right-click on little triangle you see in the new untitled document. permalink
You will see a menu pop up permalink
Select Add Feed permalink
Save the document with either controlKey-S or Save from the File menu permalink
Name the file something like 'yourNameWorldOutline.opml in your Public dropbox folder permalink
Now double click on the Untitled newspaper icon in your document. permalink
It should expand, and you will see my document, with more icons to click on. permalink
Some of the icons are more lists (opml files) some are feeds (rss) You can also select Add Link from thr right click menu to link to web pages, videos, sound files. Anything that has a URL permalink
Now repeat the process of pasting in feeds in a few more lines in your OPML document permalink
Email me the public Dropbox URL of your opml Document [adam (at) curry (dot) com], and I'll paste that into mine in some kind of Geographic organization. permalink
When you click on my node again, you will see where I put it. permalink
This is linking all our documents together, like a directory. But no one is the boss. permalink
Lets see what we can do in the next hour or so... permalink
(ps) This playful project was inspired by this post from Dave Winer permalink
(pps) Opening and closing a node refreshes what it expands to based upon what the owner of the node has done with their outline. permalink



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