#19: New Optimal Access browser released

by on November 14, 2005

Karan Bavandi, founder of Optimal Access, tells me they are about to release a new version of their browser. Highlights?

  • Drag XML links (subscribe to feeds) and the Tabs will assign a name and icon automatically
  • Export all of your links (stored in Tabs or your Optimal Bookmark folders) to an XML file
  • Aggregate headlines from different feeds into special folders and publish those results as XML files
  • Export all of your RSS links to OPML files
  • Build your own custom feeds (Moreover interface)
  • Import feeds directly from an online library of thousands of feeds (NewsIsFree interface)

    • To get it you have to fill out a little survey.

    • Farooq
      shouldn't this be #19 :)
    • Why does everyone only use OPML for aggregating RSS feeds. As far as I can see if OPML is only ever used this way then it isn't all that usefull. I want OPML with simple links to other resources so that I can have all the data I might need in one place.

      I have been creating a tool that will AJAX Tagger (http://www.kinlan.co.uk/AjaxExperiments/AjaxTag2) that will interactivly get information from technorati [via yahoo term extraction] and Amazon and flickr based on the content of a blog post. You can then output results of the choices you make either to HTML or as an OPML file.

      If you have the output as an OPML file then for each post you make a person can have alot of the related information about the blog entry all in one place. The OPML file will contain related search results [not in quite yet] and links to images, wikipedia pages and other related documents that the user has written.

      Sorry for the shameless plug, but I would like people to tear the app apart and tell me if it is a good idea or not! :) and this seemed like a good post to write about it.

      Paul Kinlan
    • Well I've been emailing Dave Winer with no response as to what he thinks about tagging and weather or not it should be in the next RSS spec. I think opml, hierarchies in general, are rather limiting in the flood of data we have now where users want to see more relevant key words surrounding their data.

      I too am working on something but am not going to plug it since it isn't done :)
    • What are you going to do if some huge news breaks for MS or Google? Are you really going to stick to your guns and refuse to post about it?
    • Stefan, I don't think there are too many problems with OPML's hierachieadness [not a word, but it was all I could think of], even for the amounts of data people would want to consume. I just think the problem is how people structure it.

      The data could be live [i.e from an RSS feed] or static [i.e. a page/image etc]. Live date would probably suffer from the masses of data streaming in, but then surely it would be down to the user etc to filter the results down so they get less of what they want to see and more of what they desire to see.
    • Dave: so far, yes. We'll see how far I get.
    • Paul: Just wait till the project I am working on comes out, hopefully the develpers I am working with will make my navigation system come into a reality. I hope it is practical in real life as it is in my head.
    • Stefan, I would love to see the project your working on. Is there any chance I could have a sneak peak :)

      Did you check out my Tagger App? I am looking for people to tell me if its naff or not :)
    • Perfect pages... tnx
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