I can't figure out if it was Doc Searls or Technorati who coined the term "World Live Web" but with each passing week its a tagline that seems more and more prescient.
While explaining brilliantly the power of OPML directories...
OPML-enabled directories combine the advantages of Google--of scaleability, harnessing millions of unpaid volunteers, and maintaining an ever expanding population of "reviewers" as well as "reviewed"--with those of the original Yahoo editorial team.
... Jim Moore makes a profound observation about the changing nature of the internet -
But there is another fundamental difference between the web of then and the web of now. The most important new web content is dynamic. It is less a universe of places, and more a universe of rivers and flows.
This hearkens back somewhat to Dave Winer's oft espoused 'river of news' approach to RSS feed reading and puts a new lense to an idea I had when reviewing Nooked FeedWizard for Web 2.0 Ireland. It occurred to me then that an RSS-only publishing tool, though it may seem daft to some now, could become an ideal publishing platform for many purposes where immediacy is all that matters. Why blog the timetable for this week's soccer training to a static archive when its only of value in the near and now? Why would a pub blog its weekend gig guide when nearly 100% of it customers could access the gig feed on LiteFeeds?
Right now I spend about 70% of my reading time inside FeedDemon and that's increasing all the time. If Vodafone Ireland offerered 'all you can eat' GPRS and 3G data plans LiteFeeds could push that figure towards 85%.
The archived web will of course always be hugely valuable and necessary but the world live web will consitute the majority of daily web consumption for the young and mobile generation.
Perhaps we should compare feed notes sometime. It would be interesting to see where our aggregates overlap. Having written that, I realise it's as easy as comparing OPML files nowadays.
Posted by: Bernie Goldbach | November 29, 2005 at 02:32 PM
You're onto us !!
The Freerange partnership is one part of the jigsaw, Nooked FeedWizard is another and we've got the 3rd part in the lab....
Fergus
Posted by: Fergus Burns | November 29, 2005 at 05:58 PM
Bernie I've been moving away from Bloglines lately and use FeedDemon most of the time now. So my public blogroll there is out of date but I've been considering how it would be best to integrate personl OPMLrolls into the Open Irish Directory hierarchy.
Fergus, that's an interesting teaser you've thrown out! Unfortunately I'm having trouble putting the puzzle pieces together, but it sounds like Nooked are right at the sweet spot of mobile and RSS/OPML/SSE convergence. I think even Russell Beattie would be impressed.
Hopefully you can leak us an exclusive for a profile update on Web2.0ireland.com? ;-)
Posted by: James Corbett | November 29, 2005 at 07:10 PM
The term "World Live Web" was coined by neither myself nor anyone at Technorati, but by my son, Allen Searls, whose blog is here: http://wondiring.typepad.com.
Posted by: Doc Searls | December 02, 2005 at 06:22 AM
Well that's a new feed for my aggregator Doc. You must be proud!
Posted by: James Corbett | December 02, 2005 at 06:53 AM
Just discoverd a new mobile sort of content providers, www.ipocket.tv. There building mobile airport guides for the new range of mobiles like the blackberry and treo, I've used there airport guides on my treo www.ipocket.tv/mob, it seemed a bit basic but i like the idea and it's free, I suppose they'll have ad's or something in the future to pay the bills
Posted by: Colin | March 06, 2006 at 03:36 PM