OPML.cn Relaunch

Written by Tangos on November 8, 2006
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OPML.cnIn last year’s cnbloggercon, I met Cell (Liu Peng), the founder of Opml.cn and had some conversation about opml. On last November, he launched opml.cn with the aim to build an opml share community, something similar to Share Your OPML. But due to low market awareness, several months later, Opml.cn was directed to Goto.cn, a music playlist share community.

However, Cell has not stop his dream on opml, and he thinks as the release of IE7 and FireFox, more and more users will start to know RSS and OPML. It is time to relaunch Opml.cn. It is still an opml share and discovery community, it add a Grazr-like widget for users to embed it into blogs to share with friends. I tried to upload or import my own opml file, but it failed to parser it. It seems Opml.cn still has some serious bugs to be fixed before its official relaunch. But you can still have a glance at the widget on Cell’s blog in Sina. Opml.cn will also introduce its own rss reader, but it is still buggy and under development. Besides Opml.cn, Cell intends to expand to English-speaking world, an English version in opmling.com will be launched soon.

Though there are more users start to use RSS reader than one year ago, but I think opml is still too geeky. The idea is cool, but to build a successful community around opml is far from easy. Good luck, Cell.

4 Responses to “OPML.cn Relaunch”

  1. cell on November 8th, 2006 9:15 am

    雄关漫道真如铁，
    而今迈步从头越！
    感谢tangos一直以来的关注和鼓励。
    我们即将呈现给用户一个完整和稳定的版本，最后的测试即将完成，就可以交付给用户再检验了。
    对外的合作正在逐步展开，我们希望这个OPML中文站点能给用户带来一些用途。

  2. trevelyan on November 9th, 2006 12:18 am

    Am I stuck in web 1.7? Reading this piece I had absolutely no idea what OPML was. And after visiting OPML.cn and another site linked above I *still* had no idea, save that it apparently involves “sharing outlines, feeds, and taxonomy” and that “it is up to me to decide how to use them”.

    Perhaps the first step in pushing opml.cn forward is making it a bit more clear to casual surfers like myself why we should take the time to register. Changing the colour of the text on the main site so that the green font is not placed on top of a green graphic would help with readability too.

  3. Tangos on November 9th, 2006 9:54 am

    trevelyan, that’s why I think opml is too geeky to be accepted by many users. You can get an idea what is opml in Wikipedia.

  4. rssexpress on June 25th, 2007 9:56 am

    用RSS订阅新闻聚合，用OPML管理RSS订阅，用手机阅读OPML，随时随地获取即时信息
    RSS快车 http://www.rss-express.com

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