I‘m underimpressed with Winer’s OPML ..uh.. stuff. Here’s the stuff that bothers me: from a programmer’s point of view, it’s always stuff that has been done before. Revolutionary?
Look at the work NASA programmers do, that’s revolutionary. Winer and his scripting? No offense meant, that’s PlayMobile.
So his latest screenshot, shows a ‘buddy update’ from within his OPML (trademark!) uh something, and I’m like Jabber? Winer says it can be called ‘Really Simple Groupware’, which is as close as what Jabber is called:
Under the hood, Jabber is a set of streaming XML protocols and technologies that enable any two entities on the Internet to exchange messages, presence, and other structured information in close to real time
So? What’s the deal? What’s so new about it? And how is it that there are PYGMEES + DWARFS??!