Interesting Feed Data at Share Your OPML
Posted on May 9, 2006
Share Your OPML is a new website that lets people upload their OPML file and compare it to the OPML files of others. An OPML file is an xml file that contains information about the feeds people are subscribed to. You can easily download it from your RSS Reader, such as NewsGator or Bloglines. As more and more OPML's are shared at Share Your OPML the data will become more useful. You can see from the list of the most prolific subscribers and learn that Dimitar Vesselinov has subscribed to over 8,000 feeds. You can also see who subscribes to certain feeds and find subscriptions like yours. Share Your OPML also has a community blog.
Share Your OPML also lists the Top 100 Feeds on its homepage. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch thinks Share Your OPML's Top 100 list could become the definitive top 100 list.
There's a top 100 list of the most popular feeds which could become the definitive top 100 list once there is a statistically relevant number of users (subject to SYO successfully controlling spam). You can also see other users that have similar reading habits as you (it's called "subscriptions like mine"). Based on this last feature, John Tropea, Robert Scoble and Dave Winer are my closest matches. I may find other interesting feeds by perusing their lists.It may become a highly regarded list but it doesn't have much chance of becoming the list. There just aren't enough people using feeds at this point for it to be inclusive enough to be the list. Plus, it will skew really high towards technology focused blogs.
Update: Share Your OPML is no longer available.