Thanks again to Amyloo for her outline and good humor..
Betraying a fondness for OPML geeks 
Jim Moore uses the occasion of the Office 2.0 conference to sing an ode to OPML, mentioning our podcast jam outline.
I think Jim must count himself among the little band of OPML geeks. We
are a clever lot, so resourceful and kind. We love our mothers, keep
our children’s clothing in good repair, and always have an extra minute
to give our cats a cuddle. We dearly love a good joke and tend to be
well-read.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2007_rss.php
excerpt from…
The Widget Factor
Finally, MySpace really does hold most of the cards in the developing widget war -
because it is the biggest platform by far for widgets, not counting the mass populace of
independent blogs (which only compares to MySpace numbers in aggregate). A lot of widgets
are powered by RSS, or a variant of it. So MySpace is going to be one of the key RSS
platforms in 2007 – and how they manage this platform will be keenly watched.
As the late HBS professor of marketing, Ted Levitt said, “You can differentiate anything!”
Thus a must read from Doc Searls today…click here…
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Visit the Office 2.0 Conference!
Esther Dyson did the keynote. She got the conference covered by the mainstream news, which is a good thing. Thanks!
On the other hand, the quotes I have read on CNET and PC World are less than inspiring. My hunch is that the talk was better than is being reported..
Is Esther living the Office 2.0 dream? “I’m probably Office 0.8,” she
says. There’s not enough reliable connectivity in her life for her to
rely on online applications. But there is potential: “If Office 2.0 is
going to be successful, it’s going to be about the ease of
collaboration. And that’s not just about collaborative editing; it’s
about managing tasks.”
Or maybe the Office 2.0 conference is too focused on Microsoft Office, as seems to be implied by Rafe Needleman’s scathing review of several Office-like online services. Maybe Esther was gamely trying to stimulate folks to think outside of the Office-clone-box…
My business partner and Moonwatcher Charlie Wood says it well. The disruptive potential of 2.0 is not in supplanting Microsoft Office, and it is not, sorry Ray O., in collaboration. The disruptive potential of Web 2.0 in the enterprise is the re-wiring of data. It’s potential is in connecting business processes and applications in new ways…
By the way, the disruptive potential of Consumer 2.0 is not the supplanting of personal productivety applications, either. Blogging, Myspace, YouTub rewire social relationships. For example, Really Simple Syndication started out as a “peoples’ version” of an ATEX newspaper publishing combined with a community-run alternative to King Features Syndicate and the Associated Press–hence the word “syndication” and the concept of the “newsreader” or personal newspaper, supplied with syndicated newsfeeds from the community. Very much like most print newspapers even today. Dave Winer as DIY writer, syndicator, publisher and “people’s publishing industry” visionary and technologist.
The real potential for 2.0 in the enterprise is in carrying forward the unfinished XML revolution. XML 1.0 connected and synchronized databases. It began to break down the silos of information inside companies. It began to break the logjam of database integration projects in companies, by making true integration unnecessary in most cases. It freed IT folks to do better things with their time…like transform business processes.
Now XML 2.0 will let business processes talk to each other. Most of the time, the “talking” will be machine to machine. ERP applications, CRM applications, etc. etc. etc. can now interconnect, seamlessly and automagically.
XML 2.0 is kind of a dull way to say it.
Enterprise 2.0 had some promise as a name but was messed up by the silly pouting and censorship by Wikipedia, and by the community’s even more silly deference to Wikipedia as an IT industry arbiter of terms….
Office 2.0 was good enough to bring together a lot of interesting folks on short notice…now I hope it gets defined in an expansive, big-tent way..
Big tent 2.0 may yet have something for Esther to get excited about…
One irony–in the Office 2.0 audience there are OPML geeks rapidly turning the entire conference into a media application, with content..OPML folks are sort of bloggers 2.0…
OPML continues to be the unsung but “famous within a small group of people” way to share knowledge in outlines. Thanks to Dave Winer (who continues to put out new disruptive stuff, while simultaneously using it to personally hack the media as a 2.0 talkshowhost and media star…. Gotta love im…).
OPML. Get a taste of the quiet revolution with the ugly name…
(or as Tom Morris suggests, “OPIUM L”..the quiet revolution. Very quiet.)
Want a taste of O? Browse through Amyloo’s Office2.0podcasts outline. This tree browser includes an integrated–if a bit minimalist–one-click RSS reader/aggregator…
Created in OPML and available now in the community space at OPMLWorkstation. Fresh out of the oven!
An outline can be written once and published in many forms..
There is also an Optimal by Dan McTough version of Amyloo’s outline here.
And there is a Grazr three-pane version of Amyloo’s outline available here.
Finally, if you want to make your own Grazr application from her outline, and post it on your blog, you can do put Amyloo’s file into the Grazr configurator here.
