Dylan Greene dot com

Earlier tonight Scoble issued a Developer Challenge: I'll switch blogs to the first blogging service that supports OPML.

Hmmm.... that's not too hard. I created the OPML support tonight. It only took a few hours.

And... it worked on the first try!

• Posts and photo albums grouped by tag: http://www.DylanGreene.com/opml/tags.xml
• Posts and photo alums group by year: http://www.DylanGreene.com/opml/archive.xml

All DABU sites now have automatic OPML support.

The coolest part is that you can drill down from the list of posts and photos albums down to individual comments and photo captions using OPML tools like OPML Editor from Dave Winer (see the screen shot).

I don't know if Scoble will decide to use DABU, but I'm glad to have spent the couple hours to keep ahead of the ever-changing standards curve.

DABU is the free blogging service I created that I use for this site, and almost 100 other people are using for their sites. http://www.DABU.com

OPML is an outline format in XML. It is similar to RSS in that supporting it today will impress a small number of geeks but support for it in the future is going to be practically mandatory if you care about your users.