OPML Editor support: : “4. As soon as we verify that this process works, I’ll explain how to set up your own community server.”

Oh yes.

2006 will be a really interesting year, when people get their hands on this…we’ll see collaborative outlining servers…
Finally, we can power small, private workgroups, large (and small) scale public outline sharing and really drive the power of opml.

I’ve watched Dave Winer push, cajole and deliver rss, podcasting, desktop servers, blogging apis and generally have a hand in creating the impetus and technical vision for pretty much everything that has changed the way I work, think and communicate.

That’s pretty bloody impressive.

I still have fond memories of installing the early pre-releases of Radio, not getting it, at all, then trying it again, knowing that it was cool…but I just couldn’t see the profoundness.

And then I discovered outlining on my ibook, and it changed the way I worked.

I never really got on with Radio – it was a carbon app on the Mac, and although it worked beautifully, it really annoyed me because it was forced to create 8.3 format filenames…which looked horrible on the web server.

Mind you, I used it for over a year, in conjunction with Active Renderer , to upstream my outlines (all sadly archived with my move to textdrive) on the web and share the opml exports from omnioutliner.

In retrospect, Radio was/is a groundbreaking product – it really was super cool – instant bloody web server on the desktop, and enclosures in rss, and it was instant collaboration out of the box. It should (maybe it did) sell like hotcakes in big enterprises.

I think this new community server will build on all the potential of Radio – and with all that open source goodness, drive lightweight collaboration through outlining. Which is a *good thing*.

And it will be interesting to see how well adopted ‘instant outlining‘ becomes with people – it’s a fantastic blend of desktop app and web leveraged collaboration…the best of both worlds and the none of the failings…

UPDATE: Er, how on earth did I miss this – a bloody community server for Radio…That’s what comes of living in MovableType world for several years…this could be fantastic for my client who’s rolling out weblogs to his team…agh – it requires Radio – and they can’t install apps onto the desktop…