LinkBlox: OPML based blogroll viewer
Laszlo Systems now has a cool OPML blogroll widget called LinkBlox. If your browser/aggregator supports Javascript and Flash, you'll see it below with the default OPML blogroll in use:
LinkBlox is free for use on your own pages, and Laszlo has a number of nice ideas for creating a Javascript widget. When you register for LinkBlox, you are given a form that allows you to specify all the parameters, such as the OPML file to use and the colors of the widget. You are then given a single line of Javascript that you can embed in any web page. Since the widget displays the contents of an OPML file, every time the contents of that file changes the blogroll will automatically change. This is a great way for a site like Technorati or Top10Sources to deliver fresh reading lists to people's pages.
LinkBlox currently has some limitations, which should be addressed if Laszlo wants to be competitive in this rapidly growing space. The OPML structure accepted is limited, and can't work with an outline more than one level deep. More importantly, LinkBlox doesn't know about RSS links, so you can't use it for feed grazing. Sorry, James.
(via John Tropea)
