Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

At Bloggforum Moz Hussain spoke about MSN Spaces. In this bit he explains “gleaming” — a killer feature in MSN Messenger.

Microsoft has really nailed this feature in Messenger. There are some people (my friends) where I'm interested in everything they publish, unlike my feed reader which I use to skim posts. It's the concept of RSS without RSS the file format and that's an important difference. There's no reason to stick with the RSS format for this scenario. The confusion of concept and file format seems to have hit in the recent OPML versus XOXO debacle. Here some people seem to confuse OPML The Concept (sharing lists, pretty cool) with OPML The File Format (messy, very uncool compared to XOXO).