The announcement of the
Techmeme Leaderboard last October
made only a passing reference to its
OPML feed.
I didn’t know what would come of the feed, and mostly forgot it was there.

So of course, a nice application did appear:
a web app for mobile browsing of the Techmeme Leaderboard.
The great thing about it is how clicks on sources naturally give way
to post summaries, which give way to original posts, all of it rendered for mobiles.

It’s a very smart combination of the capabilities of Mowser,
a mobile
transcoding
service and the data contained in the Leaderboard’s OPML feed.
For more on this see this post
by Russell Beattie, Mowser’s founder,
and his followup
where he introduces a companion service for memeorandum’s Leaderboard.

Mowser’s Leaderboard services are a special case of “OPML grazing”,
for which general apps have appeared in recent years.
Last year, Ross Mayfield embedded a grazing widget powered by
Grazr in
this post
which similarly uses the Techmeme Leaderboard’s OPML as a starting point.
Several aggregators have similar capabilities built-in.
Blogbridge’s Pito Salas,
for instance, explained how
the OPML file could enable a Techmeme Leaderboard “Reading List” subscription.

If you know of any more applications for the Leaderboard OPML feeds, please let me know.