Atom 1.0.
July 15th, 2005
Atom version 1.0 is finished and nearly an IETF standard. What is the Atom syndication format, you ask? It’s a flexible XML-based news feed specification, like RSS, but the result of a standards-body process and open for all to use and extend. Many feed readers already support Atom feeds (based on the 0.3 draft of the spec), and even Longhorn ❤ Atom. Still confused?
Here’s how to tell your RSS from your elbow.
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One Response to “Atom 1.0.”
[...] The thrust of the article is that, because Atom hasn’t erased RSS from the face of the earth, it is “dead” and RSS has “won”. Evidence? Microsoft’s support of RSS in Windows Vista (despite demonstrable evidence that Longhorn ❤ Atom) and Google’s support of RSS as well as Atom in its new Google Desktop 2.0. Consider the statement: In the past Google had strategically steered clear of endorsing the RSS specification hoping that Atom, would take hold. Google’s recent new service that allows web surfers to monitor Google News using either RSS or Atom feeds, appears to be an acknowledgment that perhaps in purchasing Blogger, they chose the wrong specification. [...]
comment posted at 10:16 pm on 22 Aug 2005