RSS rival, Atom just got approved as an IETF
standard - like a proper technology.
You can read all the entire spec here. While
Atom has certain
syntactic differences, they are same the same
concept - Web Feeds. Which incidentally, happens to be what MSFT has chosen to
call its RSS support. Hopefully, this will fall
through, tying up RSS/Atom content syndication with the "Web" may limit its own potential to evolve as a technology
independent of the web. But Microsoft has succeeded in the past in such matters - even some Unix geeks call
directories as folders!! Meanwhile, there is new talk of an RSS3 standard - doesn't look all that official, but he is
on /.
Atom 2.0 is an IETF standard and RSS
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. You mean Atom version 1.0, not 2.0. Extensions to 1.0 are being discussed, and some of them may be standardized as well.
Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Paul Hoffman
1. The term "web feeds" most likely won't fall through as you hope. Take a look at the following short article to get some insight into both sides of the RSS/Web Feeds issue: http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=37808.
Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Pinzur