RSS Wins, Signals Atom's Death Toll?

RSS Wins, Signals Atom's Death Toll? 249

Posted by Hemos on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:39PM from the well-maybe dept.

S. Housley writes " RSS appears to have conquered the last hurdle in becoming the industry syndication standard. Microsoft's inclusion of RSS into the newest version of Internet Explorer and reports that RSS will be in Longhorn's coming release appears to be the final nail in the coffin of the Atom specification. Even Atom's steadfast supporter Google, appears to have seen the light. Google had previously acquired Blogger, a popular blogging tool that uses the Atom specification to syndicate the contents of blogs created on the Blogger platform. 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. "

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Atom's Death Toll (Score:5, Funny)

by daveschroeder ( 516195 ) * writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:40PM (#13373538)

Wow, how many people did Atom kill? I always liked RSS better anyway. Now that I know not only that RSS isn't a killer, but has also been monitoring Atom's killing, and indeed even signaling its death toll to the authorities, I'm even more in support of it.

Now if only RSS could sound Atom's death knell...

(In case the editors have seen fit to correct it, the original title was "Developers: RSS' Win, Signals Atom's Death Toll".)

Does netcraft confirm it? (Score:5, Funny)

by TheAvatar666 ( 670893 ) writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:43PM (#13373558)

We all know for a fact that if Netcraft doesn't confirm it, it is not dead, so let me repeat. Does netcraft confirm it?

Re:Atom's Death Toll (Score:1, Funny)

by Radres ( 776901 ) writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:45PM (#13373577)

(In case the editors have seen fit to correct it...

Ha. Hahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Re:Atom's Death Toll (Score:4, Funny)

by minus_273 ( 174041 ) writes: <{aaaaa} {at} {SPAM.yahoo.com}> on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:47PM (#13373592) Journal

are you sure it wasn't a Death Troll?
"RSS' Win, Signals Atom's Death Toll" could really be an article about Orcs on the rampage after receiving the fiery signal of RSS' victory on the glorious battlefield.

Re:Don't you mean embraced&extended RSS (Score:2, Funny)

by savuporo ( 658486 ) writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:47PM (#13373595)

Microsoft taking a perfectly good standard, "extending" it on their own and claiming it theirs ?
Why, but thats impossible, that has never happened before and could never happen !

What's with the bias? (Score:5, Funny)

by MagikSlinger ( 259969 ) writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:48PM (#13373597) Homepage Journal

That's hands down the most biased "news" posting I've seen on Slashdot... this month.

Articles, with extra, commas (Score:5, Funny)

by blueZ3 ( 744446 ) writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:53PM (#13373643) Homepage

are, frequently posted, on slashdot. They, often amuse, me.

well... (Score:2, Funny)

by DarkLox ( 621089 ) writes: <pos89mirage@noSpam.yahoo.com> on Monday August 22, 2005 @02:54PM (#13373651)

When GoogleOS comes out, and they buy out Microsoft and Atom will live again

Re:Articles, with extra, commas (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @03:02PM (#13373706)

It would seem, that some people, put commas when they pause typing, instead of where the reader should pause, while reading.

Of course, if I,, did, that, my, sentences,, would,,, look,,,,like,,this, .,

RSS man (Score:5, Funny)

by thermostat42 ( 112272 ) writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @03:08PM (#13373741) Homepage

RSS man, RSS man,
RSS man hates Atom man,
They have a fight, RSS wins.
RSS man.

Re:Atom's Death Toll (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @03:09PM (#13373745)

In case the editors have seen fit to correct it...

You must be new here!

Re:Articles, with extra, commas (Score:4, Funny)

by TheSpoom ( 715771 ) * writes: <{ten.00mrebu} {ta} {todhsals}> on Monday August 22, 2005 @03:14PM (#13373794) Homepage Journal

Mr. Shatner, I didn't know you posted on Slashdot! Can I have your autograph?

Re:Atom's Death Toll (Score:3, Funny)

by ch-chuck ( 9622 ) writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @03:26PM (#13373873) Homepage

Guess you could say that Atom bombed - which would explain the death toll.

Poor dying Google... (Score:5, Funny)

by Just Some Guy ( 3352 ) writes: <kirk+slashdot@strauser.com> on Monday August 22, 2005 @03:41PM (#13373993) Homepage Journal

Google had previously acquired Blogger, a popular blogging tool that uses the Atom specification to syndicate the contents of blogs created on the Blogger platform.
...and we all know that Google's poor, beleaguered programmers will be incapable of altering the source of the application they own to transmit two. different. formats! of syndication data. That'd be like expecting them to support multiple locales or offer some kind of an aggregated news service. Why, oh why, must we constantly demand the impossible of our heroes?
Or they could just let an intern hack something up one weekend. Either way.

Re:Article from a biased company (Score:4, Funny)

by keytoe ( 91531 ) writes: on Monday August 22, 2005 @05:39PM (#13374827) Homepage

it seems unlikely that Vista will ship without support for all three, if it does then that will give Apple something else to crow about since Safari supports RSS, Atom and RSS

Internet Explorer 7 - Supports six syndication formats: RSS, Atom, Atom, RSS, Atom and RSS. That's twice as many as Safari!

Re:Atom's Death Toll (Score:4, Funny)

by tehshen ( 794722 ) writes: <tehshen@gmail.com> on Monday August 22, 2005 @07:01PM (#13375357)

If you post a grammar rant then you automatically include one mistake (it's like a law, or something).

"no fewer than"

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Does netcraft confirm it? (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Don't you mean embraced&extended RSS (Score:2, Funny)

What's with the bias? (Score:5, Funny)

Articles, with extra, commas (Score:5, Funny)

well... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Articles, with extra, commas (Score:1, Funny)

RSS man (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Articles, with extra, commas (Score:4, Funny)

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Poor dying Google... (Score:5, Funny)

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