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Google Finally Moves Toward RSS Standard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-miss-ultramode dept.

declan writes "My News.com colleague Evan Hansen just got his hands on an internal email thread revealing that Google is planning to embrace RSS. Evan's co-authored News.com article quotes from the email (sent to Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt) confirming that Google is rethinking only supporting Atom. Slashdot covered Google's purchase of Pyra Labs and Blogger.com/Blogspot.com last year that made it a fan of the Atom standard. Does this news mean that RSS is now viewed as out of Dave Winer's control? Will RSS and Atom finally converge?"

11 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Atom? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why did atom even come into existance? Was not RSS already established, or is there some kind of deficiancy in RSS that i'm missing here?

    If we didn't keep reinventing the wheel then society would be plagued with unemployed wheel inventors with nothing to keep them busy. It would be a nightmare.

  2. Are you insane?!? by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Funny
    Will RSS and Atom finally converge?

    If they do, then the [trekmode]Universe will come to an end![/trekmode]

    Oh, wait, that's matter and antimatter. Never mind. False alarm. Boy, I'm embarrassed now.

    1. Re:Are you insane?!? by csteinle · · Score: 4, Funny

      I've always thought that Italian restaurants must have measures to prevent pasta and antipasta coming together and destroying each other in a huge release of energy.

  3. Re:Atom? by Short+Circuit · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't realize Douglas Adams was posting from beyond the grave...

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  4. Re:FYI (because I didn't know this) by swb · · Score: 4, Funny

    a couple of interesting blogs

    You mean there are a couple of interesting blogs?

  5. Re:Atom? by isorox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why did atom even come into existance?

    A Proton and an Electron met up and decided to marry

  6. Re:FYI (because I didn't know this) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You do realise Slashdot is a weblog don't you?

  7. Re:FYI (because I didn't know this) by tntguy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Such as having a boring job...

  8. Has anyone noticed the irony by ShatteredDream · · Score: 4, Funny

    That if you add a h to David's last name that his name aptly matches his behavior?

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  9. Godwin's Law finished this already by Kalak · · Score: 2, Funny

    As Tim Bray has pointed out, the RSS discussion has ended by rule of Godwin's Law. Dave was the first to bring up the Soup Nazi, and so he has therefore lost.

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  10. Re:No one controls RSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ooooh, slashdot fight! I gotta say Rogers was looking unstoppable with a UID of 4482. But then my man pudge was all like, 3605, bitch.