Google Finally Moves Toward RSS Standard

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 10, 2004 @09:19AM 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?"

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Re:methinks... by period3 · 2004-06-10 10:06 · Score: 1, Troll

Ah yes, the wonderful organization that helped standardize such gems as:

- XML, because the world is a hierarchy!
- XSL, because processors are cheap!
- XPath, we don't need no stinking database!

Any guesses as to what their next trick will be? A markup instruction set architecture? Or maybe some sort of death clock...