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RSS Wins, Signals Atom's Death Toll?

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Atom's Death Toll by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".)

    1. Re:Atom's Death Toll by Radres · · Score: 1, Funny

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

      Ha. Hahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    2. Re:Atom's Death Toll by minus_273 · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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    3. Re:Atom's Death Toll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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

      You must be new here!

    4. Re:Atom's Death Toll by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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    5. Re:Atom's Death Toll by tehshen · · Score: 3, Funny

      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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  2. Does netcraft confirm it? by TheAvatar666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  3. Re:Don't you mean embraced&extended RSS by savuporo · · Score: 1, Funny

    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 !

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  4. What's with the bias? by MagikSlinger · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  5. Articles, with extra, commas by blueZ3 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Articles, with extra, commas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      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, .,

    2. Re:Articles, with extra, commas by TheSpoom · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  6. well... by DarkLox · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  7. RSS man by thermostat42 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  8. Poor dying Google... by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

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  9. Re:Article from a biased company by keytoe · · Score: 3, Funny
    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!
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