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Facebook's Instant Articles Platform To Support Google AMP, Apple News (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the tough-nut-to-crack dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: One of the problems publishers face today in making their content more readable on mobile devices is that there are multiple, competing formats available for this purpose. Facebook has Instant Articles, Google is spearheading the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project, and the Apple News Format optimizes content for iOS devices. Facebook is today taking a crack at a solution to this problem by rolling out support for both AMP and soon Apple News as a part of its open source Instant Articles software development kit. The updated SDK will now include an extension that lets publishers build content that's publishable in all three formats, beginning with support for Google's AMP in addition to Facebook's own Instant Articles. In the weeks ahead it will also include support for publishing to Apple News, though the company didn't provide an exact launch date for when that feature would be added.

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  1. Smartphone content in Web standards by koavf · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain this to me, since I am pretty ignorant about smartphones but *why* do these formats even exist? What is it that they do that can't be accomplished with HTML/CSS for rendering a page and RSS for syndication?

    1. Re:Smartphone content in Web standards by thomn8r · · Score: 1

      https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

  2. Do it! by DogDude · · Score: 1

    Yes! You can give away all of your personal information to Apple, Google, and Facebook AT THE SAME TIME. This is unprecedented. The stupid should be ecstatic over this.

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  3. Misread that as "Cisco AMP" by billstewart · · Score: 1

    Cisco Advanced Malware Protection is their "hash transmitted/received files, compare with hashes of known malware" which has its own uses in this sort of environment.

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  4. That's true by Sarah+Bishop · · Score: 1

    Reading news through social network and the web is becoming popular, so publishers should find the solution to their news easy to read and update faster. 192.168 1.1

    1. Re:That's true by Ronyonte · · Score: 1

      But it becomes more difficult to find the one you really need from kinds of articles.

  5. That's too bad by Rujiel · · Score: 1

    ... because Google AMP fucking sucks for everyone, and is just an ad revenue scheme on google's part.

    1. Re:That's too bad by reboot246 · · Score: 1

      Just one more reason to hate Facebook.
      And Google.
      And Apple.

  6. Obligatory XKCD by knorthern+knight · · Score: 1

    Apple and Google have competing standards? We can't have that.

    https://xkcd.com/927/

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  7. Paid shills by Rujiel · · Score: 1

    I think shills are on overtime trying to make anyone who mentions seth rich seem crazy. Maybe their bosses finally figured out that getting smart people to hate assange / manning / snowden / greenwald isn't going to work.