Rss

Google: Don't be Evil to RSS

Jeremy Zawodny reports that Yahoo has added Atom support to My Yahoo: Since everyone's jumping up and down about the Atom vs. RSS (or "Google vs. RSS" if that's your paranoia) debate, it's probably worth pointing out that My Yahoo's RSS module also groks Atom. It was added last night. It took about a half hour. Yahoo's ability to add Atom support that quickly demonstrates why Google is wrong to mothball RSS. As the 600-pound gorilla in weblogging, the company ought to support an established ... (read more)

2004/02/13

I'm a huge fan of Radio Userland, Dave Winer's Swiss Army Knife for Web publishers with data to move around. However, now that Our Favorite Songs is being used to list popular RSS channels instead of songs and Radio Userland's MP3 playlist is only a minor feature of the software, the semantic portion of my brain can't handle all of these misplaced audio metaphors. ... (read more)

2001/02/28