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09 June 2004   

 

Google mulls RSS support

Bloody typical! I go over to the dark side with Atom API, and find that it's pretty shaky, but seemingly fairly powerful. Just don't wobble the table too much ;-)

Then, Google comes back into the light with RSS.

The only reason Ev Williams took on Atom was to shaft Dave Winer. Bollocks about Atom API being better, and not wanting to confuse teenage girl customers with too many tick boxes. Ben Trott's reasons for choosing the erstwhile Echo API look hollow these days too.

So now what? Do I wait till Ev's been binned by Google along with Atom? Or will there be two versions of the feeds and then two versions of the API? Or, do we have to wait to see if they'll join together into another half breed API? Or wait till IETF matures the Atom API? Or Web-Dav swallows everything?

Fear, uncertainty, doubt!

I guess, this blog vendor will do this, and that blog vendor will do that, which is the way, it seems that Six Apart is adding their own stuff to the Atom API, books, music, links and people lists... Sure Blogger will add their own soon, if they haven't already. Though Atom is extensible so I guess that it's good move.

So I'll move on regardless. One API for these, one for those.


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Atom APIs

I was reading Mark Pilgrim on the Atom API and the Atom authentication till late last night. Thinking that it looks not too difficult, once you get into it. After using XML-RPC and the MetaWeblog API as a well as the Blogger API for years, this doesn't look too tricky at all.

I'm interested in it for a project that I'm thinking up, and it's the API I'm interested in not the feed. So was also reading: TypePad's Atom API documentation and Ev Williams on the new Blogger's use of templates and the Atom API: I've taken some notes.

[Update:] Nonces in UserTalk. More from Mark Pilgrim re the Nonce in Atom API And to sha1 I'll try a com object, since there's no sha1 in usertalk. [Update:] Andre Radke pointed to a set of crypto bits for Frontier, with a sha1 hash. Works perfectly.


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