nobody reads this …
According to Google Trends (an interesting site I had forgotten about until Dave Winer just linked to it), Podcasting is just as popular as Blogging 😉 (But blogging has been around for longer)
Also, RSS is way more popular than ATOM. (It’s easier imho)
A response to this post from the lead engineer at Amazon.
Does Atom support enclosures. And multiple ones at that?
If so, I would look at creating a toolset to podcast in both formats.
However, that does not mean feeds won’t be broken. So many publishing tool are broken. RSS is ’simpler’ than atom.
If you could show me an example of a podcastable feed in Atom, I’ll make a tool to publish that feed and enclosure.
I don’t want to fan a feed war, but I want to judge by trying to build a feed publishing tool which works.
Well done Niall Kennedy on his move to Microsoft, to work on the feed syndications elements of Live.com
At least we know they have someone there who really knows their stuff. Cool!
I just got round to having a good read of the two patents out there linked by Adam Green regarding feeds and aggregators and auto-discovery of feeds in a web page.
All this would be a huge fly in the ointment for just about every feed aggregator, feed parser, feed browser/grazer out there!! WTF?
I cant tell if these filings (one from Apples' Steven Jobs) have been accepted and processed yet, but buy, this could pose all sorts of problems.
OPML is not mentioned, per se, but there are so many methods of collecting and presenting feeds mentioned here, that various problems could arise, I think.
Has anyone else seen any further discussion and dissection of these patents? If so, could you let me know, as it could put the kibosh on a few things that many of us are working on.