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RSS vs Atom, condensed

12th February 2004

Jeremy Zawodny:

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.

To borrow a phrase, it’s just data.

Posted 12th February 2004 at 8:31 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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