Is Google Gonna Rollback RSS?
I was reading a post ofer at Adam Curry’s blog titled, Google’s Destiny is History. He’s referencing a few other guys in saying that Google is going to come out with a new aggregator and gonna try to force us all to switch to ATOM instead of RSS for syndication.
Now, I’ve always liked Google. They’ve done an impressive job not only surviving the bubble, but building a solid business. But I agree- there needs to be more of a sense of collaboration in this whole syndication thing. Competition is good, but not at the expense of your customers. When you all come out with different standards, we’ll have to pick them all. IM lately?
Well, I hope that this whole thing ends well, ’cause I don’t have the time to figure it all out. Me likes my aggregator and that’s about as deep as I want to get.
April 27th, 2004 at 11:31 am
It’s a pretty safe bet that every aggregator worthy of the name will support all the existing versions of RSS, and Atom. Anything else is commercial suicide.
April 27th, 2004 at 2:29 pm
Is it suicide? I am seeing more and more people switching to Atom, so it might be a good bet that if you’re the biggest and most powerful (Google) you could conceivably get more people to switch to accomodate you.
April 27th, 2004 at 6:07 pm
Enter The RSS Ninja
Adam Curry: “[Google] is betting it’s future and shareholders money with a plan has historically been proven to fail. That…
April 27th, 2004 at 9:06 pm
competing standards
Ed : “When you all come out with different standards, we’ll have to pick them all.