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My friend Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about some of the differences that he perceived between the latest draft Atom Publishing Protocol specification and the GData protocol specifications.
A few of his observations were correct, and a few were incorrect, so I thought it might help if I shared my understanding of GData’s relationship with APP.
First, GData [...]

Is it time to start work on a more robust homepage for the Atom Publishing Protocol efforts?
A Google search for “atom publishing protocol” lists the top several results as:

Atom Publishing Format and Protocol (atompub) Charter - historically important and it has a link to the spec itself, but that’s about it
the atom publishing protocol - [...]

By the way, that last post was in the context of a series of ongoing experiments with the Atom Publishing Protocol.
I switched back to Java (over Python) for the back-end “Atom Store” portion. Not particularly because I wanted to write more Java, but because I really wanted to use the Abdera [...]

David Kane over at Eph Blog posed a question on how to create a feed that aggregates news sources on a particular topic. As he illustrates, a single news search engine alone limited insofar as it may not cover enough news sources. The comments to his post discuss a few possible ways to [...]

Darren Chamberlain writes:

I was going to post this as a comment to the Blogging In Flock post, but I see you’ve closed comments on that post. It looks like Elias Torres has implemented an APP server for WordPress. I haven’t tried it, but it looks interesting, and Elias usually makes good stuff.

Thanks for [...]

Responding to my post on RSS and Atom, Robert Scoble writes, “where’s the Atom publishing tool and aggregator that demonstrates Atom’s superiority?”
And you know what? Scoble is absolutely right to ask that. Even more so when he says that “users don’t care about specs, or arguments about formats.”
The truth is, until we create [...]

RSS is great. No, I’ll go further than that. RSS, as a representation of an idea, is perhaps the single most influential cultural shift of the post-2001 technical and business community. RSS is the embodiment of the notion of sharing and syndication. Businesses will do well the heed the lessons being [...]

As has been observed before, microformats work particularly well in the context of syndicated search.
With that in mind, here is something that I have been working on:

A draft document on OpenSearch and microformats.

But first, some background:
Microformats exhibit a profound and subtle characteristic in that they can be used to present structured and semi-structured [...]

Bit by bit, progress was made on the demo/prototype for the little machine. The “little machine” is an experiment on how one could a) use Atom 1.0 files as a canonical store for content, b) offer read/write access via APP, c) build a real-time in-memory index of that content, d) surface that index via [...]

I have been hard at work try to get Unto.net to output a valid Atom 1.0 feed.
Wordpress 2.0 does not natively support Atom 1.0. Fortunately, there is a patch that can be applied to wp-atom.php to get you most of the way there. There were a few other changes I had to [...]