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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. [...]

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 [...]

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 codebase. Their progress [...]

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 solve the [...]

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 [...]