Atom’s Time
July 26, 2007
Atom Feed
What’s Next? · Now we’ll find out who’s interested. The Atom feed format is a success; RSS isn’t going away, but a steadily-increasing proportion of the world’s new feeds are Atom 1.0.
A prediction that Google’s influence will see Atom become the dominant feed publishing standard within the next few years.
The Atom feed format is an upgrade to RSS and as more and more publishers gradate to it we will arrive at a tipping point. There is so much that needs to be done along the lines of Tagging, attention and identity; Atom will help move us along.
