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Atom (standard)

Atom is a web standard similar to RSS. It was created to solve the problem of confusion created by having parallel standards for RSS (namely Really Simple Syndication and RDF Site Summary) and create a new more flexible web syndication format.

This is a work in progress and has gone through many names including Echo and finally settling on Atom. As of March 2004, the latest Atom standard is Atom 0.3.

External Links

• AtomEnabled.org - the official website of the Atom project
• Atom Wiki - the main place for work on Atom.
• The great syndication wars
• Why we need Echo
• Should Atom Use RDF?

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