Tag: ATOM

RSS and Atom feeds have become ubiquitous to the point that we've begun to take them for granted, but there are still some sites stuck in the stone age. For those sites there's Atomibulator, a service that watches feed-less web sites and provides an Atom feed that's updated whenever they are. It's a bit crufty at this point--adding a feed to the service requires editing a Wikipedia page--but ...

Here's a bit of trivia: Google built an RSS API first and then built Google Reader on top of it to show what could be done with the API. Though Google claim to be working on releasing their own API docs soon, developer Niall Kennedy got a head-start on them and released his own Google Reader API docs. Kennedy describes how to use the simple REST API to retrieve any feed in Atom format, get a ...

Microsoft's adoption of Firefox's feed icon for IE7 has sparked a lot of activity, and in the interest of standardizing on one feed icon for all web sites and browsers developer Matt Brett has created Feed Icons, a web site where you can download the new "standard" feed icon in every format imaginable. He's also encouraging people to customize feed icons in a variety of colors and ...