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"The Atom Publishing Protocol (aka AtomPub) is now a Proposed Standard Protocol from the IETF as RFC 5023. The Atom Working Group was formed in June of 2004 with the goals of producing a new syndication format and a new publishing protocol.
"...The Atom Publishing Protocol or simply APP, is the web services part of the Atom Working Group’s work. [...] The counterpart to APP is the Atom Syndication Format (ASF) that was approved last year...
"A little while ago I decided to whip up a small Atompub server to get my head around the Atom Publishing Protocol. I called it FlatAtomPub because it was just storing stuff in flat files. I’m not committing to that name. It was also a chance to kick the tires on WebOb..."
Bray, director of Web technologies for Sun Microsystems, has been a major force behind the Atom Protocol and, of course, XML.
Why does Bray think there's demand for mod_atom? "I think that the protocol is going to be a big enough part of the Web ecosystem that Apache, as perhaps the world's single most important piece of Web infrastructure, really ought to support it."
"One of the thinmgs I would like to do is to interact with Atompub (aka Atom Publishing Protocol) stores in Javascript through the browser. Since this effectively the browser itself interacting with the Atompub server, browser-like authentication methods would be nice. But services like Atompub don’t work nicely with the kinds of authentication methods that normal websites use.
"Syndicated content has become an expected part of any regular news source. Users don't want the bother of checking sites every day, and mailing lists don't allow the user enough flexibility when dealing with a large amount of news. Regular publishing formats are also notoriously unfriendly to robots, providing barriers to indexing and searching..."
A Berlin-based software company is preparing an Intel Atom N450-based e-reader that runs Linux with Android extensions. Billed as the "tablet PC for publishing houses," Neofonie GmbH's "WePad" tablet sports an 11.6-inch touchscreen, 16GB of flash storage, a SD card, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, and a webcam, says Neofonie.
