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The ability to publish and subscribe to feeds of content is a vital building block of the indieweb.

Contents

Existing Work

  • ActivityStreams - an effort to create a schema for social feeds based on JSON and ATOM
  • ATOM - an XML schema for publishing feeds
  • PuSH - a protocol for publishing and subscribing to feeds in real time

How-to

Future

Are Feeds Dying

Feedburner APIs shut down on 2012-10-20 (per https://developers.google.com/feedburner/ ). See also: http://pleasedontkillfeedburner.com/

Is it time to deprecate feeds, or at least drop any federated social dependence on feeds?

With microformats2 h-entry, generic microformats2 parsers for Node and PHP is there any more need for bespoke XMLJSON feeds/formats when you can get any HTML page as JSON?

Or Undead already

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