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Jeff thinks we should probably stop calling it syndication: When more people start publishing content that doesn't fit the title/description/url format (recipes, movie reviews, photos, music playlists, etc.), "standard" formats will start to spring up (some have already) and the browsers will need to support them in some fashion. (This requires that the publishing tools support these new formats as well, which they eventually will. The whole ecosystem -- readers, publishing software, publishers, browsers -- will move along in fits and starts, just like it did with RSS.) -Jeff Kottke It would move along a lot better if we could settle on RDF as the baseline model for metadata. Atom and Rss2.0 by themselves aren't flexible enough to support domain specific content like this - eventually they'll end with a value proposition like SOAP's and the interop discussion will have to move up one level to get the tools to be as useful as Jeff, Jon and Lucas want them to be. Which reminds me, Danny and I have an Atom charter proposal to write up re RDF....
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