Thursday, December 18, 2003


LiveJournal Bits and Atomic Energy


via 2lmc: The Mood of LiveJournal and this, which I suppose everyone who is serious about LJ already probably knew about.

More interesting to me is the news that LJ is now pumping out a million Atom feeds at http://www.livejournal.com/users/[username]/data/atom. Paired with the previously sneakypeeked news that Blogger will also shortly be emitting Atom feeds points to a pleasingly steep uptake curve. It’s time for the aggregator vendors to respond in kind. Apparently Bloglines has.


:: Dave Walker 10:09 (EST/EDT) [+]

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LivrJournal also just started publishing full entries in all RSS feeds. Before it was short (char[40]) excerpts in free users' feeds and full entries for paid users.



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