What's the difference between Atom and RSS feeds?

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What is the difference between RSS and ATOM feeds?

Everywhere I go, I hear the terms 'RSS feed' and I see a lot of ATOM feeds on websites too. What is the difference between these two types of feeds?

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ATOM is an IETF standard while RSS is not ATOM feeds explicitly indicates the content while the browser...

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PHP's file_get_contents() and an Atom Feed

Help me figure out why an ATOM feed won't play nice with PHP's file_get_contents() method. Here's my code: $google_reader_feed = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/00703537031505701317/state/com.google/broadcast"...

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You might try upping the default_socket_timeout value in php.ini, although I have a feeling that is...

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Why did news feeds (RSS/Atom) suddenly go out of fashion?

A few years ago every browser had an icon to the right in the location bar, and every site put icons for easily accessible newsfeeds. This trend seems to have gone away. Even in Chrome you have to have an extension just to use it ? (wtf?) Why? It was...

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I think the average user switched to Twitter and Facebook for streaming-type news.

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An atom is a pure form of an element which has no charge. An ion is the same element but with a positive...

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Whats difference btwn nuclear bomb & atom bomb?

If theres no difference btwn nuclear & atom bomb why they are called by 2 different names?

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"Atomic bomb" is an inappropriate term. Nuclear weapons come in two types: fission and fusion...

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From what I can see, there isn't any difference between them. Both the Bohr model and a diagram have...

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Combine RSS feeds into new feed?

I know there have been several RSS-related questions, but I couldn't find the answer to the specific scenario I'm looking for. I want to combine several of my published RSS feeds into a single combined RSS feed. I'm a happy paying customer of CaRP, and...

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MultiBlog is what I would've suggested. You should be able to get content from you other sections into...

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Why doesn't Yahoo News have functional RSS feeds to subscribe to?

According to Yahoo Developer Network (YDN) documentation, RSS feeds for news categories look like this: Category URL: http://news.yahoo.com/science/ Feed URL:  http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/science/ But since the document was last updated, that's changed...

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A2A: Well, the feeds work for me as described when I follow the current instructions on Yahoo, and they...

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How can I quickly browse media rich RSS feeds?

Is there some format more suitable for quick scanning of image dense feeds than your standard RSS reader? I have an image rich feed. It's spliced together by Yahoo! Pipes from a number of other feeds. The source feeds are flickr tag feeds or flickr group...

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I use the Slide ticker on my mac for flickr rss feeds.

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RSS Feeds help please?

Hi all, I have to include the RSS feeds into my website. I have google RRS APIs for the feeds.I just want to know if yahoo also provides the RSS feeds or not.If they provide let me know how can i get those RSS feeds of yahoo.I wish to display the RSS...

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I don't know about Yahoo feeds but there are a ton of news RSS feeds on a site called moreover.com,...

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