What is Atom?

Atom is a simple way to read and write information on the web, allowing you to easily keep track of more sites in less time, and to seamlessly share your words and ideas by publishing to the web.

If you're new to Atom, you can find out more about what Atom can do for you. Or if you just want to get started, tools and services which work with the Atom format are listed in the AtomEnabled directory.

Created by leading service providers, tool vendors and independent developers, Atom is designed to be a universal publishing standard for personal content and weblogs. Technical information about working with the Atom format is available at the developer information page, and publications or weblogs that are interested in the benefits of being AtomEnabled can find out more about the benefits of Atom for publishers.

The latest news on Atom:

How to make a linkblog in Atom 

Mark Pilgrim wrote an excellent howto for making linkblogs in Atom.

Atom community meeting 

Tim Bray is offering to host an Atom Community Meeting June 2nd at Sun’s Silicon-Valley offices. RSVP on the wiki if you can want to help and can attend.

An Atom-Powered Wiki 

Joe Gregorio implements an Atom enabled wiki

Atom coming to a television near you 

NewsGator Technologies' namesake application has just been launched in a version that's designed for Windows XP Media Center PCs. NewsGator Media Center Edition allows the display and interaction with feeds on your television. With support for rich media and audio, NewsGator MCE shows the importance of Atom's focus on rich data types.

Draft IETF charter 

A draft IETF working group charter for Atom has been posted on the wiki. In March, I expect the names of the IETF director(s) and advisors to be filled in, each bullet in the description to be replaced by a paragraph, and dates to be determine in the goals and milestones section.

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