Worth the Wait
Dave Johnson: While we waited for Atom protocol to stabilize, things changed in the world of C# and Java feed APIs. Microsoft introduced the Windows RSS platform and a pre-release of the Windows Feeds API is available in the IE7 beta. And ROME has come along way too; now with Atom format 1.0 support and a growing list of extension modules. We decided that we just couldn’t publish a book on RSS and Atom without covering the Windows RSS platform and ROME in-depth.
Dave is already uncovering some “interesting” (read: difficult to explain) results with the Windows Feeds API. Dropping the email address of the person in favor of the name seems particularly troublesome.
I wonder if Dave plans to look at the Google Reader platform?