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Synchronization for the Web

The creation of FeedSync was catalyzed by the observation that RSS and Atom feeds were exploding on the web, and that by harnessing their inherent simplicity we might enable the creation of a "decentralized data bus" among the world's web sites. Just like RSS and Atom, FeedSync feeds can be synchronized to any device or platform.

Previously known as Simple Sharing Extensions, FeedSync was originally designed by Ray Ozzie in 2005 and has been developed by Microsoft with input from the Web community. The initial specification, FeedSync for Atom and RSS, describes how to synchronize data through Atom and RSS feeds.

The FeedSync specification is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.

 

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Welcome Live Mesh!

It's great to see the public announcement of the Live Mesh Technology Preview from the Live Mesh team. Live Mesh is a Software + Services platform, and it uses FeedSync as the core sync technology. See my blog post here for more info and some links. We'll be talking more about the developer experience for Live Mesh in a few months, but in the meantime stay tuned here for more samples and discussio....

FeedSync and the OSP

Since our publication of the FeedSync 1.0 specification earlier this month, a few people have asked me questions about the licensing terms in the spec.   So, today, we wanted to make our intent as clear as possible by covering the FeedSync specification under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.  By doing this, we are confirming that anyone can implement the FeedSync specificat....

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FeedSync and Live Mesh

Congratulations to the Live Mesh team, who announced their Live Mesh Technology Preview release earlier this evening! Amit Mital gives a detailed overview in this post on http://dev.live.com. You can read all about it in the usual places...so why do I mention it here? FeedSync is one of the core parts of the Live Mesh platform. One of the key values of Live Mesh is that your data flows to all of y....

FeedSync now covered by the Open Specification Promise

I've been talking to more people about FeedSync since I posted the v1 specification earlier this month. One common question people ask is about licensing terms for the spec, and what our thoughts are about FeedSync implementations. We've always made it very clear that our goal is to have lots of independent implementations of FeedSync, and that we want to enable royalty-free use of the specificati....

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