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I did post about Apple’s iPhoto 6.0 Photocasting feature. What it does is, it lets you share your photos on your iPhoto application through a .Mac account via RSS feeds. Your friends an family then could subscribe to the feed to get your photos.

Well it seems that Apple is not using standard RSS feed. I swear I heard Steve Jobs said “industry standard RSS feeds” for photocasting on his keynote. It seems that you can not view the feeds if your are not using a Safari browser or NetNewsWire feed reader.

on Dave Winer blog post :-

Did Jobs really say it’s “industry standard,� as Engaget quotes him? I’d love to see some evidence of that.

Wait Phil Ringnalda spotted the url to the “real� feed.

http://web.mac.com/mrakes/iPhoto/photocast_test/index.rss

I couldn’t read that in my browser, so here’s a copy.

http://static2.podcatch.com/blogs/gems/snedit/rss.xml

Dave Winer has a blog post about what was wrong in Apple’s iPhoto 6.0 Photocasting RSS. You can also get full details of what is broken over at this unofficial documentation of iPhoto 6.0 photocasting.

I seem to be obsess with RSS and photo lately. RSS is pretty exciting to me. RSS is more then feeding, syndicating text and links. Podcaster use RSS to syndicate their podcast. Many podcatcher program uses RSS, heck even iTunes uses RSS for the podcast feature in the iTunes Music Store. There were however some issue with iTunes not using standard RSS back then, and now it’s the same with iPhoto.

RSS and this concept of syndicating is pretty new, maybe 2 or 3 years from now it will become standard. Wonder what would happen to other feed syndication like Atom or OPML?

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