Unified Cloud Database API April 4, 2008 Embed: <script src="http://dashes.com/anil/2008/04/atom-wins-the-unfied-cloud-database-api.js" type="text/javascript"></script Almost five years ago, I got involved in a project that would eventually become Atom , a pair of matching standards functioning as a syndication format and a publishing protocol. Though its contentious genesis was in the world of blogging