Superfeedr : Protocols over APIs
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“Tumblr” Will Eclipse “Blog” In Google Trends Search Term Popularity -
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Weekend project: a Yahoo! Pipes equivalent that uses Superfeedr. Pretty awesome!
“PubSubHubbub isn’t the easiest protocol to wrap your head around at first, but it doesn’t take long to get the hang of it and realize how powerful it is, and how useful it can be to an open-source developer exchanging ideas and code on the web. Google’s open-source reference implementation has already been forked by other users, including commercial organizations, to form the basis of additional PuSH implementations. There are now hub and subscriber implementations for a good number of languages and platforms, and web services are available if you don’t want to run the code yourself. Before you know it, you’ll be hacking publish/subscribe for fun and even profit.” — Hacking PubSubHubbub
The NewsBlur Blog: Building real-time feed updates for NewsBlur with Redis and WebSockets -
Today, NewsBlur is going real-time. Blogs using the PubSubHubbub protocol (PuSH), which includes all Blogger, Tumblr, and many Wordpress blogs, will instantaneously show new updates to subscribers on NewsBlur. Making this happen, while not for the faint of heart, was straight-forward enough that…
News.me: Getting the News: 20 Weeks Later -
This is our 20th post in the “Getting the News” series. For the past 20 weeks we’ve brought you perspectives on journalism from 18 incredible writers, thinkers, and innovators: entrepreneurs, journalists, designers, authors, and computer scientists. This week, we thought we’d take a look back….
News.me: Getting the News: 20 Weeks Later -
This is our 20th post in the “Getting the News” series. For the past 20 weeks we’ve brought you perspectives on journalism from 18 incredible writers, thinkers, and innovators: entrepreneurs, journalists, designers, authors, and computer scientists. This week, we thought we’d take a look back….
“As far as I can tell the only downside of this approach is its incompatiblity with the established PubSubHubbub protocol, but I believe adoption of PubSubHubbub for arbitrary content types remains low enough that the community could suffer a breaking change in the interests of better integration with existing HTTP features and tools.” — apparently.me.uk: Bringing PubSubHubbub closer to HTTP