December 2009
4 posts
Why it's smart to publish Realtime RSS now
This is a very simple idea but it may not have occurred to people.
It’s a secret I’m sharing with 27K-plus people who follow me on Twitter and Facebook.
If you look at my tweetstream, you’ll see I push a lot of links. I don’t have millions of people following me, but the people who do follow me are the kinds of people who do three things: 1. They click on links, 2....
Dear Santa: Please, a new Facebook API
It’s still Christmas for a few more hours and as my thoughts return to development (the last two weeks of the year are often my most productive) I’m hoping that Santa is getting ready to deliver a new API for Facebook. My hopes are up because when Facebook bought FriendFeed, they brought on board a couple of guys who know how to craft an API that works. And from what I hear...
Google Reader is wrong
I was happy to read Richard MacManus’s article about stagnation in the RSS reader market. He said the market is in “disarray” but I believe that’s the wrong word. Disarray would imho be a good thing, because it would mean users have lots of choice, there would be competition, we’d be learning what works and what doesn’t. The problem is that Google Reader...
What is Realtime RSS?
Realtime RSS is the concept behind rssCloud and PubSubHubbub.
It does exactly what RSS does, but faster. Often much faster. And faster is better!
When your reader subscribes to a Realtime RSS feed it registers with the source of the feed. When there’s an update the source sends a short message to your reader saying there’s some new stuff.
Like RSS it’s really simple, but...