Superfeedr Blog

In the last couple weeks, there’s been a lot of hubbub (again!) around Twitter’s latest move with its ecosystem. Twitter is more and more of a media company and less and less of a communication company Generally, on Twitter you’re interracting more and more with twitter itself and less and...  

You may have heard of WebIntents. At least, here. We’re proud to say that msgboy now supports WebIntents completely: it triggers intents (sharing stories), and handles them (subscribing). Sharing Stories Sharing stories is a key feature of many readers. People just don’t read for themselves only. Up until now, Msgboy...  

Let’s put our money where our mouth is. Last week, we wrote about the need to favor protocols over APIs. This obviously also applies to schemas. Recently a customer of ours asked about the iTunes Store feeds. As we normalize (mostly to ATOM and a couple other namespaces), some of...  

There is not a week where I don’t see developers discovering that a given API has been deprecated. Today’s disappointment (at least in my twitter stream) comes from the Google Chart Tool API. Don’t get me wrong. I feel for these developers and I would be upset should the same...  

For the past few months, one of our projects involved working on an Heroku addon. Today it reached public beta. In a nutshell, it allows for anyone using Heroku to integrate with all of Superfeedr’s features with minimal effort: all the provisioning, integration and even billing is managed thru Heroku....  

Google has their 20% free time. At Superfeedr, we use weekends, or flights. This weekend has been pretty productive, we two open sourced projects. Superpipes It’s a rather frequent question from new users: what’s the difference between Superfeedr and Yahoo Pipes? It’s not that easy to explain, but (at least...  

The PubSubHubbub adoption is growing strong. There is not a week where a major publisher or a major subscriber eventually implements it. Yesterday, that was NewsBlur’s turn. At the same time, the current PubSubHubbub spec (0.3) is a bit rusty and presents a few issues that prevented more platforms to...  

I have to confess I am not the best at writing consistently and often on that blog. There are so many topics that I want to write about: writing a Chrome application, the future of PubSubHubbub, not using JQuery when it’s not necessary, our Heroku Addon… etc. But today, I...  

Do you know Grove.io? It is a great hosted IRC service with a bunch of really awesome features to make your rooms much much smarter and useful. One of the great things they did is allow their users to plug other applications to the room using webhooks. The obvious use...  

This is a short tutorial on how to deploy an Sinatra web app that uses Superfeedr to Heroku. This app provides a very simple home page that lists the latests entries of some of your favorites sites. It’s greatly inspired by the awesome start.io from the awesome Peter Vidani and...