Superfeedr Blog

We have a bit neglected this blog in the past couple months, because we’ve been working hard on an awesome new product, called the msgboy. At Superfeedr, we’re convinced that the push web is in its infancy, but that it will eventually change everything, from the way we build apps,...  

Back in 2010, Gowalla launched a PubSubHubbub hub powered by Superfeedr that allowed for realtime notifications of checkins either by user or spot. Whereas before you’d have to subscribe to an RSS feed and check it every so often for updates, PubSubHubbub allows for you to subscribe to that feed...  

It’s one of the small tricks we’re the proudest of, but it’s also a well hidden gem, so I’d like to take a couple seconds to introduce you to the HTTP headers we send on PubSubHubbub notifications. On PubSubHubbub notifications, the body of the POST request contains the feed’s new...  

One message a month is clearly not as much as we wanted. There is so much going on right now, but we’re also working on an amazing new product that we an’t wait to get our the door. For this new product, we needed to work on a lot of...  

You know we’re great XMPP fans : it’s by far the greatest protocol to “push” content from a server to client. It comes with stuff like identity, authentication, presence, and many awesome features. Yet, it is not as widespread as HTTP. HTTP’s massive adoption was driven by some great server...  

PubSubHubbub was initially created for feeds, because the polls/update ratio is usually quite high for them. Unfortunately, this ratio is also often times very high for APIs. Generally, we push people into implementing feeds rather than APIs for their content, as feeds are standard, and once a developer has created...  

Often times people email me to ask if Superfeedr can be used to get IM alerts when a feed they follow as been updated. I usually tell them that, even though we are able to send traffic via XMPP, it’s unlikely that their client can “understand” that traffic, because it’s...  

This is the second week (first week is here) of our #FeatureFriday series! I’ve been traveling quite a bunch in the past few days, so I haven’t been able to push as much code as I hoped, but we have a released a bunch of features and fixed a few...  

It’s a new year and we decided to take even more feedback from our users to make their lives even easier! This week, we introduced our #FeatureFriday. Basically, on fridays, we will take at least one feature that you guys want to see appear on Superfeedr and we’ll implement before...  

A lot or people tend to think that PubSubHubbub is limited to the blogs or the social web. As Etsy showed yesterday by introducing PubSubHubbub to their feeds, this is a wrong assumption and e-commerce makes another excellent business-case for PubSubHubbub! We won’t surprise anyone by telling you that time...