Superfeedr Blog

The web is huge. And growing. Faster everyday. It’s almost like an ocean where there would be no evaporation (the data on the web stays there virtually forever), but yet, it’s always raining in it. The rain is the new content that’s added into the ocean. Every tweet is a...  

Ping is both the ancestor and the root of any realtime feed protocol. A ping is a way to say : “hey this content was updated”. It can be light, which means the this gives a link to the content, or fat, when the ping actually contains the content. As...  

If you claim to be some kind of social app but don’t use PubSubHubbub, I think you’re missing out the opportunity to support a de-facto standard for service to service communication. On the other hand, if you’re a realtime feed standard that is not used by Twitter, you’re also missing...  

Editor’s note: As we mentioned a few weeks ago we want to offer our readers the ability to also write on that blog. This post by Doug Van De Motter explains why they chose PubSubHubbub and Superfeedr for Eavesdropper . In the real time web world, currently there are two...  

I catch a small conversation between Alex Payne and Matt Galligan today : Al3x : Something you hear over and over again from people running startups that made it: “[some capability] matters too much to outsource”. Mg : @al3x I generally like to call bullshit on that statement Needless to...  

We’ve had a few customer feedback and use-cases in the past. This week, I’d like to write about UrbanAirship. We’ve been in touch with Scott and Michael for a while now, and they recently announced a Series A round. For this time, I have sent 5 questions over to Mike…...  

A lot of the problems we had to tackle in the last months were directly related to the data stores we used, as well as the schema of the objects we stored. We’ve been using MySQL and Memcached from day one, because it’s always good when you have 50 different...  

Today, Google launched Buzz. Aside from the great social features that it brings, I want to emphasize how PubSubHubbub is at the core of it. As Brad (who is clearly behind that in some way) said, Buzz is PubSubHubbub both in, and out. This means that Buzz gets its data...  

One of the great advantages of our XMPP API is that there is no need for the subscriber to know whether the content he gets is actually from Superfeedr. PubSubHubbub doesn’t benefit from that, since it relies on HTTP callbacks which makes it hard to know where a notification comes...  

ReadWriteWeb is one of the most respected tech blogs in the Valley. Marshall, Frederic and Jared Smith, along with Erick and Steve at Techcrunch, have been early realtime supporters. ReadWriteWeb also wrote a very insightful report on this trend and you should read it. Gawker Media is one of the...