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Working with publishers and polling hundreds of thousands of feed has taught us a few lessons and best practices for people who publish RSS or Atom feeds. You might disagree with some of them, so please, let us know in the comments. I want to emphasize that these best practices...  

It’s this time again : the time for the very controversial numbers about realtime feeds. Before anything else, I’d like to indicate that it would be great for other services to publish similar numbers. We know who implemented PubSubHubbub, I guess some of them implemented RSSCloud and SUP too. Since...  

Several people wonder if realtime feeds is something they need, since they have regular RSS and Atom feeds. Now The web now is organized in such a way that every service or person needs to go fetch any information, or have to “accidentally” find it again. No matter how great...  

As Matt announced earlier this week, Dotspots now as a PubSubHubbub hub, hosted by Superfeedr. DotSpots enables anyone to update the news in real-time with dots: mini-blog posts, including videos, pictures, documents and links, that appear in context on all relevant news articles. Using superfeedr’s hub is quite easy and...  

We said it in the past, abiding by standards makes the web better. Yet, sometimes, standards have a tendency to diverge from an implementation to another. You know, the theory vs. practice thing. PubSubHubbub is a standard. Since it’s relies on HTTP, it makes it quite easy to test and...  

Exactly like last month, here is a list of domains for which we have callback urls : they implemented PubSubHubbub! Let’s start with the new kids in the room, who were not in the list last month, again, in absolutely no particular order: - netvibes - tailsweep.com - rss2twitter -...  

Superfeedr now hosts several hubs. We had discussion with a lot of data publishers, including blog platforms, but also social network and regular “media” sites. All of the people with whom we talked were excited by real-time feeds and most of them see PubSubHubbub as a good way for them...  

Slow blogging these days, but we’re still (more than ever!) crushing it :) XML-RPC ping is the grand father of all ping mechanisms for feeds and blogs. There are a few famous ping servers, including Google or Ping-o-matic from Automattic. Unfortunately, the lack of “subscription” have made this ping servers...  

I’d like to start this post by wishing everybody a wonderful 2010 year, and a great 2nd decade of this millennium. We will remember these early days are pretty hectic, here at Superfeedr. As a matter of facts our users keep feeding us with more and more feeds (+20% in...  

Earlier this month Mamod sent me a notice saying that they enabled real-time feeds management to any website or blog (See Arabcrunch) used through Feedoor. Mamod was kind enough to create this great presentation on how he integrated Superfeedr into Feedoor. He also sent me the following : Our major...