Superfeedr Blog

PubSubHubbub is now more or less 6 months old. We have daily talks with people who wonder whether they should implement it in their feeds. Obviously, it matters for publishers to know who will subscribe to their feeds if they use a hub for their feeds. Our monthly list market...  

There is a lot of debate around on OpenTwitter, OpenFriendFeed OpenFacebook. these days. The de-facto standard which is now Twitter’s API is a good news. Yet, social Networks have 2 big features : publish content (it seems that Twitter’s API is the reference now), and consume content from your friends....  

We use Jekyll as our blog engine, and we use github to host said blog. As a matter of fact, our blog is a regular git repository. This as several consequences, including the fact that it’s quite easy for us to add “remote” contributions. If you want to write about...  

At Superfeedr, we believe we have to do one thing only in the best way it can be done: make feeds real-time. There are a ton of small feature requests that our users ask for and that aren’t part of this grand scheme. One of the most common ones is...  

We weren’t quite sure how to build these analytics. We slowly established a set of requirements and constraints Zero performance impact Fully decoupled from the current infrastructure Results at most hourly Data is more important than graphs Easily-extensible, in case we want to measure more things Collecting There are 2...  

There is not a day where the real-time web isn’t growing. It’s now time to change how our web services consume information from each other and we’re quite proud to say that Superfeedr is helping services like Tumblr pave the way. Today, we’re announcing a hub for Tumblr, one of...  

It’s been a feature request since day one (almost!), and we’re rolling it out today : analytics. Subscribers wanted to know how many feeds they susbcribed to with Superfeedr, while publishers wanted to know how many feeds from them are used in real-time, as well as how many subscriptions they...  

When we’ve been selected to be part of LeWeb’s competition this year, we thought it was a great opportunity for us to demo Superfeedr with a simple use case : how can we agregate all the content published by the Official Bloggers in real-time on the main LeWeb’s site? How-to...  

A little over 3 weeks ago we announced a contest to win a free ticket for LeWeb. The goal was to create an application that uses our Rivers. A few apps were submitted and I want to thank all participants for their efforts. Several hackers spent days to work on...  

Marshall have been kind enough, when he wrote the ReadWriteWeb report on the Real-time to ask for my opinion. I want to complete my thoughts as well as give a few hint on this report. First : go buy the report. If you’re vaguely interested in the web-economy you should...