Superfeedr Blog

Our business cards say : “We make something stupid so that nobody else has to do it”. And it’s true : we do a lot of things so that nobody else has to. While debugging some code last weekend, I checked at some feeds that we had trouble dealing with....  

Because we provide a service to developers and businesses it is quite difficult to “show off” to people without prior knowledge of the technology. Julien built our website with quite some interactivity, but it is still rather hard to understand because you’re going to see the gory protocol in detail....  

Superfeedr went down yesterday evening. We immediately saw that it was a database performance issue (MySQL), given that the load on our MySQL host was about 30+. Since we have 2 MySQL hosts (Master – Master replication), we switched to the second one, hoping that was just a problem on...  

Meeting the right people at conferences is always very difficult. Even if you’re the most extraverted person in the room, most of the time, you just don’t have enough time. EventVue is providing a very elegant way for that by helping you prepare your conferences in advance. When we started...  

There is not a day where people don’t ask us about applications that use Superfeedr. We have been truly amazed by the quality of some of these apps and we thought we should share them with you. Today’s example is Smacksale. Smacksale is a simple aggregator of the best e-commerce...  

Today is an exciting day! We’re are at the ReadWriteWeb Real-time summit. If you’re here, come and ping us, I wear a yellow sweatshirt. It’s also exciting because we’re launching a new version of our website with many many improvements over the previous iteration. I’d like to thank my friend...  

Real-time is the new hotness. At Superfeedr, we’re lucky enough to have many feeds we’re fetching, some of them being PubSubHubbub enabled, some of them being RSSCloud and other being none of that. We’re in a good position to assess how many feeds are using which technology. Being french, I...  

The web was geographical (document-based) until very recently and it is now evolving faster and faster to add a “time” dimension. Back in the days, Mosaic was the very first tool to actually browse these sites from a site to another. Unfortunately, all these browsers were built to deal with...  

“Why make things simple when you can make them complex?”. It was probably just too easy to have a common open protocol that everyone would share and use for push notifications of feed changes. At Superfeedr, we chose PubSubHubbub, for obvious reasons, and we’re quite happy with it. Yet, some...  

There are several ways information comes to us, but they are either mostly either geographical or temporal. By geographical, I mean that we basically lay-out information and draw connections between them : a map can help us understand how a city is organized, how a product is conceived, but also...