Superfeedr Blog

We deployed yesterday a new code for our parsers, and it now includes a more complete schema that will allow you to do a lot more things with superfeedr! Content or summary? Up until now we were considering that anything was a summary, which wasn’t really accurate since some feeds...  

I have always been a great fan of the iPhone (I had mine on June 29th 2007 : iPhone D-day), but I haven’t found many applications that were making good use of the “notification” feature that Apple added in its last iPhone OS, until today. AppNotification is an app that...  

It is very exciting to see all the jazz about real-time data being available. It is however a little disappointing that the RSS vs. Atom war is starting again through the PubSubHubbub vs. RssCloud conflict (read Techcrunch’s post about that). Wordpress said they will adopt RssCloud, while Google massively adopted...  

Superfeedr is technology-agnostic, which means that we don’t force you into any API. We use standards so that our users aren’t locked in any way to our service. However, being agnostic doesn’t mean that a solution is not better than another one in your specific case. Actually, we even believe...  

To my knowledge, Superfeedr is the only non-google PubSubHubbub out there. Let’s see why and how to use it. Why using PubSubHubbub? Superfeedr provides 2 API. Here are some reasons why you’d be better off using the PubSubHubbub API: You don’t want to run a background job You have an...  

Yes, I am pissed off I am not at Foo Camp, but I am working to be there next year, bear with me. I really wish I could be there because I think we’re making the term “real-time web” as the new “web 2.0” : a brand as Tom calls...  

No post for almost 2 weeks : we’ve been incredibly busy. We had a lot of instability in the past 10 days, in conjonction (but not related) to significant API changes. We’d like to apologize for the few times when you had problems accessing our service. We’ve done our best...  

With more and more users, we get more and more feedback and we’re slowly but surely improving our service to take into account all that feedback. As a consequence, every once in a while we need to push a new codebase with slight changes in the API. Hopefully these changes...  

One challenge we face when working in the Cloud is knowing when to scale up. That means we need some obvious figures telling us we need more resources. This requires performance monitoring. From the many tools around we chose collectd. This daemon is built on a very sleek plugin infrastructure,...  

There is already a lot of fun stuff that people are doing with Superfeedr and we thought it would be interesting to share them here. Of course, if you have any story, you can either write it on your blog and we’ll link to it (on twitter or here), or...