Superfeedr Blog

This will be a long post, but it deserves some time. Go get a glass of water, breathe deeply and let’s dive! The why? Even though we use “smart” techniques to get content from the feeds in real-time (or close), we still need to do some polling (remember, we’re doing...  

This seems to be the wrapper week! Our friend Thomas just pushed a first version of a Java wrapper to our API (his branch). I’d like to take this as an occasion to explain how we see these wrappers. We know our limits and we know we can’t actively support...  

Thanks to our friend Yann, we now have a Perl wrapper for the Superfeedr API (here is yann’s repo if you want faster updates). What I like with Yann’s wrapper is that it has a callback that users can implement to return the new feeds to subscribe to in a...  

A lot of our friends complained about the fact that we didn’t have a logo. That’s a valid concern, but I really didn’t have the skills (even far from it) that it takes. So what I basically asked a very talented friend to make a concept. He did a great...  

It is quite hard to debug notification based systems, because developers usually have to wait for a notification to happen. It’s been a common request from several of our users over the past month and we’re happy to say that we released today a solution to this problem : the...  

When I tweeted about sharing our Investor Deck yesterday, I received immediately a few IM and email of friends who wanted to make sure I was doing the right decision. They were scared that I would make some private things public. I fully understand their concern, but I really want...  

A lot of people have asked us why we built Superfeedr or what is the relationship to Notifixious. Here are a few hints. A little over a year we launched Notifixious. The idea behind it was to allow any internet user to receive real-time updates from his favorite websites. We...  

PubSubHubbub has been the RealTime web celebrity in the past few days. Google announced their support for Feedburner and Blogger, and that’s great to see the interest growing. We decided a few weeks ago that PubSubHubbub would be our HTTP API and it’s been a great choice for us as...  

Yesterday, the Carsonified team relaunched their website and it’s looking great. The Mission page should be a lesson for everybody: At Carsonified we believe in treating other people like we want to be treated: with friendliness, patience and respect. We believe that the web industry is one of the most...  

Real-time search seems to be the most common tagline these days. Real-time is the new hotness (we agree!) and Google almost made ‘Revenue’ and ‘Search’ synonyms. I guess it was tempting to mix both ;) When I am doing a “search” on Google or Bing (try it!), I technically don’t...