Superfeedr Blog

Erick Schonfeld published the blog post of the day week. Despite the fact that he should have talked about Superfeedr, I think this is an awesome article. I am really looking forward to tomorrow’s panel and see what “Brett”, Brad, Freddy and Andy have to talk about. The comments, though...  

A lot of people have shown interest in Aristochat and the Superfeedr chat last week. However, I haven’t talked about what is – according to me – the greatest thing about it : it’s hosted on Github. Not only the source code, but the app itself, and since it’s a...  

It all started when we used Slicehost’s chat-room for their support : not only it’s awesome to have 24/7 support, but it’s also great to have a short-message interface that allows real-time discussion and interaction. Unfortunately, Campfire is “proprietary” software and it doesn’t seem to be XMPP based. XMPP is...  

We are strong believer of Test Driven Development. It’s a very powerful approach that allows you to write tests before actually writing code. (These tests are actually specifications). That is how we created our parsers : we selected random feeds on the web, and decided what should be the mapping...  

Technically, Real-Time Computing implies that there is a time constraint in a system, it’s different from instantaneity. A real-time service is a service that can guarantee that it would do something in a given amount of time. Superfeedr is real-time, since we can guarantee that we will notify new entries...  

One of the great features of Superfeedr is that it sends a standard format for feed entries. Whether the initial feed format was any flavor of Atom, or RSS, we would map this into a standard Atom feed. Thanks to that it is easier for you to integrate this data...  

RSS and ATOM have very similar (if not identical) purposes. I don’t know any feed consumer that consumes only one type, yet, a lot of services are still providing both. Publishing both is useless, because it’s likely that services will end up polling both of them, to identify new content....  

It’s a fact, polling sucks, and it sucks, because it’s stupid. This is what kellan and rabble showed last year at OSCON : On July 21, 2008, Friendfeed hit Flickr 2.9 million times to get the latest photos of 45,754 users, of which 6,721 visited Flickr in that 24-hour period,...  

We’re proud to announce that Superfeedr is one of the very first services to actually support the infamous PubSubHubbub protocol. If you think the name is ugly, check the CSS style of the spec. This presentation should give you enough details about PubSubhubbub. What does that mean for you superfeedr...  

Welcome to the Superfeedr’s blog. I am not sure what you expect from here. You know what a geek does when he’s embarrassed does, right? He gets into technical details. This blog has been built with the great piece of code that Jekyll is. It is hosted on Github, and...