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6 items tagged “pubsubhubbub”

2009

PubSubHubbub for Google Alerts. “Think of it as a search API that tells *you* when it finds new results.”

# 23rd September 2009, 9:30 pm / google, google-alerts, pubsubhubbub, webhooks

RSSCloud Vs. PubSubHubbub: Why The Fat Pings Win. A PubSubHubbub advocate explains the differences between the two proposals: most importantly, PubSubHubbub includes the actual new content with the “fat ping” whereas RSSCloud just notifies you that you should poll the RSS feed, leading to a potential thundering herd. I’m still hoping one of those specs will detail a way in which they can be used for scalable regular WebHook-style notifications without any feed infrastructure at all.

# 10th September 2009, 3:49 pm / dogpile, pubsubhubbub, rsscloud, webhooks

AdSense for Feeds: What’s all the hubbub about PubSubHubbub? “Today we’re happy to announce initial support in FeedBurner for the PubSubHubbub protocol.”

# 24th July 2009, 6:45 pm / feedburner, google, pubsubhubbub, pushbutton, realtimeweb

The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real. Anil Dash is excited by the potential for PubSubHubBub and Webhooks to make near-real-time scalable event publishing accessible to regular web developers. So am I.

# 24th July 2009, 6:30 pm / anil-dash, pubsubhubbub, pushbutton, realtime, realtimeweb, webhooks

PubSub-over-Webhooks with RabbitHub. RabbitMQ, the Erlang-powered AMQP message queue, is growing an HTTP interface based on webhooks and PubSubHubBub.

# 1st July 2009, 8:22 pm / amqp, erlang, http, message-queues, pubsubhubbub, rabbitmq, webhooks

pubsubhubbub. From Brad Fitzpatrick, a simple but clever way of using web hooks (HTTP callbacks) to inform subscribers that an Atom feed has updated in almost real-time—solving the constant polling problem and making it easier for small sites to offer publish-subscribe APIs. Any Atom feed can delegate subscriber updates to a “hub” server. An example hub server implementation is provided running on App Engine.

# 20th April 2009, 6:49 pm / appengine, atom, brad-fitzpatrick, pubsub, pubsubhubbub, python, realtime, webhooks