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RSS Feeds From Your Favorite Bands With Roadie [RWW]

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Filed under  //   Last.fm   music   Online   Roadie   RSS  
Posted January 6, 2010
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ReadWriteWeb Describes How "Tumblr Goes Real Time"

With standard RSS feeds, a client has to poll the feed at regular intervals (usually around once every 15 minutes). A PubSubHubbub enabled client, however, will receive a ping immediately after a post has been published.

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Filed under  //   feeds   real-time   RSS   tumblr  
Posted December 11, 2009
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I Can Now Finally Try Feedly // Chrome Version Launched

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Filed under  //   activity+streams   aggregators   feedly   feeds   google+chrome   RSS  
Posted November 24, 2009
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TechCrunch On Feedly's Updates {They need an iPhone app}

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Filed under  //   aggregators   blogs   feedly   feedreaders   newsreaders   RSS   search   techcrunch  
Posted September 23, 2009
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What Else Can We Glean From The Rise Of Google Reader?

Louis Gray points to another graveyard created by Google -- the market for standalone RSS readers. But the snippet that stands out for me is this one:

"not only is innovation alive and well, but blogs and RSS are key components in creating new products." Exactly.

Let's take that a bit further. Many of us describe RSS as plumbing, infrastructure, whatever. What we mean is that it's important technology that facilitates how we use the internet as a platform. And it enables other services and tools to work properly as we slice, dice and interact with information across the web. Transporting data via RSS is something that every new service or tool will provide, at least to some extent.

Owning big pieces of the RSS and blog pie (Blogger.com) gives Google an advantage in a number of ways. Not only can it cherry-pick its way to the internet acquisition top, it gains valuable insight around the real-time web.As it delivers RSS-powered content via Google Reader, it can use the same lens to understand who's actually creating all that content. That's insight that's priceless as big companies pay big bucks for insight into the web's data streams.

The bigger question is what other pieces are ripe for the taking? I think the Yahoo, Microsoft deal answered that for us.

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Filed under  //   aggregators   blogs   google+reader   microsoft   real-time   RSS   search   yahoo  
Posted August 3, 2009
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So Pubsubhubbub Is A FeedBurner Performance Enhancer? Got It.

Pubsubhubbub

So this is what all the fuss was about last week regarding Pubsubhubbub:
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"the basic idea is any RSS feed using FeedBurner will now be updated nearly instantly whereas previously there was a delay in feed updating."

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Filed under  //   feedburner   publishing   pubsubhubbub   real-time   RSS  
Posted July 13, 2009
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