Now this could be something monumental, IF such a move gets adopted by blogs and RSS aggregators/readers. With this single move, any website publishing RSS will attain real-time capabilities similar to Twitter.
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cbmilne33
· 3 months ago
This could mean that if Wordpress and the rest of Automattic increases in its developments that some pressure could be taken off Twitter,Google Reader,and other services that are going through bandwidth and other service issues these days.
Ola
· 3 months ago
How does this compare to PubSubHubbub? Is it a complement or a competitive method?
More importantly, since I have PubSubHubbub today, should I install RSSCloud as well or just use on of the plugins. If so, which is the better choice.
drewmeyers
· 3 months ago
awesome to hear. I'll definitely try the plugin on my blog to see how it works.
Daniel Saynt
· 3 months ago
Thank Google. I hate the fact that all of my posts take so long to hit the reader. So many of our posts hit Twitter and Facebook once they are posted so this should make live conversations from commenters a little easier.
mike
· 3 months ago
Google already has it's own specification that does pretty much the same thing. http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/ - already supported by Google Reader.
blogtastic
· 3 months ago
Now the world can ignore 7,499,950 blogs faster than ever before.
Money-Era
· 3 months ago
Great! Not only that I write a blog (www.money-era.com) and will be able to reach my audience real quick, but also that I use Google Reader all the time - now I will receive latest news instantaneously!
lagspike
· 3 months ago
twitterfeed also can limit the time taken, unless you post them to twitter via plugin or manually.
vk77de
· 3 months ago
Twitter vs rssCloud vs IRC
Many people talk to each other on Twitter. So one could describe Twitter as more than just real time status updates.
Many people also use a distributed talk system IRC since times immemorial.
So what could anybody say about rssCloud and IRC and Twitter?
Hameedullah Khan
· 3 months ago
I think RSS was still better then Twitter without Real Time. Now rssCloud is just another RSS protocol which will make all RSS feeds real time, so the statement Wordpress is realtime but RSS is not true.
While truly RSS is still not real time yet, because rssCloud only works with RSS readers/aggregators that support rssCloud. So until the support for rssCloud has ben added to readers we can not make use of this new real time RSS.
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· 3 months ago
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Wine glass
· 3 months ago
Unless Rss readers support it, pushing from the blogger side isnt going to be much help. And serious users of rss always often refresh feeds that they know are high-traffic. And here I was thinking remembering seeing an item called 'check for new items every x minutes' in google reader preferences - it should be there, but IT IS NOT! And try right clicking on any link at the right (links of unread items from feeds you have subbed to) on google reader home page (the one that appears immediately after opening google reader) - you cant open a link in a new tab because reader has screwed up some css the links do not trigger the appropriate context menu! Same in both Firefox and IE8!
Mark Essel
· 3 months ago
Great reporting Ben! I've been following Dave's work on rsscloud for a couple of months but wasn't sure how to participate easily. A wordpress pluggin and river2 reader really open up the service to a BIG section of users. Once Google Reader jumps aboard I don't see anything stopping real time rss.
I'm curious how search will adopt to the faster blog updates. I briefly described a search like status concept that propagates search much like any other feed and servers can reply to the query.
Josh Grenon
· 3 months ago
Now I can go back to Google RSS Reader instead of being on Twitter all day! :)
Jalada
· 3 months ago
'Hopefully you’ll be getting Mashable in your RSS reader instantly very, very soon.'
Um. You already can? Mashable uses FeedBurner and has Pingshot turned on, so Mashable's RSS feeds are Pubsubhubbub enabled. Any reader that supports Pubsubhubbub (for example FriendFeed) can get Mashable instantly already.
petermengo
· 3 months ago
If my friends can now "follow" me via my real time blog - and I don't have the ridiculous limitation of 140 characters - and I can push any kind of media the way I want - and can put all the blogs I follow on a single MyYahoo or iGoogle page (essentially building my own poor man's Tweetdeck) - and if Google taps into all those new feeds and I can search real-time - and my friends can comment on any of my real-time posts in any medium they choose - and those are pushed to my other followers ... what do I need Twitter for?
CarlPhelps
· 3 months ago
This could really help wordpress gain more popularity as the go-to blogging client. Also will help RSS feeds gain bigger importance in the blogging community, along with more comments! Very good for blogs in the fight for attention against social networks.
Below the surface, this development has far reaching implicatons and I, for one am quite exited about the possibilities.
Rogers Cadenhead
· 3 months ago
I used RSSCloud as a Radio UserLand blogger many years ago. It's very cool, but there's a reason UserLand shut down its cloud notification servers several years ago -- massive scaling issues. I have a blog with 16,000 subscribers that updates 20 times a day. 1,000 of those subscribers are using desktop RSS clients. Just for my one blog, 20,500 notifications would be sent each day over XML-RPC, SOAP or HTTP, and many of those would fail due to users with firewall issues or connection timeouts.
I look forward to seeing what WordPress does here, but with 7.5 million blogs, once RSS clients start supporting RSSCloud it will become a staggering engineering challenge to send out billions of notifications. I don't see how it can work.
Russ
· 3 months ago
This really is good news. I'm excited about the prospect of WP being poised to become the next generation of Twitteresque connectivity,... brace yourself for a new wave of plugins folks ;-)
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More importantly, since I have PubSubHubbub today, should I install RSSCloud as well or just use on of the plugins. If so, which is the better choice.
Many people talk to each other on Twitter.
So one could describe Twitter as more than just
real time status updates.
Many people also use a distributed talk system IRC
since times immemorial.
So what could anybody say about rssCloud and IRC and Twitter?
While truly RSS is still not real time yet, because rssCloud only works with RSS readers/aggregators that support rssCloud. So until the support for rssCloud has ben added to readers we can not make use of this new real time RSS.
I'm curious how search will adopt to the faster blog updates. I briefly described a search like status concept that propagates search much like any other feed and servers can reply to the query.
Um. You already can? Mashable uses FeedBurner and has Pingshot turned on, so Mashable's RSS feeds are Pubsubhubbub enabled. Any reader that supports Pubsubhubbub (for example FriendFeed) can get Mashable instantly already.
I look forward to seeing what WordPress does here, but with 7.5 million blogs, once RSS clients start supporting RSSCloud it will become a staggering engineering challenge to send out billions of notifications. I don't see how it can work.