Did Google Reader Just Turn on the Firehose?
Google’s big push recently has been on enabling open, real-time technologies to publish, read, and interact with its new service Buzz. Reader, its RSS subscription and website reading service, is one of the biggest tools to integrate with the service. So much that my Reader contacts are now my Buzz contacts. Until now, Google Reader, […]
Read more...LazyFeed Becomes First Real-Time Web Aggregator for rssCloud
Today Lazyfeed announced they had officially launched rssCloud and Pub/sub Hubbub (PSHB) support into their real-time RSS aggregator, making them the first major aggregator for rssCloud outside of Dave Winer’s own River2 client, and the first client of its type for the Web (Dave Winer’s client is written for the desktop OS). What does this […]
Read more...Facebook’s Deployment Record is Spinning but Seems Broken – Does it Need a Poke?
Facebook lately has been very good at providing regular and frequent updates to its service. So much that it has often come under the gun for updating too much to the detriment of its user experience. I have been last to critique them on this however, as I think it’s a good thing to be […]
Read more...Goodbye RSS. Welcome Real-Time Web!
A few weeks back I mentioned here that I was giving myself a whole week without a single check of my Google Reader feeds in order to see how reliant I had become on RSS, and where I could shift my priorities in order to become more productive. It’s a technique I tried last year […]
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