Pubsubhubbub News & Articles

Some say Twitter has replaced the need for RSS feeds, but we think they’ve still got some life left in them. Seemingly on the same page, WordPress.com (news, site) now supports PubSubHubbub (PuSH), a service that "pushes" updates from the 10.5 million WordPress.com blogs to RSS readers in near real-time.  

So, Tumblr went real-time last week. Cool.

Now the blogging platform’s 2.5 million users can send up-to-the-second alerts to any service that supports the popular PubSubHubbub publish/subscribe protocol for near real time notifications.

The added support for PubSubHubbub (can you say that ten times fast?) proves two things:

1. Tumblr’s got its dukes up. Heavy competitors like Blogger and Posterous (which both added support for PubSubHubbub earlier this year) look like they’re in for a worthy fight.
2. Real-time is still headlining our Web experience.

Twitter has certainly captured the real-time Web arena's attention in a big way, but PubSubHubbub-enabled feeds are also beginning to make their mark.  Clients utilizing them receive pings immediately after a post has been published. This is golden compared to standard RSS feeds which, as you probably know, poll at defined intervals

PubSubHubbub -- An Overview

FriendFeed, FeeBurner, Netvibes, LiveJournal and Lazyfeed are just a few more examples of the growing PubSubHubbub fan base, so if you're not in the know already, you might want to get familiar. 

There's always hype around the web and related technologies. If it's not Web 2.0 then it's Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or any number of new protocols, trends and standards that have someone convinced that a massive paradigm change is just around the corner.

As you might fear, there's a new kid on the block: the Pushbutton Web. How is this any different from the point and click web we already know so well? Read on.