The real time web is officially upon us. WordPress.com has just announced that all 10.5 million of its blogs have now gone real time.
WordPress has ventured into real time before with support for RSSCloud, but thanks to PubSubHubbub, all posts from any WordPress.com blog will appear in services like Google Reader, Bloglines, Friendfeed and Netvibes in real time.
You don’t have to be on wordpress.com to make this happen. WordPress are also announces an official plugin to enable PuSH support for any wordpress.org blog. You can download that here.
PubSubHubbub is an open protocol for distributed Publish/subscribe communication on the internet. The main purpose is to provide near-instant notifications of change updates, which would improve on the typical situation where a client periodically polls the feed server at some arbitrary interval.
For more PuSH related reading check out the PubSubHubbub project site and Google Group. And if you really want to geek out there’s always the PubSubHubbub Spec
Well, WP was real time with RSSCloud in Sept. but this is cool too :) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wordpress_…
Actually your story is incorrect — they support rssCloud as well as PubSubHubbub, so they were realtime before this addition.
funny, i was racing to amend before you commented… i lost.
funny, i was racing to amend before you commented… i lost.
That's great! They also had an unofficial hub for a big while : http://wordpress.superfeedr.com/ :D
Amended the title just for you Mr Winer.
Thanks for making the correction. Unfortunately TechMeme still has the old (incorrect) headline. Hopefully they'll recalc before too many people get the wrong idea.
I've messaged techmeme and am hoping it will change in the next few minutes. It usually checks for amendments to titles
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