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Re: Superfeedr Blog : Notifixlite

julien51 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:29:30 -0000

Indeed, that is one of the stuff I want to add to notifixlite. Along with offline message storing.

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Real-time RSS notifications on your iPhone

julien51 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:37:18 -0000

Sure! And wait for a few days, as AppNotifications is about to get better :)

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Post Mortem 02/11

julien51 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:16:43 -0000

Thanks... that was definetely a tough night. Please ask us anything that you want to know. We're transparent, really.

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Smacksale

julien51 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:56:31 -0000

You would need to use our PubSubHubbub API. Check that http://superfeedr.com/documentation#what_api

Building the susbcriber is pretty easy, here is a simple example with Sinatra : http://gist.github.com/217348

Re: Superfeedr Blog : EventVue's Chatter

julien51 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:46:26 -0000

Our pleasure!

Re: Superfeedr Blog : PubSubHubbub for Everybody

julien51 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:47:13 -0000

That would work if you there exist a feed url of _all_ the updates on identi.ca or wordpress. Luckily, there is one for Identica!

And yes, for the publisher part we actully use streams or APIs that are not necessarily feeds. The identica example is a good one, once again, as we use their XMPP stream for that purpose.

Re: Superfeedr Blog : PubSubHubbub for Everybody

julien51 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:07:02 -0000

Interesting. I think that would be quite easy to do actually.... But since they already use Google's hub, what would be the point? Aggregation of that data? Well, then, we could just build a regular subscriber.

Re: Using ReaTiWe like a SuperFeedr subscriber - Bloggitation

julien51 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:27:04 -0000

> from your PuSH implementation page - ..."We only allow port 80 for your callback urls"...
Doh! I just removed it... it was true initailly... sorry about that!

> In the current implementation, the subscriptions belongs to users, so they can enter what they want for a hub. Possible change is to have several hubs "preinstalled", with my account username and password on them, and everybody using my resources. Just it's not very pretty.
In terms of functionalities, it might be simpler for the user if he doesn't even knew about PubSubHubbub? Then, in that case : he subscribes to a feed... you subscribe to the corresponding hub(extracted from the feed) or to Superfeedr (if none is present). ?

We support verification tokens as well. Not sure what you mean when you say we don't support them. Maybe there is a mis-understanding on the role of verify tokens : http://groups.google.com/group/pubsubhubbub/bro...

Again, thx a lot for that great work! It's awesome!

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Real-Time web browsers

julien51 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:48:25 -0000

Hey Yann, I think we're not equiped yet, but I also think humans learn so fast... that I expect to be suprised and proven wrong pretty soon! I like your 'tag cloud' idea a lot...

Re: Superfeedr Blog : RSSCloud and PubSubHubbub

julien51 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:53:28 -0000

SuperHero! :) We really built Superfeedr to make people life's easier, glad that it works, at least a bit!

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Real-time RSS notifications on your iPhone

julien51 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:34:25 -0000

Sweet, that is why we made it :)

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Getting Stated with PubSubHubbub

julien51 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:33:28 -0000

Here is not really the best place to help. I am sending you an email to have more info.

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Getting Stated with PubSubHubbub

julien51 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:28:44 -0000

Exactly.

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Getting Stated with PubSubHubbub

julien51 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:25:38 -0000

the XMPP API offers the ability to be notified every time we fetch a feed (whether there is actually a new entry or not). This isn't the case with the PubSubHubbub AP.

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Getting Stated with PubSubHubbub

julien51 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:45:04 -0000

Sorry for being late!

Re: Clouded Email Deliverability: Startups Pay Attention!

julien51 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:26:32 -0000

I m thinking that maybe the problem is actually emails themselves ;) I mean, I'd bet a lot on the fact that we're on the eve of seeing a massive "notification" wave. Twitter has shown that services can actually rely on that to build "engagement". The iPhone's Push proved that pushing to the phones is really awesome now that people don't have to pay for SMS, and Adobe's wave is proving that pushing to the desktop is very easy and convenient as well.

Emails have been over-used for things that probably didn't need emails, I think that is changing!

Re: Superfeedr Blog : A new Architecture

julien51 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:53:49 -0000

Agreed. I think that XMPP still suffers from several problems : it looks complex, the number of applications is probably not high enough to foster innovation, and a lot of people still associate it with Instant Messaging... Hopefully these will change soon!

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Real-time cloudy thoughts from a super-hero

julien51 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:29:08 -0000

Nothing special ;) Except that you must 'push' to a hub when you update your feed!

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Scale with Chef

julien51 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:28:38 -0000

Arf... sorry for the very late response. The best place to get info and help is clearly on the #chef channel on irc.freenode.org. People are there at pretty much anytime! (well, for ops, I guess it makes sense ;))

Re: Superfeedr Blog : API changes

julien51 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:23:11 -0000

Not sure I understand what you mean by "enabled by default", but yeah, we now have a full implementation of the protocol. The only thing we add on top is HTTP basic auth.

Re: Middleware Services in the Cloud (Mashery, Gnip, Janrain et al)

julien51 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:31:03 -0000

Albert, I just booked flights for NYC and I'll be there from Sept 5th to 9th. I hope we can find the time to meet in that window. My email : julien@superfeedr.com (I couldn't find your anywhere...).

Also, I know that USV is one of Tumblr's investors. I was wondering if you could make an intro with anyone there, because I am sure Superfeedr would make sense for their 'Feeds' feature that allows users to repost their content to their Tumblr.

Waiting for your email!

PS: enjoy Europe ;)

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Make Our Logo!

julien51 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:08:39 -0000

Thanks Ahmed!

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Make Our Logo!

julien51 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:45:05 -0000

Hum, yes, there will a polling! But I'd need more designs first. Can you make your own version of this concept?

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Make Our Logo!

julien51 — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:54:18 -0000

No, I am not saying RSS is yesterday. I am saying they've been misused for many years as a "product" when they only are a technology. People don't know (and shouldn't have to know) what RSS is. However, services must use them correctly, and that is what Superfeedr helps them do ;)

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Kind of Open Source

julien51 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:22:55 -0000

Done ;) And I sent you the deck. Let me know what you think about it.