This is great. This reminds me of 2003-04 when I was using a Radio Userland blog to automatically update another Manilla site in real-time. And the subject of my old Manila blog was real-time. This puts to rest the RSS is dead contention, and shows that Twitter and Friendfeed aren't the only real-time web players in town. And it shifts the conversation back to innovation in-and-around RSS. Dave, why did you leave that rabbit in the hat for so long?
dave
· 3 months ago
It's pretty amazing. I feel about the same way as I felt when the NY Times RSS feeds came online in 2002.
jeremy
· 3 months ago
This is REALLY awesome. I'm stoked that WP is early adopting.
Mark Essel
· 3 months ago
Congratz on the high Dave. Keep on moving and showing us how it's done. I'm trying to get my head around what this could change ( maybe I imagine too much), but near real time rss is a game changer. River2 being the real time rss reader is a game changer. Disruption of information channels. Brilliant!
NW Angel
· 3 months ago
is this the first top on the Scobleizer treasure hunt? a cloud enable blog
Is Scoble running a treasure hunt? Where? I haven't seen it.
dai_vernon
· 3 months ago
That is most excellent.
df56
· 3 months ago
I don't understand
sull
· 3 months ago
and it begins.....
nice.
Mike Cane
· 3 months ago
Now wait a minute. Is that now a feature at WordPress.com?!
Maybe I should move my blog from Blogger back to WordPress.com?
helmsb
· 3 months ago
The import feature in WordPress makes the move ridiculously easy!
Robert Lowe
· 3 months ago
Just checked the feed for my (nascent) WordPress.com blog and it, too, includes the cloud element.
I think the Internet just became even more awesome.
Chris Messina
· 3 months ago
I plead ignorance, but how does this compare/relate to PubSubHubBub? I presume this is just another flavor of the exact same thing?
dave
· 3 months ago
Th'other way around. rssCloud has been around since 2001.
Chris Messina
· 3 months ago
Ah, I guess I wasn't asking for history so much as technical differences. Of course the problem with most technologies is interoperable adoption, so it'd be nice to either protocol gain adoption and enable a better P2P push-based infrastructure to rise up.
Clarification please: is this the hosted wordpress blog (it certainly looks like it)? And I have looked around for a <cloud> tage description, without luck. So is this a XML extension that Wordpress has defined or is this a new tag for hosts that defines the resources of the cloud that will be used by the page?
dave
· 3 months ago
It's an existing part of the RSS spec, that has been there since 2001.
Dave
technogran
· 3 months ago
Is it really realtime commenting on here?
technogran
· 3 months ago
This is what we want everywhere, to be able to comment on blogs, in Forums, etc and hold real time conversations updated as we type
technogran
· 3 months ago
RSS is brilliant! I knew it had it in itself all along! Just waiting for someone to wake it up! Woohoo!
benjaminjtaylor
· 3 months ago
Your nose to the grindstone approach in the face of critics and naysayers is impressive.
dave
· 3 months ago
Thanks. Believe me, RSS has always had lots of shit thrown at it by people in the tech industry. You learn to tune it out. :-)
connectme360
· 3 months ago
Congratulations -- persistence seems to be a common theme, eh?
I sincerely wish you the best of luck in persuading the various Twitter clients - Brizzly, Hootsuite, Seesmic etc to subscribe to cloud-enabled feeds. You may need to give them a slightly bigger carrot, but the big picture is there. (Right now, I'm working on a custom short URL program for the travel industry similar to what you had accomplished with c.oy.ly. And being knee-deep in all that -- I can definitely see the need to shortlink to the most current information available.)
dave
· 3 months ago
I thought all those Wordpress blogs might be a good carrot. :-)
looppacosmos
· 3 months ago
Congratulations ,fantastic work ,and now we are sure that RSS is dead -LET HIM REST IN PEACE
This is Awesome about time the blogging platform take back what is rightfully ours, aka our real time content.
Bravo
Todd..
Thejesh GN
· 3 months ago
My feeds are pushed through feedburner so thay have inherent delay. If feedburner uses rsscloud to get the updates from my feed, that will make feedburner fast. Feedburner are you listening?
Tinus
· 3 months ago
Okay, I'm confused. I must admit I didn't read everything, but what are the differences between rsscloud and pubsubhubbub? Better name?
Mark Essel
· 3 months ago
Fantastic news, glad Matt & crew recognized the benefits of rsscloud. Now you have the entire federation to maintain Scotty!
Just got the pluggin, will snag river2 when I get home from work (iPhone is a bit of a beast to use but easy enough for clicking "install this pluggin"). Rsscloud has just gone nuclear ;)
Mark Essel
· 3 months ago
I wonder about server loads, scaling yadda yadda. Dave put out the word if you require and assistance pluggin leaks. I fully comprehend the bike ride skipping now.
think Keanu said it best "Whoa"
the ease of entry into being rsscloud friendly is pretty huge
susanbeebe
· 3 months ago
Congratulations Dave!
THANK YOU so much for developing real-time "RSSCloud" technology.
WOW, that's some very exciting stuff you've created there.
All Comments
This puts to rest the RSS is dead contention, and shows that Twitter and Friendfeed aren't the only real-time web players in town. And it shifts the conversation back to innovation in-and-around RSS.
Dave, why did you leave that rabbit in the hat for so long?
Disruption of information channels. Brilliant!
nice.
Maybe I should move my blog from Blogger back to WordPress.com?
I think the Internet just became even more awesome.
Dave
I sincerely wish you the best of luck in persuading the various Twitter clients - Brizzly, Hootsuite, Seesmic etc to subscribe to cloud-enabled feeds. You may need to give them a slightly bigger carrot, but the big picture is there. (Right now, I'm working on a custom short URL program for the travel industry similar to what you had accomplished with c.oy.ly. And being knee-deep in all that -- I can definitely see the need to shortlink to the most current information available.)
I remember this http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-...
and that :-)) http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/05/06/rss...
This is Awesome about time the blogging platform take back what is rightfully ours, aka our real time content.
Bravo
Todd..
Just got the pluggin, will snag river2 when I get home from work (iPhone is a bit of a beast to use but easy enough for clicking "install this pluggin"). Rsscloud has just gone nuclear ;)
think Keanu said it best "Whoa"
the ease of entry into being rsscloud friendly is pretty huge
THANK YOU so much for developing real-time "RSSCloud" technology.
WOW, that's some very exciting stuff you've created there.
What a boon for WP blogs! Yay!! :)
@susanbeebe
http://susanbeebe.com