Posts Tagged ‘Pushbutton Web’
August 10th, 2009, 3 comments
My tip on the latest episode of This Week in Google is how to enable real-time updates of your site's feed to FriendFeed (right now), and more services like Google Reader as they release support for PubSubHubbub in the future. If you missed the instructions on the podcast, here they are in bookmarkable text. It's very simple for blogs which use Feedburner for their feeds.
In Feedburner, click on the feed name you want to PSHB-enable. From the Publicize tab, click on PingShot in the left hand column of available services. Click on "activate" (see screenshot). Once this is done and your feed refreshes, you can view its source and see rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" attributes. This means that when you publish a new post, Feedburner will let the hub know, which will in turn notify subscribers in real-time. Here are these same instructions from the horse's mouth. If Feedburner's not your thing, there's also a WordPress plug-in which will do this for you.
New Tech Gets Deployed “the Web Way”
August 7th, 2009, 2 comments
Anil Dash makes the compelling argument that small incremental upgrades using easily-hackable technologies is the most effective way to get new features deployed across the web--as opposed to installing monolithic, multi-requirement software like Google Wave. When it comes to realtime-enabling sites, the Pushbutton web uses "the web way," and Google Wave will go "the Wave way." Which will succeed? Only time will tell, but these days I'm just as (if not more) excited about Pushbutton technologies I can easily turn on on my web site than Wave.
August 5th, 2009, 6 comments
There's no doubt in my mind that Anil Dash has a crystal ball stowed away somewhere at his place back in NYC. While his piece on the Pushbutton web almost two weeks ago was inspiring in concept, it's exhilarating to see it come to fruition.
(Seriously, if you haven't read his piece, GO THERE NOW: The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real. I'll wait.)
Back? With me? Good.
Tonight, Googler Mihai Parparita announces that Google Reader now sends realtime updates to FriendFeed when you share items using the PubSubHubbub protocol.
Huh-wha? you ask. Yeah, I know. It's no Google Wave. But that's what makes this exciting. This kind of small Pushbutton implementation is how real web pages will easily use existing technology to notify one another of new updates. The Google Reader/FriendFeed integration is just the first tiny step in what will be a broad deployment of realtime-enabled sites. These sites and services will let one another know when they have new data to share without the sucky inefficiencies of polling. Check out how fast FriendFeed updates when you share an item in Google Reader in this video.
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