Home >  Archive >  2010 >  March >  9


 

Previous / Next

A nice boost for rssCloud

By Dave Winer on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 5:36 PM.

A picture named santa.gifIt's been a while since we could announce new major support for rssCloud, but today is one of those big days we'll remember for a long time.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Status.net has now enabled rssCloud support in the RSS 2.0 feeds for all its users.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

This means that identi.ca, the server operated by status.net, has the feature, as well as all other sites they operate. I assume it will be baked into a subsequent open source release (status.net is GPL software). Permanent link to this item in the archive.

What does this mean? Well, when I post an update to my account on identi.ca, any cloud-aware aggregator will receive an update notification. River2, the aggregator I've built for Frontier (it runs in the OPML Editor) has support for rssCloud. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

For a demo here's a screen shot of an update I posted to identi.ca. Note the time of the update. I immediately refreshed the home page of my River2 server, and there's the update. Elapsed time ==> 12 seconds. That's what real time means. <img src="> Permanent link to this item in the archive.

This is my feed. A source screen shot shows the <cloud> element. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

It's also a holy grail for the idea of a distributed loosely-coupled network of Twitter-like services, linked together in real time using RSS. (What a mouthful!) It's very elegant and lightweight and it works today.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.




  
About the author

A picture named dw.jpgDave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.

One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.

"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.

Contact me

scriptingnews1mail at gmail dot com.

Facebook

Twitter

Friendfeed

This is a test
United States
West

California

Oregon

Washington

Seattle

Spokane

Walla Walla

Hawaii

Alaska

East

New York

South

Louisiana

My sites
Recent stories

Twitter links

My 40 most-recent Twitter links, ranked by number of clicks.

AFP news pic

Calendar

March 2010
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
  

Feb   Apr

To-Do

The to-do and done lists are now part of the Change Notes page on scripting.com.


A picture named xmlMini.gif


© Copyright 1997-2010 Dave Winer. Last update: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 at 2:14 AM Eastern. Last build: 7/10/2010; 2:45:25 PM. "It's even worse than it appears." RSS feed for Scripting News


Previous / Next