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Hey Brett! It's a fully blown poc. My startup is a blog aggregator (Inkzee.com) so I wanted to lift some pressure from the polling/fetching backend. I've coded a poc that downloads the rss feed, detects that supports pshb, registers the feed and gives a callback. Then the callback responds to the hub and waits for a new item. Yesterday I tested creating a new post and sure as hell I got... more... - Alex

That's great! Be sure to read this section of the wiki about multi-homing: http://code.google.com/p... Some people have been using Hubbub as another kind of "light" ping, and it doesn't work for the reasons described there. You have to treat it as authoritative content push. Anyways, I really look forward to seeing Inkzee in action! - Brett Slatkin

Nice tips! You are right, if you use it as a ping mechanism you'll run into inconsistencies problems. In my case I want to use it as authoritative content, although I'll probably keep the polling mechanism to some extend to make sure the hub isn't down or failing. The difference will probably be the frequency. I have a question though, afaik Feedburner only publishes one hub link, wouldn't it be safer to publish at least 2 hubs? - Alex

Yes, definitely continue to poll for the sake of reliability, though hopefully with a lower frequency. The primary issue is that the delegated hubs must be trusted by the publisher to properly distribute the content (authoritatively) to all subscribers. Such a relationship isn't always easy to set up, and there are sensitive details (like publishing traffic numbers) that not every... more... - Brett Slatkin

Hey Brett, yeah I'm sure the particularities of Feedburner add a lot of complexity. About publishers not wanting to share their traffic numbers, I guess it's a tradeoff, if you want to use the protocol you'll be giving that away. Although, it shouldn't be a problem from my point of view as that only exposes the users that that particular hub has, not all of them, nor the global rss subscribers count (which btw, many blogs already disclose with the Feedburner panels on their sites). - Alex

jajaja, si, sucede... y la integración con facebook lo vuelve aún peor. - Damian

Friendfeed = Information overload 2.0 :P - Alberto Gonzalez