mindgarden

With the new mindgarden we also started using Feedburner to get a better idea how many people are reading our feeds.

Feedburner comes with a service called PingShot and Google (who own Feedburner) have recently connected PingShot to a brand new hot thing called PubSubHubbub. PubSubHubbub, next to RSSCloud which basically does the same but different, is quite the hype recently. It was created to make RSS part of the Real Time Web. Meaning that your RSS feed is no longer passive but gets pushes to a hub which then along with all the contents of your feed pushes it on to subscribed clients (if they are capable of receiving pushed feeds).

So if you’re already using Feedburner, you can simply activate PingShot and make use of PubSubHubbub yourself.

If you want to know more about PubSubHubbub Pubsubhubbub: Feed-Push für Alle (German) does a good job in explaining the whole thing in a lot more detail.