January 2010
4 posts
Who Implemented PubSubHubbub →
Exactly like last month, here is a list of domains for which we have callback urls : they implemented PubSubHubbub!
Let’s start with the new kids in the room, who were not in the list last…
Publisher Callback Extension to PubSubHubbub →
Superfeedr now hosts several hubs. We had discussion with a lot of data publishers, including blog platforms, but also social network and regular “media” sites.
All of the people with whom we…
XML-RPC Ping to PubSubHubbub →
Slow blogging these days, but we’re still (more than ever!) crushing it :) XML-RPC ping is the grand father of all ping mechanisms for feeds and blogs. There are a few famous ping servers,…
Scaling Superfeedr →
I’d like to start this post by wishing everybody a wonderful 2010 year, and a great 2nd decade of this millennium.
We will remember these early days are pretty hectic, here at Superfeedr. As a…
December 2009
7 posts
“A prime example is something like Superfeedr. Julien of Superfeedr came to...”
– What startups are looking for in services they use - Arthur Chang
Feedoor and Superfeedr →
Earlier this month Mamod sent me a notice saying that they enabled real-time feeds management to any website or blog (See Arabcrunch) used through Feedoor.
Mamod was kind enough to create…
Who Implemented PubSubHubbub →
PubSubHubbub is now more or less 6 months old. We have daily talks with people who wonder whether they should implement it in their feeds.
Obviously, it matters for publishers to know who will…
Superfeedr Integration With Feedoor →
Typcut - GluFactory →
Results of the contest →
A little over 3 weeks ago we announced a contest to win a free ticket for LeWeb. The goal was to create an application that uses our Rivers.
A few apps were submitted and I want to thank…
The Real-time Web and it's future →
Marshall have been kind enough, when he wrote the ReadWriteWeb report on the Real-time to ask for my opinion. I want to complete my thoughts as well as give a few hint on this report.
First…
November 2009
4 posts
State of Real-Time feeds →
As promised last month, here is a small update on the real-time feeds market.
First, I’d like to insist on the method we use to collect these statistics. For each feed, we always try to…
Thanks →
Today is the probably the most symbolic holiday here in the US. It’s about saying : Thank You!
Thank you Stephan, thank you to each and everyone of our users, thank you to our advisors and…
Added Title to Feed Info →
We just pushed a small code update (it should be fully deployed within minutes) to our schema. Of course, this is fully downward compatible.
This has been one of the earliest feature requests that…
We're shutting down.
It’s a tough decision that we made, but a much needed one. The amount of work involved with Superfeedr is big enough so that we unfortunately have no more to maintain and improve Notifixious.
We hate having a service out there that is not maintain and people asking for help with it and not being able to do so.
At the same time, Superfeedr is growing and more and more services built with...
September 2009
6 posts
Time vs. Space : how do we apprehend information? →
There are several ways information comes to us, but they are either mostly either geographical or temporal.
By geographical, I mean that we basically lay-out information and draw…
The New Atom Schema is up! →
We deployed yesterday a new code for our parsers, and it now includes a more complete schema that will allow you to do a lot more things with superfeedr!
Content or summary?
Up until now we were…
Real-time RSS notifications on your iPhone →
I have always been a great fan of the iPhone (I had mine on June 29th 2007 : iPhone D-day), but I haven’t found many applications that were making good use of the “notification” feature that Apple…
The little lie about Real-time Data →
It is very exciting to see all the jazz about real-time data being available. It is however a little disappointing that the RSS vs. Atom war is starting again through the PubSubHubbub vs….
What API to choose →
Superfeedr is technology-agnostic, which means that we don’t force you into any API. We use standards so that our users aren’t locked in any way to our service. However, being agnostic doesn’t…
Getting Stated with PubSubHubbub →
To my knowledge, Superfeedr is the only non-google PubSubHubbub out there. Let’s see why and how to use it.
Why using PubSubHubbub?
Superfeedr provides 2 API. Here are some reasons why you’d…
August 2009
2 posts
Real-time search →
Yes, I am pissed off I am not at Foo Camp, but I am working to be there next year, bear with me. I really wish I could be there because I think we’re making the term “real-time web” as the new…
A new Architecture →
No post for almost 2 weeks : we’ve been incredibly busy. We had a lot of instability in the past 10 days, in conjonction (but not related) to significant API changes. We’d like to apologize for…
July 2009
1 post
Time goes By...
And this blog will probably not be updated for a while! Please check out new adventures at Superfeedr on our blog.
April 2009
2 posts
The Superfeedr needs some testers!
The past few weeks, we’ve been very busy working on the Superfeedr. And we’re proud to say that things are getting close to what we could call a first public beta!
Basically if you have feeds to parse on the web, but you don’t want to spend resources (cpu time, bandwith etc…) but you still want realtime notifications, who are looking for you!
Superfeedr is a massive...
SMS Channel fixed!
Hey, as one of our users reported yesterday we had problems with sending Text Mesasges. Not all users have been affected, but anyway, it is now fixed. So if you had not received a confirmation phrase or some notifications… You will now ;)
March 2009
6 posts
Little lag...
Hey, we’re down in SxSW and it seems that Notifixious is enjoying this a lot… and has some lag in taking care of the events, so we have a little lag, here, but we’re on it and this whould be fixed by noon PST!
Sorry for that…
Five Sites that Let You Experience the Real-Time... →
Notifixous is back!
… Ouf… I need to breath a little bit… As you might have probably noticed, Notifixious is now back and running. There are still a few hic-cups to be expected since you can’t really restart a massive feed parsing application in a few clicks, but we’re getting to it.
These last 2 days have probably been the toughest since I started Notifixious and I’d never though...
On the way to recovery
This has been an incredibly 24hrs… but I’ll come back to it soon. We have been able to recover all of our database! Yay! We are now working on restoring the service and, obviously, increasing our fault tolerance. It will probably take another 24hours (as we don’t want to rush at all, to make sure we’re doing things right now), but the baseline is : your data is safe...
Big database problem : Notifixious down for at...
As usual it’s on Sundays that big problems happen. This morning at about 7AM our Amazon EC2 instance which runs our database server got down. We tried to reboot it, without any success… we checked the backup and of course, it is corrupted. This is a terrible news. We are trying all we can to restore things ASAP but we might have to wait a few hours to see Notifixious back.
We’re...
February 2009
8 posts
Notifixious releases Babylon
One of the most common reason why people say they don’t want to use XMPP is the lack of tools to create applications. At Notifixious, we’re using XMPP a lot, and we had to create something to use it better and well, so we created a little Framework in Ruby that will help you create easily XMPP Component applications. It is called Babylon, and you can find it on my Github.
Please, feel...
Notifixious' new "Twitter-Pitch"
Back in the days, people used to say that a pitch should be short enough for an elevator “trip”. Well, Twitter is changing this : a Pitch should fit in 140 characters! What do you think of this one :
We send you messages (emails, SMS, IM…) from your favorite websites (blogs, web services, social networks…) when they have new content!
And we even have an...
Gathering all your "friends" with Notifixious
We recently fixed our OPML import and added a secret FOAF import for Notifixious!
If you’re like me and have account on LiveJournal, Twitter, Facebook, Identica, Seesmic, Tumblr… and a RSS reader, then you probably have too much interfaces to monitor!
Notifixious allows you very easily to group all these subscriptions and receive it by Email, or Instant Messaging!
First, you need to...
“Wouldn’t it be great if Facebook status updates could funnelled into status...”
– Thinking Aloud » Blog Archive » Facebook Status Updates via Instant Messenger
Notifixious off the line for a few minutes
We are pushing a new version of the code with lots of improvments and bug fixes… mainly in the background though.The most obvious point should be an increased speed!
And yes, we’re working on improving our workflow so that we don’t have to take the website down each time we update our code. Hopefully, this should be one of the vary last times.
Thanks for your patience, and...
The Jason Salas Experience: 7 Questions for... →
Late...
Notifixious is experiencing a little lag in notifying messages from the last 8 hours… The lag should however be down to 3 minutes withing the next hour. We’re very sorry for that, and we’ve been working on tests the last week and will continue this week to improve our reliability.
Thanks for your patience
Doing Feeds correctly
Is there any service online which doesn’t support RSS or Atom? Probably not any which is interesting. Unfortunately, however, a lot of services who offer them are not doing it correctly, or at least in a manner that is usable/undertsandable by users. Want to see example?
Here is my Flickr feed : The title is “Uploads by Julien Genestoux”, which seems to make sense. However...
January 2009
11 posts
UserAgent spoofing
I don’t know about you, but I think it’s not appropriate that websites “block” some of their users based on their UserAgent. UserAgents are a “signature” that your web browser sends to the websites they visit to tell them what softaware they are. Yes, it’s like this that your online banking service can tell you to “Safari is not a supported browser,...
“Welcome to you all ReadWriteWeb readers! You’ve been an incredible number...”
– Notifixious’ Superfeeder: Getting Closer to the Real-Time Web - ReadWriteWeb
How can we do a realtime web?
There is no more doubt that a huge piece of the internet is going to switch from a “asynchronous” “pulled” mechanism to a “synchronous” “push” and “real-time” paradigm.
This will happen sooner or later, but, as Twitter (for example) proves, this move will probably not be pushed from “the big guys” . Why? Because they spent so...
A new Notifixious
Notifixious will be “offline” for a few minutes this afternoon… time for us to deploy the a brand new version, with a lot of new features, improvments and bug fixes!
Among them :
- A faster than ever ability to discover new content that you want to be notified from
- Ability to import OPML files (and export as well!)
- Easier confirmation links
Like always, feel free to...
@julien51 is organizing the first XMPP meetup in... →
Notifixious gets its Notifications via XMPP
The superfeeder is a wonderful tool to parse thousands of ATOM and RSS feeds in a short time. However, it is still polling these feeds which is not real-time.
That is why we are now working on getting the pushed data from various we services. Among them push technologies, we have the ATOM stream (that we use for sixapart’s blogs) but there is also XMPP!
As of now, Notifixious is able to...
Full and real "Real Time" Notification for all the...
At Notifixious, we believe that real-time is more than just a feature : conversations happen in real-time, not with a 2 hours lag!
For that we’re constantly working on improving our service to detect faster new items you care about and today, we’re proud to announce that we can detect entries on any Vox and Typepad blog instantaneously. As soon as the blogger hits the...
[FR] NOTIFIXIOUS - Julien Genestoux: “Ici, il y a... →
News from the Superfeeder!
One of the key parts of Notifixious is what we call our Superfeeder! It’s basically a big feed reader that is in charge of detecting new stories as soon as they’re published. It’s also been our main focus in the past weeks. We just fixed a nasty bug (date parsing for the curious) there that prevented some sources to be updated. Also, I am amazed by the number of people that use...
iMessenger talks about Notifixious →