Pretty awesome response to my email from Julien at superfeedr: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Julien Genestoux <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 19:19 Subject: Superfeedr To: [email protected]
Hey Randall, I have seen you messages on http://www.openplans.org/projects/melkjug/lists/melkjug-development-list/archive/2009/06/1244069539695/forum_view about superfeedr I am actually superfeedr's creator, so I think I can try to reply some of your questions as well. I tried to subscribe to the ML to answer there couldn't find how :/ You said you're not sure it's appropriate for you to use an external service. I can't really say anything against that. I can only point to a few of the great advanatges that we offer : - faster polling that you could probably do - nothing to build/maintain - standardization of the format... - cheaper. You mentionned you were scared about the cost it might incur. I'd like first to point that it's free if you stay below 10k feeds. Also, to prove that we can actually deliver "cost matching", I am going to tell you about our business model. Right now, let's assume that there are 100 services around here that are polling/parsing 10.000 feeds all around. Among them they have probably a lot of shared feeds. It costs them X in BW (bandwidth) and CPU. Which means that they have a "budget" per feed of X/10000? Right? What we are offering is actually 'syndication' : we can do the same as everybody does, and charge everybody for less than what they pay (we start at $.0005 per entry). If these 1000 services use us, we actually have a 1000 times bigger budget for each feed, which means we can actually poll more often, and add more features (like the XMPP from WP, that we're actually polling... etc)... in the end, by using and supporting our service, not only you will probably pay less, but you would also get a better quality feed polling module. Think about it! We're really here to help developers all around and stop the non-sense of having everybody polling and parsing the same feeds all over again. Also, by being a bigger 'middleware', we can actually negotiate more widely with every service around here to get AtomPub and then push to you! We just launched (last week) and we're really taking as much feedback that we can. I'd love to have yours. Feel also free to tell me more about minibrain and how you think you could use superfeedr. We already have a few wrappers to actually start using our service in a few minutes. Check this gist : http://gist.github.com/125161 Thanks a lot for your response! (Feel free to post that on the ML as well) Julien -- Julien Genestoux, http://twitter.com/julien51 http://superfeedr.com +1 (415) 254 7340 +33 (0)9 70 44 76 29
