I don't think we need them currently, but worth keeping an eye on, thanks for the heads up btw. - Luke
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Joshua Bronson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Luke, > > Think any of these services are worth investigating at this point in time? > > > ------------------------ > > From: *Randall Leeds* <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:51 PM > To: [email protected] > > > Check out this service called Superfeedr that does massive feed fetching. > The basics are: > > 1) Subscribe to a list of feeds > 2) Get notified of updates over Atom PubSub > > The obvious benefit is that it eliminates the need to build your own > polling service. > > I'm not sure it's appropriate for us to use this in place of our current > polling architecture as that might be relying too much on an external > service. Additionally, it costs money though they claim that you can tell > them "how much it costs you to parse your feeds, and *we will match this*for > you." If we can successfully quantify the costs associated with running > minibrain we could get a proposal and see if it might save money to use > Superfeedr. > > On the other hand, there's Gnip, which has been mentioned before. > > This is all maybe a waste of breath. Mostly, I want widespread Atom PubSub > and I want it now. > > -Randall > > ---------- > From: *Randall Leeds* <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM > To: [email protected] > > > > We could, for example, use Gnip to get at the wordpress firehose > ($500/month value) and make minibrain aware of wordpress feeds so it doesn't > fetch them but waits for xmpp notification from Gnip about updates. >
