PubSubHubbub, a 20% time project of two Google engineers, Brad Fitzpatrick and Brett Slatkin, launched a few weeks ago. In addition to being a tongue-twister, PubSubHubbub is: A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom (and RSS). Parties (servers) speaking the PubSubHubbub protocol can get near-instant notifications (via webhook callbacks)… Read More
Tag: rss
Images in Feeds
Thanks to friend of the ‘Lab Patrick Wolf for pointing out that the feed versions of our posts do not reflect the same alignment of images that you see here. I’ve noticed this in the past, via OraNA, but figured it was a rathole to try to fix them. Bonus points to Patrick for providing… Read More
Why Do Feeds Fail?
Yesterday, we were meeting as a team to chat about how Connect enhancements, when Paul says he would use Connect more if he could have the activity running in Firefox via an add-on. Sounds like a good idea to me, and I’m already thinking of people who might want to tinker with an add-on, which… Read More
AppsLab FAQ: How Do You Keep Track of All This Stuff?
This is meant to be an open thread, even though I’m adding it to the FAQ series. We’re all learning this Intertubes thing as we go along, so how do you keep track of it all? More accurately, how can you possibly listen in on all the relevant conversations and filter out noise? Conversation topics… Read More
Puneet Strikes Again
The final installment in my “cool stuff from last week that I forgot to blog” series comes from our pal Puneet. He used our Google Reader OPML files (published on the About page) and his own to demonstrate three ways to view the subscriptions without a messy import into Reader or another feed reader. Behold… Read More
Oracle, delivered…
Need your daily dose of Oracle? I ran across some cool RSS feeds to keep track of what’s going on. I personally read the Corporate News and the Application News. Of course you can always add our feed as well if you’re feeling lucky. If you have other cool Oracle feeds I haven’t seen, post… Read More