I don't see the problem with each publisher being a hub. Why does there need to be a hub of hubs?
The subscribe just cares about getting a callback on new content. Who cares where it comes from? On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Bob Wyman <[email protected]> wrote: > The easy provision of white-label hubs will, of course, lead to the > creation of many more hubs than might otherwise have existed... This is > probably a good thing. But, there are issues... > > It is interesting, I think, to contemplate what the result would be if > *every* blog and feed ended up having its own hub. I don't suggest this > mental experiment because I think that we should seek to achieve such a > state of affairs, but rather because exploring the "extremes" is always a > good way to find issues with specification... > > Clearly, if every feed was its own hub, we would see a need to build "hubs > of hubs" in order to simplify the tasks of managing subscriptions, > controlling message sending patterns, achieving efficiencies through > minimization of connections, aggregation of notifications, etc. But, it > seems that doing that given the PSHB spec as it stands would not be easy. > The problem is that hub discovery depends on data which is published in the > feed itself and there exists only one class of hubs in the current spec. You > can't, for example, distinguish between a hub and a "hub of hubs"... Also, > even if a "single feed hub" were aggregated by one or more hub of hubs, it > is questionable whether the feed author would know about any of the hubs of > hubs and thus be able to mention them in the feed. > > I think there are issues here that need to be resolved... > > bob wyman > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Julien Genestoux < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> We just introduced what we call "white-label hubs" at superfeedr : >> http://blog.superfeedr.com/API/publishers/pubsubhubbub/white-label-hubs/ >> >> In a nutshell : your service can give us access to his stream/firehose and >> we'll turn that into a PubSubHubbub hub in snap! >> >> Examples : >> - A wordpress.com PubSubHubbub : http://wordpress.superfeedr.com/ >> - An Identi.ca PubSubHubbub : http://identica.superfeedr.com/ >> >> Let me know what you guys think! >> >> Ju >> >> PS: if you're at RWW's realtime event, come and chat : I am @julien51, the >> tall french guy wearing a yellow shirt, who looks a little bit tired (guess >> why!) >> >> -- >> Julien Genestoux, >> >> http://twitter.com/julien51 >> http://superfeedr.com >> >> +1 (415) 254 7340 >> +33 (0)9 70 44 76 29 >> > >
