Are there any actual advantages to running your own hub? Unless there are some really good ones, I don't see hub proliferation becoming a problem.
--Ravi Bob Wyman 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] <mailto:[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 <http://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 > >
