One of the key advantages is having some kind of "control" or at least visibility on who your susbcribers are. You can also add up analytics... There are many advantages of running your own hub. I guess a good analogy would be running your own self-hosted blog, vs using an online app.
However, I agree : not everybody should run/own their hub. Today, at the RWW event Brad said he doesn't expect more than 20 hubs out there (If I understood correctly). I agree with his view, with the difference that the same hub can have several urls, and that is where Superfeedr.com enters in the game. Julien -- Julien Genestoux, http://twitter.com/julien51 http://superfeedr.com +1 (415) 254 7340 +33 (0)9 70 44 76 29 Sent from Piedmont, CA, United States On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Ravi Pinjala <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > >
