This is really cool! However, you write: > Everybody can stop talking about how PSHB > doesn't do last-mile notifications to the desktop. > This is it. It is *OK* that PSHB does *not do* "last-mile" notifications and folk who complain that it doesn't simply don't understand the issues. Notify.io may be a nice implementation of a last-mile service, however, it is simply not reasonable to suggest that this is THE way to do last-mile delivery of data streaming through PSHB. It is, in fact, simply one of many ways.
The variety of last-mile delivery requirements is vastly greater than the variety of server-to-server requirements that PSHB addresses. Additionally, the server-to-server requirements seem to be much better understood today than the last-mile requirements. Thus, while it is reasonable to standardize on a server-to-server protocol, it is not reasonable to push for a standardized last-mile protocol. Let a thousand blossoms bloom... Over time, we'll figure out what works best for last-mile... But, Notify.io is certainly a worthy exploration of the problem. bob wyman On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Jeff Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently built an epic notification service that's going to change the > web: http://notify.io > > Tonight I built a PSHB subscriber app called Feed Notifier ( > feednotifier.org) that lets you put in PSHB feed URLs and get > notifications on your desktop via notify.io ... currently as pre-alpha, > only Growl on mac is supported -- and right now you have to download a > separate client. But we're integrating directly with Growl and other > notifiers very soon. > > Everybody can stop talking about how PSHB doesn't do last-mile > notifications to the desktop. This is it. > > -- > Jeff Lindsay > http://webhooks.org -- Make the web more programmable > http://shdh.org -- A party for hackers and thinkers > http://tigdb.com -- Discover indie games > http://progrium.com -- More interesting things >
