Alright, calm down. I wasn't that serious. I'm quite aware of the philosophical approach of PSHB.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Bob Wyman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- 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
