Hey John, tried to ping you on email but have a feeling it may have hit the spam filter. Have some ideas around deploying Salmon (within and outside of PostRank), would love to chat. Ping me on: ilya at postrank.com.
ig On Nov 23, 4:07 pm, John Panzer <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a good article, worth > referencing:http://www.technologyreview.com/web/23968/page1/ > > What's more, people are increasingly likely to discuss and interact with > > > content away from the site where it was originally posted. Grigorik studied > > 1,000 of the feeds his company has monitored for the past three years and > > found that *about 60 percent of the interactions PostRank recorded > > happened on sites other than where the content was originally posted*. "As > > a publisher or blogger, I want to see these conversations," he says. > > (emphasis mine). There's also a good clear description of how the protocol > works end-to-end: > > > For the Salmon protocol to work properly, it would need to be adopted by > > both publishers of content and services that might subscribe to or discuss > > that content. When a post appears, the publisher uses pubsubhubbub to notify > > the subscribers that it's present. Then, if a user makes a comment about the > > post on another site, the Salmon protocol sends this information back to the > > publisher. The publisher can in turn pass this comment downstream to all the > > other subscribers, keeping the conversation unified wherever it occurs. > > -- > John Panzer / Google > [email protected] / abstractioneer.org / @jpanzer
