Ian Great email.
Can you talk us through how this works (or would work) with Youtube? For example, I was not sure what you meant by "Youtube's feeds for instance are ready to go". Cheers, alexis On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Julien Genestoux <[email protected]> wrote: > Another option (and yes, this is shameless self-promotion) would be to rely > on services like http://superfeedr.com : even if the feeds are not (yet?) > PuSH enabled we provide you with pings exactly like if they were... > Good luck! > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Ian <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What interests me the most about PSHB is the fact that I find myself >> *polling* several atom-based APIs on a very frequent basis. GData is >> probably the most salient of these APIs, but also Facebook, MySpace, >> Metacafe and several more. >> >> Currently some of these APIs are kind enough to provide Expires >> headers which give me a rough outline of just how often I have to >> poll. Some of these APIs will let me HEAD first to see whether I >> should go ahead and re-fetch, but... >> >> I'm still polling!!! >> >> I don't want to poll. I really don't want to poll when there has been >> absolutely no change to the results of the API call (which is really >> just an Atom-based feed). >> >> To put things in perspective: the suits around here are deadset on >> tracking around 2 million videos and other entities (users, producers, >> etc) by the end of the month. Right now we have to poll several times >> per day for each video/user/producer. >> >> Considering the vast number of Atom-based APIs out there (I'm looking >> at you gdata), I'd really like to see APIs/feeds making more use of >> PSHB. I can't see how this wouldn't benefit both the maintainers of >> the API as well as the users. Our traffic to these external sites >> would drop an order of magnitude, and our data would be fresher. >> Maybe even realtime some day. >> >> A lot of what I'm consuming could immediately start using PSHB. Off >> the top of my head, Youtube's feeds for instance are ready to go, as >> well as metacafe. MySpace seems to be adopting PSHB already. >> >> I think if GData lead the way, literally everyone that matters would >> follow. Imagine being able to build applications on top of GData fed >> through PSHB. I can immediately see some usefulness with the Calendar >> API, Docs API, Finance API... And if the Youtube API went this route, >> I would start using it literally same day. Blogger seems like a given >> as well. >> >> It also seems to make sense that the company pushing PSHB might also >> adopt it... > >
