Ciao!
A few days ago I was reminded of what initially happend with OpenID.
Everybody thought it was great, and, after some time, a lot of services
became providers but not so many of them became consumers. It has changed,
but I believe we still have a very high producer/consumer ratio.
Today, I am mostly concerned that PubSubHubbub is kind of following the same
curve. We pretty much have all the big blogging plateforms using
PubSubHubbub, we have several and services like feedburner make this quite
ubiquitous for other feeds.
The "consumer" part is also quite impressive, but I would argue that it is a
little bit less strong. Of course, Google represents a massive subscriber
but we need more. My question is relatively simple : how could we get more
subscribers to adopt PubSubHubbub?
I think there are 2 things we should work on :
1) Find what are the key decision factors for which someone should adopt
PubSubHubbub (or not!).
I believe we should ask to those who implementation. I see obvious
advantages : bandwidth savings, realtime, federation synchronization...
2) List all the apps who massively poll feeds and maybe try to get in touch
with all of these guys to see how we could convince them to use
PubSubHubbub.
Maybe we should ask those services who host a lot of feeds to check
their HTTP logs and see what are the UserAgents polling their feeds? I know
for example that the following companies do poll feeds : LinkedIn, Tumblr,
Facebook, Netvibes, ... but I'm pretty sure there is a ton of other smaller
services too.
What do you guys think?
Julien
