+1 Exactly!
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Bob Wyman <[email protected]> wrote: > Julien, > I think your ideas are good, but I would like to suggest that one thing that > could get more people using PSHB is if we were to encourage people to think > of it as infrastructure that enables whole new kinds of applications rather > than just a improvement on the efficiency of polling for blog and microblog > updates. Frankly, the blog/micro-blog space is pretty densely occupied and > the opportunities to find and exploit under-served niches are limited or at > least hard to discover. Thus, I think that people who are looking to > successfully invest effort in the "next billion dollar idea" are likely to > be the ones that figure out how to use this infrastructure in new and, as > yet, unanticipated ways. > I am particularly excited by the ability to build real-time event driven > applications that are more focused on "structured data" events rather than > just dissemination of blobs of text. Some examples of structured objects > that could be distributed as Atom entries via PSHB: Offers-To-Sell, > Offers-To-Buy, Pricing data (i.e. products, stocks, etc.), "location" > related data, Weather data, "sensor" data of many kinds, job-openings > (Offers-To-Hire), or resumes (Offers-To-Be-Hired), updates to all kinds of > databases (semantic or otherwise), "Calendar" events, etc... But, I'm sure > I've missed the really interesting thing... > bob wyman > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Julien Genestoux > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > >
