Hey, Can you build a demo with google buzz's json format timeline?
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Brett Slatkin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > Just posted this, would love to get some feedback from the > PubSubHubbub and ActivityStreams communities. Thanks! > > -Brett > > ------------------ > > http://www.onebigfluke.com/2010/11/pubsubhubbub-for-arbitrary-content.html > > > PubSubHubbub for arbitrary content. > > Not to be outdone by Superfeedr's launch of JSON PubSubHubbub support, > I have now pushed what we're calling "arbitrary content" support in > the PubSubHubbub reference codebase and server. > > What does that mean? Any web resource that is self-describing can now > be pushed via PubSubHubbub using the demo hub. For example, if you > publish an ActivityStreams JSON resource you can now make it real-time > with PubSubHubbub. > > We've been working towards this for a while. Monica fleshed out most > of the proposal, with helpful contributions from Martin. The > "turduckin" problem still exists for resource types that rely on > headers for correctness, but luckily the most useful formats thus far > (RSS, Atom, ActivityStreams JSON, hAtom) are self-describing, so this > is not a show-stopper. The next step is to codify this behavior (and > Superfeedr's functionality) into a spec that builds on the > PubSubHubbub core. > > Some other fun side-effects: > - The reference hub will pass through non-RSS/Atom content without any > modification, including data like JPEGs and binary content > - People who have subscribed to an HTML resource will now get an HTML > payload delivered to them; that means people like Tantek who want to > use hAtom in their HTML can make their hAtom real-time > - Feeds with charsets like EUR-JP will now get pushed to subscribers, > though the hub codebase makes no attempt to do feed-entry diffing, > since it cannot parse the XML > - Facebook's real-time API is one step closer to being another > implementor of the PubSubHubbub spec > > Try it out and let us know how it goes! > -- Stay hungry,Stay foolish. Twitter: http://twitter.com/lookon | Buzz: http://www.google.com/profiles/areyoulookon | Blog: http://throw-dice.appspot.com
