https://nostuff.org/archive/tags/atom/ Recent content in Atom on nostuff.org archive | Chris Keene Hugo en-gb Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:51:37 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2009/pubsubhubbub-instant-rss-and-atom/ Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:51:37 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2009/pubsubhubbub-instant-rss-and-atom/ <p>I have just come across <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/">PubSubHubbub</a> via <a href="http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/07/11/pubsubhubbub-realtime-rss-and-atom-feeds/">Joss Winn’s Learning Lab blog</a> at the University of Lincoln.</p> <p>It’s a way for RSS/Atom feed consumers (feed readers etc) to be instantly updated and notified when an RSS is updated.</p> <p>In a nutshell, the RSS publisher notifies a specific hub when it has a new item. The hub then notifies – instantly – any subscribers who have requested the hub to contact them when there is an update.</p>