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PubSubHubbub support for Reader shared items

Source: Google Reader

Aug 05, 2009

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Speed is very important at Google, and the Reader team is no exception. One way in which we take speed into account is to try to make consumption of feeds be as efficient as possible. We also want to make it as fast (and as easy) as possible to interact with your Reader data on the rest of the web.

We're therefore happy to announce that Reader has begun adoption of the PubSubHubbub protocol, beginning with the publishing of our shared items. All shared item pages have feeds, and now all of those feeds will ping a hub (and there's a element in them). This means that if you (as a web app developer) would like to more efficiently and quickly monitor Reader shares, you just have to subscribe at the hub to be notified of changes in real-time. If you want to learn more about PubSubHubbub and how it works, see the site and protocol definition.

One place that takes advantage of this pinging is FriendFeed. This means if you have added your shared items to your FriendFeed account, you and your friends will see them there within a few seconds the "Share" link being press

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Comments (3)

Marcel,

Aug 05, 2009

woot

Wpbasti,

Aug 07, 2009

Realtime sharing. Very cool. Google goes more and more in this direction.

Damondnollan,

Sep 10, 2009

Google Reader adopts PubSubHubBub. Designers report that Friendfeed is one example where you can see real-time in action. What about the connection between Feedburner and GR?