pubhubsubhub – Prospective Search with XMPP Delivery
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
pubhubsubhub is a data (news) aggregator which can deliver your “topics of your interests” to you as Instant Messages.
You can almost consider it as an RSS Reader with the convenience of an IM.
Anytime I come up with (or come across an) idea, if it’s Web applicable, Google’s App Engine has been the platform of my choice. While glancing through the SDK Documents I came across Prospective Search and further more reading landed me on the XMPP.
Long story short, after reading through the docs and looking at a few samples, pubhubsubhub is born to possibly turn into something more than a news aggregator which is capable of delivering the subscribed topics (search results) as instant messages.
It is quite neat with Adium plus Growl notifications. While on GTalk widget in GMail, I’d recommend to have the pubhubsubhub popped out.
Currently, the search data is coming from approximately 1000 sources with high recent-popularity. That’s why I personally find it very useful to keep an eye on the recent / trending events.
