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Jeff Lindsay
Nov 6, 2009, 5:21:49 AM11/6/09
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I recently built an epic notification service that's going to change the web: http://notify.io
Tonight I built a PSHB subscriber app called Feed Notifier (feednotifier.org) that lets you put in PSHB feed URLs and get notifications on your desktop via notify.io ... currently as pre-alpha, only Growl on mac is supported -- and right now you have to download a separate client. But we're integrating directly with Growl and other notifiers very soon.
Everybody can stop talking about how PSHB doesn't do last-mile notifications to the desktop. This is it.
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Jeff Lindsay
http://webhooks.org -- Make the web more programmable
http://shdh.org -- A party for hackers and thinkers
http://tigdb.com -- Discover indie games
http://progrium.com -- More interesting things
Tonight I built a PSHB subscriber app called Feed Notifier (feednotifier.org) that lets you put in PSHB feed URLs and get notifications on your desktop via notify.io ... currently as pre-alpha, only Growl on mac is supported -- and right now you have to download a separate client. But we're integrating directly with Growl and other notifiers very soon.
Everybody can stop talking about how PSHB doesn't do last-mile notifications to the desktop. This is it.
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Jeff Lindsay
http://webhooks.org -- Make the web more programmable
http://shdh.org -- A party for hackers and thinkers
http://tigdb.com -- Discover indie games
http://progrium.com -- More interesting things
Alexis Richardson
Nov 6, 2009, 5:31:04 AM11/6/09
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Nice work Jeff!
Brett Slatkin
Nov 6, 2009, 5:36:24 AM11/6/09
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Awesome!
Bob Wyman
Nov 6, 2009, 12:36:57 PM11/6/09
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This is really cool! However, you write:
> Everybody can stop talking about how PSHB
> doesn't do last-mile notifications to the desktop.
> This is it.
It is OK that PSHB does not do "last-mile" notifications and folk who complain that it doesn't simply don't understand the issues. Notify.io may be a nice implementation of a last-mile service, however, it is simply not reasonable to suggest that this is THE way to do last-mile delivery of data streaming through PSHB. It is, in fact, simply one of many ways.
It is OK that PSHB does not do "last-mile" notifications and folk who complain that it doesn't simply don't understand the issues. Notify.io may be a nice implementation of a last-mile service, however, it is simply not reasonable to suggest that this is THE way to do last-mile delivery of data streaming through PSHB. It is, in fact, simply one of many ways.
The variety of last-mile delivery requirements is vastly greater than the variety of server-to-server requirements that PSHB addresses. Additionally, the server-to-server requirements seem to be much better understood today than the last-mile requirements. Thus, while it is reasonable to standardize on a server-to-server protocol, it is not reasonable to push for a standardized last-mile protocol. Let a thousand blossoms bloom... Over time, we'll figure out what works best for last-mile... But, Notify.io is certainly a worthy exploration of the problem.
bob wyman
Jeff Lindsay
Nov 6, 2009, 1:05:02 PM11/6/09
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Alright, calm down. I wasn't that serious. I'm quite aware of the philosophical approach of PSHB.
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