On: Twine: Listen to your world, talk to the Internet

[Fargren]

This could work great with ifttt http://ifttt.com/

[jsilence → Fargren]

I really wish services like this would use and promote pubsubhubbub (https://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/) instead of constantly polling the sources.

As it was said in a discussion here in HN a couple of says ago ("Welcome to the new web"), RSS and Atom feeds are becoming less and less supported. Which is a sad and bad thing with regard to the internet of things that is to come with Twine and GreenGoose and Arduino/xbee/sensors.

The appropriate protocols are there. Please use them.

[bryanh → jsilence]

We're doing a similar startup (https://zapier.com/) and would love to use pubsubhubbub, but most API's don't stream, so we resort to polling... again.

It's unfortunate, and something we'd like to work towards changing.

[lightcatcher → jsilence]

pubsubhubbub doesn't have privacy/authentication/authorization mechanisms as part of the protocol, so creating near real-time push APIs isn't just as simple as using some pubsubhubbub library. I think its the complexity of coming up with one's own auth system that stops a lot of people from using pubsubhubbub. However, it is pretty awesome for things that are published to everyone.