Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Social Software
Tumblr starts pushing real-time updates via PubSubHubbub
Tumblr, the fast-growing lightweight blogging platform, is constantly adding new features. Tumblr's latest move is to start pushing users' blog updates in real time, using PubSubHubbub (try saying that 10 times fast). Tumblr's real-time will be powered by Superfeedr, which is the same service used by Tumblr competitor Posterous.This is more of a step for the future than a right-now sort of thing, because most RSS readers don't support PubSubHubbub yet. To get these fancy new real-time updates, instead of the old-fashioned RSS ones, you can use Friendfeed, Lazyfeed, or the new Netvibes Wasabi. With PubSubHubbub, you get new updates immediately, instead of checking for them at intervals or having to reload manually.
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Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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NyaR said 3:29PM on 12-11-2009
I wish I could selfhost tumblr...
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Mikky said 6:21AM on 12-13-2009
It would be a nice feature, but why would they go to all the trouble? The site is growing like crazy already. Just look at their traffic: http://www.sitereport.org/Tumblr.com IMO they have a great plan already.
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m said 12:15PM on 12-14-2009
NyaR: Try Chyrp. I myself have built a tumblelog theme for wp, replicating what tumblr is doing, using php. I want to have higher control of my data.
Mikky: No they don't. They make zero money from the site as this point.
They don't have a business model.
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