WordPress.com Now Has PubSubHubbub Protocol

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RSS feeds are pretty out dated when you have things like digg and Twitter, isn’t? That is what most of people might think, but what about those who still believe is old but gold technology? These people keep working to upgrade and find ways to get fastest news in real-time means. Well, for them WordPress now has PubSubHubbub (PuSH), an open protocol that is designed to get a feed to subscribers as quick as possible, which is in terms of seconds. The protocol has been getting support and WordPress.com has just announced that it has enabled it for all 10.5 million blogs it hosts, a huge step forward for PuSH.

Joseph Scott of WordPress.com explains -

From the tongue twisting name department we welcome PubSubHubbub, or as some people have shortened it to: PuSH. Like rssCloud, PuSH is a way for services that subscribe to updates from your blog (think Google Reader, Bloglines or Netvibes) to get updates even faster,

“In most cases these updates are sent out within a second or two of when you hit the publish button. Today we’ve turned on PuSH support for the more than 10.5 million blogs on WordPress.com. There’s nothing to configure, it’s working right now behind the scenes to help others keep up to date with your posts,” he added.

It means is that feed subscribers to any the blogs hosted by WordPress.com would get reported instantaneously when there is something new posted on their favorite blog with the help of PuSH. The new feature is by now live, so WordPress.com users can start taking advantage of it. If you’re hosting your own blog using WordPress software, you can install the new PuSHPress plugin to get access to the same functionality.

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