What a crazy name! Anyway, the idea is much cooler than what the name is. Basically, what Pubsubhubbub does is it enable your blog to broadcast your new blog posts as you publish them. Instead of aggregators like Afrigator periodically fetching and processing your feed, you tell Afrigator “HEY! Listen up! I’ve written something new and here it is.”
A lot of services uses it nowadays and it is gaining traction. If you’re on blogger/blogspot or wordpress.com you needn’t worry about it as they have already enabled it for those platforms. If you are on a self hosted wordpress blog, I suggest you check out the awesome wordpress plugin called PuSHPress. Install it now! It would be worth it ;)
Oh and here is a video explaining it in a cool way.
Note: I’m going to churn quite a bit of posts to test our Afrigator implementation of Pubsubhubbub.
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