Imagine you blog & everybody is reading!

I was - like many - starting to ask questions if the polling feeds concept will scale - the more services and people are starting to use personal aggregators services like Tumblr and FriendFeed. I guess this presentation was a tipping point and call for action - that caused a wide-spread discussion and solution proposals interesting to follow.

I used the opportunity of the BlogCamp Zürich to create a presentation providing an overview of the challenge and explaining some of the possible solutions.



The links/sites mentioned during the presentation

Posted by Cedric at 8/31/2008 11:20:00 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

End of August - a Barcamp-style unconference focused on blogging related topics will be held in Zürichs Technopark. More information and sign-up at blogcamp.ch. Although the conference agenda is only made on the day of the event - some people choose to pre-announce the topic they want to talk about. Check the (Un)agenda.

Last year I talked about the Geoweb.

This time I going to contemplate about the push vs. poll concept. The meltdown of Twitter, the aggregation galore of Friendfeed et al and the iPhone "push" features revived discussion if the breathless polling for updates is the right way forward.

Todays web architecture (HTTP, HTML) already offers simple techniques to reduce polling and provide near-realtime updates. Newer concepts have emerged - one example being Comet. I plan to provide some insight on todays issue - an overview of techniques (simplified - no coding skills required ;-) and show examples in the (micro-)blogging world.

Feel free to join the discussion - see you there.

Posted by Cedric at 8/17/2008 06:08:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post