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Google is trumpeting a new messaging protocol it insists on calling PubSubHubbub. Brett Slatkin - a software engineer on Google’s App Engine team - demonstrated the protocol this week at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. It aims to turn RSS and Atom into real-time content delivery mechanisms - and maybe even revamp Google search …

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  1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge
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    Bravo ...and Encore. But Beware the Red Rag Flagged Bull Cornered in a Wily Ole Live Fox :-)

    PubSubHubbub ...... urVirtual Personal Newspaper ...... urVPN. Mr Murdoch, for one, will not be well pleased with yet further Innovative Executive Erosion of Novel Content Supply for the Power of Control.

    Google does like to Play IMPudent Hardball, doesn't it. How very refreshing and exciting and enlightening IT can be.

  2. Anonymous Coward
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    ...some fat tube of the Internet

    Hey, or how about a SERIES of tubes?

    Oh, hang on...

  3. Steve Sutton
    FAIL

    ...but how will this work?

    perhaps like this?

    To: majordomo@google.com

    subscribe PubSubHubbub

    subscribe other-great-ideas-brought-to-you-by-google

    subscribe 80's-technology

    end

    Wow, I think google have just invented the mailing list.

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