DigiTalikko. WordPress Enters Real-Time: 7.5 Million Blogs Reach Twitter Spee. RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, helps you stream all of your news and blog sources into an easy-to-manage RSS reader such as Google Reader. Millions of people use RSS to keep up with Mashable, The New York Times, and even LOLcats. However, it does have its limitations. The big one is speed. It can take minutes to hours for a blog post to reach the reader through RSS. Now WordPress has done something big that eliminates that RSS delay problem and brings Wordpress.com's 7.5 million blogs into real-time, along with any other self-hosted Wordpress blog. RSSCloud and WordPress.com Wordpress founder Matt Mullengweg explained the blog network's newfound support for RSSCloud in a blog post earlier today. Right now how most people interact with feeds is by checking that it updated every now and then, usually about once an hour.
While RSSCloud has been around for a while, Wordpress's support of the element is nothing short of monumental. Wordpress May Be Realtime, but RSS Isn't Quite Yet. Web Analytics Blog | Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Sula Pinta. RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters.
For Content Publishers and Webmasters This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. It also includes information on a similar format called Atom. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies. It is not meant to be exhaustive; for more information, see the ‘More Information about RSS’ section. Introducing RSS Think about all of the information that you access on the Web on a day-to-day basis; news headlines, search results, “What’s New”, job vacancies, and so forth.
Most people need to track a number of these lists, but it becomes difficult once there are more than a handful of sources. RSS is an XML-based format that allows the syndication of lists of hyperlinks, along with other information, or metadata, that helps viewers decide whether they want to follow the link. What’s in a feed? A feed contains a list of items or entries, each of which is identified by a link. No! <? <? Atom.