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In each generation a stack has emerged, and secure messaging has been key to that stack. The names change and the scale of the prize and challenges certainly changes, but the basic issue remains the same: delivering messages reliably and quickly. In this post, we trace the steps from the second generation to the third generation to see how the real-time Web might play out. Generation 2's Winner: The Teknekron Information Bus Story I worked with the technology's second generation.
Where Is the Real-Time Web Message Bus?
3 Models of Value in the Real Time Web
Parties (servers) speaking the PubSubHubbub protocol can get near-instant notifications (via webhook callbacks) when a topic (feed URL) they're interested in is updated. The protocol in a nutshell is as follows: An feed URL (a "topic") declares its Hub server(s) in its Atom or RSS XML file, via .

