I have very big news. This morning I have signed the contract with my new employer. From January I will be joining the Google Webmaster Team at the London office.
Needless to say, I am thrilled to have this opportunity and I am looking forward to joining the team in the new year. There are a lot of great things coming from Google lately and the prospect of being able to play a part in this is fantastic. I can honestly say that I’ve never been this excited about a new job.
Unfortunately every new job also means the end of an old one and so I’m sad to say good bye to all the great people at eConversions It’s only been a little less than a year since I started working there and I will miss them all.
With the new mindgarden we also started using Feedburner to get a better idea how many people are reading our feeds.
Feedburner comes with a service called PingShot and Google (who own Feedburner) have recently connected PingShot to a brand new hot thing called PubSubHubbub. PubSubHubbub, next to RSSCloud which basically does the same but different, is quite the hype recently. It was created to make RSS part of the Real Time Web. Meaning that your RSS feed is no longer passive but gets pushes to a hub which then along with all the contents of your feed pushes it on to subscribed clients (if they are capable of receiving pushed feeds).
So if you’re already using Feedburner, you can simply activate PingShot and make use of PubSubHubbub yourself.
If you want to know more about PubSubHubbub Pubsubhubbub: Feed-Push für Alle (German) does a good job in explaining the whole thing in a lot more detail.
Wie Peter schon auf seinem Blog berichtet hat wird Google wohl bald seine eigene Schnittstelle für soziale Netzwerke veröffentlichen.
Spannend dabei ist, dass sie einen Haufen anderer Anbieter mit ins Boot geholt haben. Potentiell könnte dass endlich beenden, dass jeder in seinem eigenen Silo sitzt und nicht mit Nutzern anderer Platformen kommunizieren kann.
http://blog.pmarca.com/ hat sich die Mühe gemacht, das ganze in einem Screencast zu vedeutlichen:
Sehenswert!
