http://simonwillison.net/2008-12-18T23:33:46+00:00Simon Willison2008-12-18T23:33:46+00:002008-12-18T23:33:46+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Dec/18/friendfeed/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008/12/simple-update-protocol-update.html">Simple Update Protocol: Update</a></strong></p> Already implemented by more than five services, each of which now have near-real-time updates in to the FriendFeed syndication engine. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/friendfeed">friendfeed</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/realtime">realtime</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sup">sup</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/syndication">syndication</a></p>

2008-08-28T12:16:38+00:002008-08-28T12:16:38+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/28/friendfeed/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008/08/simple-update-protocol-fetch-updates.html">FriendFeed Blog: Simple Update Protocol</a></strong></p> FriendFeed infamously poll RSS feeds on the 43 services they support millions of times an hour in an effort to keep their content as real-time as possible. SUP is a new proposal by FriendFeed for a sort of “master feed” of changes to a site—instead of hitting the Flickr feed for each of their users they would just poll Flickr’s SUP feed every minute or so to find out who had uploaded a new photo, and only retrieve the RSS feed for those users. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/atom">atom</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/feeds">feeds</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flickr">flickr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/friendfeed">friendfeed</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/polling">polling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rss">rss</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sup">sup</a></p>