If you are blogger, then you must be aware of the advantage of publishing RSS feeds. One of the shortcomings of RSS feeds is that a subscriber usually have to pull the feed from source and syndicate it, the pulling duration varies for everyone based on their preference. Similar to that of pop3 email checking where your email client software polls the pop3 server for new emails.
This is where twitter and Friendfeed services come in handy where there is no delay and your content/message is distributed to masses in “real time”.
RSSCloud makes checking of update spontaneous, by client telling the RSS distributer that let me know as soon as update is available rather than polling at frequent times for updates
This is the same concept of push email, supported by Microsoft exchange, Black berry push mail and other push email services. The end result will be that as soon you publish a post on your blog, all subscribers will be notified of it in real time, sounds exciting doesn’t it.
Well hold on, not so fast, I know you want to leverage this feature just right now, but please continue reading.
WordPress supporting this feature does not mean anything, unless the feed clients or consumers can handle RSSCloud feature. Clients like Google Feedburner, Microsoft Outlook does not support RSSCloud feature and will not be able to fetch updates in real time.
Although advantages of real time updates are enormous and are evident, but it will take time for big client softwares to implement this feature. If you are enthuse enough you can try RSSCloud feature by using clients like Dave Winer’s River2 or LazyFeed .
RSSCloud has been around for a while and its about time WordPress has started to this feature, additionally
WordPress also intends to support other ways to make RSS more real-time, which could include integratio nwith “Jabber, email, Weblogs.com pings, SUP, pubsubhubbub, Twitter” and more.
RSSCloud is active on every blog hosted on WordPress.com. If you have a self-hosted blog then there is RSSCloud WordPress plugin available for you to become real-time blogger using WordPress.
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Article by Muzzammil Waheed
Founder of BiGGTech.com, tech enthusiast, develops in Microsoft technologies with interests in technology, science and gadgets