• Explore section - We're always trying to help you discover new stuff in Reader, and today we're introducing Popular items and Recommended sources, two ways to find interesting content from all over the Internet. We use algorithms to find top-rising images, videos and pages from anywhere (not just your subscriptions), collect them in the new Popular items section and order them by what we think you'll like best. Now you don't have to be embarrassed about missing that hilarious video everyone is talking about — it should show up in your Popular items feed automatically. And to make it easier to find interesting feeds, we're moving Recommendations into the new Explore section and giving it a new name — Recommended sources. Like always, it uses your Reader Trends and Web History (if you're opted into Web History) to generate a list of feeds we think you might like.

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In the past few months, a lot of attention has been given to the rise of the real-time web.  The problem is that the web wasn’t designed with real-time in mind.  There is a huge need for the tech community to get behind new protocols that will power this fundamental shift in how web applications work.  Today I want to take a look at two of the leading protocols that enable real-time notifications on the web.  While there are older protocols that enable real-time notifications like XEP-0060, PubSubHubbub (PuSH) and rssCloud are two new protocols which show a lot of promise of gaining adoption.

These days you get a lot of articles in your reader about RSScloud and PubSubHubbub (funny name). I was thinking about yesterday to install the RSScloud plugin for my Wordpress Blog, but I didn't...
Today I checked the plugin for PubSubHubbub and didn't installed the plugin because I'm using feedburner for my blogs RSS feed. A lot of blogs using feedburner for their RSS feed (also techCrunch), so why should I use RSScloud or PubSubHubbub for my blog?

Today we turned on support for all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com something called RSS Cloud, which is basically a way for people to get push notification that your feed has updated.

Why is this important? Right now how most people interact with feeds is by checking that it updated every now and then, usually about once an hour. Can you imagine waiting an hour to get your emails? (The world would probably be more productive.) RSS Cloud is an extra element in your RSS feed that allows subscribers to say “Hey, let me know as soon as you’ve updated, kthx.”

The big news yesterday: RSScloud! This new option will tell RSS clients about new blogs with the result the reader gets new stories in real-time, wow!

Normally I need ~ 1 hour to write a blog (sometimes more, at posterous only a few minutes). I can't believer that I'm more satisfied if my reader knows about that I'm finished with my writings right away.

On the Wordpress site is also a plugin which supports this feature, 2000 downloads yesterday is not so much for that important feature.

My readers getting for 75% the feeds in Google Reader, which gets already RSS updates in real-time. So no need to run that plugin :(