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The PuSH protocol is gaining more and more recognition nowadays. With this protocol as an extension to RSS and Atom feeds, it’s now possible to provide updates in real time.

How it Works

Before, subscribers have to rely on “pulling” information on a regular time interval. Through the PuSH protocol, publishers, such as us bloggers are now able to “push” information to hubs that act as messengers to our subscribers to provide them real-time updates. Here’s an interesting YouTube video on PuSH / PubSubHubbub.

You may learn more about this protocol on Google Code.

Wordpress and PuSH

Earlier this year, CMS’s such as Blogger, Tumblr, Posterous and Wordpress.com have already provided support for PuSH. There’s no need to install anything.

For self-hosted Wordpress.org sites, there is now an official plugin from Wordpress called PuSHPress. It’s pretty simple to install. As with any other plugin, simply download the file and copy into the plugin directory in Wordpress. Activate the plugin in the Plugins page and you’re ready to go. This plugin already has the hub features included, and once activated, Wordpress is now able to send updates directly from Wordpress to your PuSH subscribers in real-time.

[via DownloadSquad]

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