Comments on: Goodbye PubSub http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Something Simpler To Bring PubSub Back From The Deadpool? | A View from the Isle http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122489 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:09:58 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122489 [...] (including intellectual property) of RSS company PubSub, which after a promising start flailed and fell out of favor. The deal involves IP, equipment, brands & trademarks, but not the company. According to our [...]

]]> By: vishy http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122488 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:46:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122488 I’m a big fan of the publish-subscribe model. I just believe that people don’t have the time to sit and browse along for things to happen. BUT: the main challenge here is NOT scalability of a pubsub server as us techies would like to believe. It is, as others commented, finding the right content to deliver and NOT delivering any other stuff (Precision and Recall, just like in search engines).
I’ve come at it from this content point of view and started http://www.alertpedia.com. It’s less of a pub-sub and more of a sub-alert system. But it doesn’t matter to users: they just want to know when that Wii sells on Craigslist or a product is recalled (ok, earthquakes do, because USGS has such a nice RSS feed :) )
Sorry to see you go Pubsub, but you seem to be back, already. good!

vishy
http://www.alertpedia.com

]]> By: catech » Blog Archive » Something Simpler to bring PubSub back from the deadpool? http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122487 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:03:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122487 [...] (including intellectual property) of RSS company PubSub, which after a promising start flailed and fell out of favor. The deal involves IP, equipment, brands & trademarks, but not the company. According to our [...]

]]> By: Sandbox » Something Simpler to bring PubSub back from the deadpool? http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122486 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:52:35 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122486 [...] (including intellectual property) of RSS company PubSub, which after a promising start flailed and fell out of favor. The deal involves IP, equipment, brands & trademarks, but not the company. According to our [...]

]]> By: GigaOM Something Simpler Acquires PubSub Assets « http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122485 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:35:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122485 [...] intellectual property) of PubSub, the RSS company, that after a promising start flailed and fell out of favor. The deal involves IP, equipment, brands & trademarks but not the company. According to our [...]

]]> By: Randy Charles Morin http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122484 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:00:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122484 Corporate famous last words. It wasn’t a technical problem.

]]> By: Liz Gannes http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122483 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:45:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122483 Hi David,

On the corporate side BlogPulse is a bit different from the rest, since it was started at Intelliseek and now is folded into VNU/Nielsen. But you’re right, the BP service is underappreciated.

]]> By: David Evans http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122482 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:09:21 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122482 It’s too bad, I worked with them to fix a few issues a while back, liked the service but there were a few gotchas that didn’t seem to ever get fixed. I’m wondering what people think about Blogpulse? Lots of different ways to measure metrics and better eye candy than Technorati, which is a must have but leaves a lot to be desired in terms of raw stats. BP seems to have it’s own share of issues early days for all of these types of companies.

]]> By: pwb http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122481 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:44:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122481 Yawn.

]]> By: Matt Roberts http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122480 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:01:12 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122480

That might be a bit harsh

What if I state that I believe Google Alerts is also a junk mail machine? Because I do believe that. I don’t want to seem like I’m picking on PubSub. All of the recent aggregators that I’ve tried suffer from the same problems with volume, relevancy and delivery, at least they do enough for me not to scratch my head over their failures and wonder if some sort of failed working dynamic between the founders was tumultuous enough to kill an otherwise excellent product.

]]> By: russ http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122479 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:40:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122479 Wow..another one off the Web 2.0 chart.

]]> By: Ab http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122478 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:25:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122478 They are too broke to even file for bankruptcy but their website is still up and running?

]]> By: Joel http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122477 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:21:04 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122477 That might be a bit harsh. PubSub was a decent concept in theory, it just didn’t come across in practice. Who really needs IMMEDIATE knowledge about earthquakes (other than people in california)? I think the problems between Salim and Bob were a result of some of the problems that the company was having more than anything else. I think it’s less an issue of “business and friendship” than an issue of a startup that never quite started.

If the money was rolling in, everyone would have been all buddy buddy. But since things weren’t working out tension begin to build quickly. They say money is the root of all evil, but it’s also the solution to 99% of life’s problems (except for finding true love or some such hippy nonsense). I think a lot of the problems that PubSub had wouldn’t have arisen had the business model and implementation been a little more solid.

]]> By: Matt Roberts http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122476 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:32:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122476 I disagree. PubSub was a pretty bad product. It was basically a junk mail machine.

]]> By: Matt Roberts http://gigaom.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122475 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:52:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/goodbye-pubsub/#comment-122475 Shame really..

Two strong and intelligent characters couldn’t make a good idea (and fair technology) work.

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