Category Archives: firehose

Are Toll Roads Open?

Posted on November 18, 2010 by jessestay

Twitter proved me wrong. Well, sorta. After my last article I had a whole slurry of rebuttals by Twitter employees suggesting my last article had “serious factual errors” and that the move by Twitter to charge $360,000 a year for … Continue reading →

Posted in firehose, Gnip, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open, open standards, Paywall, Technology, Twitter | 18 Comments

Buzz Opens the Firehose With New API Features

Posted on July 19, 2010 by jessestay

Just a few minutes ago, on his Buzz update stream, Google employee DeWitt Clinton announced that Google had opened up their real-time stream of information for Buzz. Now, any application can access, in real-time, all updates across the entire service … Continue reading →

Posted in buzz, firehose, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, real-time, Technology | 3 Comments

Did Google Reader Just Turn on the Firehose?

Posted on February 18, 2010 by jessestay

Google’s big push recently has been on enabling open, real-time technologies to publish, read, and interact with its new service Buzz.  Reader, its RSS subscription and website reading service, is one of the biggest tools to integrate with the service. … Continue reading →

Posted in firehose, Google, google reader, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, pubsub hubbub, push, reader, real-time web, realtime, rss, rss reader, social, Technology | 28 Comments

FriendFeed Turns on the Twitter Firehose (Again)

Posted on December 23, 2009 by jessestay

It seems that some time today, the FriendFeed team has just re-enabled their live Twitter stream (using Twitter’s “Birddog” API) for real-time updates from Twitter.  I noticed the update when posting a cool bookmarklet by Kynetx, and re-tested it again … Continue reading →

Posted in firehose, FriendFeed, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, paul buchheit, real-time, social, Technology, Twitter | 7 Comments

FriendFeed Opens Up the Firehose to Developers

Posted on July 20, 2009 by jessestay

FriendFeed seems to be staying one (or two or three) step(s) ahead of Twitter in everything they do. Today FriendFeed released their real-time stream of data in beta to any and all developers wishing to write applications. Unlike Twitter, there … Continue reading →

Posted in api, firehose, FriendFeed, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, oauth, platform, real-time, Technology, Twitter | 27 Comments