We are happy to announce that Feedoor is now fully supporting real-time by implementing both real-time protocols, RssCloud and Pubsubhubbub.

Thanks to Superfeedr the realtime feed parsing service which made hard things easy, we could implement “real time” in “no time”

Now, and as a member of Feedoor, you can enable real-time for any feed in your account, even if that feed does not have a real-time protocol.

How Real-time “really” works?

Real-Time is “push” not “poll”, meaning, in order to make your feed “Real-Time” it has to push new posts. Instead of polling your feed every “x” minutes to check for new posts/data, Real-time aware clients and applications will subscribe to your feed and wait contents to be pushed to them when ever your feed has a new post.

How Feedoor’s Real-time Works?

If you’re managing a feed with Feedoor and that feed is already implementing RssCloud or PubSubHubBub protocol then Feedoor waits for a notification to be pushed from your original feed when it has a new content, once it’s notified, feedoor goes on and notifies back those who subscribed to your feed and pings another 17 well known feed services.

But what if your feed doesn’t implement RssCloud or Pubsubhubbub?

In this case your feed will not be able to notify Feedoor of new contents, so we need to poll your feed frequently and check for new posts, when Feedoor detects a new post it will ping feed services and real-time clients/applications. Your feed still can be converted to “near” real-time even if doesn’t implement a real-time protocols.

When the web started to go main stream back in the 1990s, there was a lot of buzz about real-time, but that vision was not accomplished until recently. Today Feedoor joins the real-time club and enables that vision to any website and blog.

Stay tuned for more great features to empower your feed.

Yes it’s true, it’s about the time to move to a better host and continue our plans to expand feedoor services so we have moved completely to Rackspace Cloud Hosting! A big thanks for Rackspace and their fantastical support.

What’s Next?

We will monitor Feedoor for a week or two and then start the new release of Feedoor new version with a set of new features, so stay tuned

You may think feedoor is another normal feed management service, but according to us, feedoor represents the ultimate feed tool for all your feeds needs and here are some ways on how to use Feedoor.

1- Manage your feed:

It’s a great chance that you have a feed, and if you don’t have a feed for your online business or even personal publications then I suggest you to get one immediately. So you have a feed but you are really not a feed savvy and want another party to take care of your feed, well, feedoor can do that for you, we will display your feed in the best format, wrap it in a stylish theme, give you easy publishing tools, provide your visitors with easy subscription tools and record every hit your feed receives, by the way, it’s a good thing to know who’s visiting your feed and how many subscribers you have.

2-Manage your feed(S):

Yes, this time with the BIG “S”, it’s not only you can create many feeds, you can also combine many feeds in one, maybe you have more than one feed and want to put them all in one, this is easy with feedoor, you can merge multi feeds with different feed formats in one feed, and feedoor will do the hard job to examine your posts and arrange them according to the publishing date, wait a minute, you can also filter each feed, let’s say you want only last 5 post from feed “x” to be added, or even posts with some keyword, really,no problem.

3- Create your own single items:

Now if you don’t have a feed or your feed lack some post and you want to add that one single post, again, no problem, feedoor allows you to create single posts, just select “Item title” from the dropdown menu, write your mew item’s title and go through the wizard, Tara.. you have a new single post lying between your original feeds posts

4- Create a combination of your social feeds:

Now let’s take feedoor usage to another level, let’s say that you have many social networking accounts and want your friends to be notified with all of these activities at once, simple, create a feedoor feed and combine all your social feeds in one feed and give it away to your friends and visitors.

5- Aggregate your favorite feeds:

Combine your favorite feeds in one feed and add to your feed reader, instead of reading every feed separately. How about that?

hope this article gave you some useful ways to use feedoor, really there are many ways you can use our service and we even adding new ways all the time.