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Tumblr, the fast-growing lightweight blogging platform, is constantly adding new features. Tumblr's latest move is to start pushing users' blog updates in real time, using PubSubHubbub (try saying that 10 times fast). Tumblr's real-time will be powered by Superfeedr, which is the same service used by Tumblr competitor Posterous.This is more of a step for the future than a right-now sort of thing, because most RSS readers don't support PubSubHubbub yet. To get these fancy new real-time updates, instead of the old-fashioned RSS ones, you can use Friendfeed, Lazyfeed, or the new Netvibes Wasabi. With PubSubHubbub, you get new updates immediately, instead of checking for them at intervals or having to reload manually.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
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Subscribe to commentsMikkyDec 13th 2009 6:21AM
It would be a nice feature, but why would they go to all the trouble? The site is growing like crazy already. Just look at their traffic: http://www.sitereport.org/Tumblr.com IMO they have a great plan already.
mDec 14th 2009 12:15PM
NyaR: Try Chyrp. I myself have built a tumblelog theme for wp, replicating what tumblr is doing, using php. I want to have higher control of my data.
Mikky: No they don't. They make zero money from the site as this point.
They don't have a business model.