- Needed for a way for servers to talk to other servers…decentralized social networks
- Instant syndication
- Data for mash-ups – real time
- Requirements: easy to deploy, topic-oriented, high-throughput, enables new use-cases
- Not trying to solve client/server
- Wave vs PubSubHubbub: wave is a reinvention of collaboration on the web
PubSubHubbub bootstraps the web for real-time - Publish subscribe hub = PubSubHubbub
- The Hub is the intermediary between the publisher and subscriber
- http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/
