Gush News Aggregator Gains New Power by Integrating PubSub Prospective Search Technology
September 3, 2004 (New York City) - The Gush news aggregator - a popular online tool developed by 2Entwine that enables users to subscribe to news feeds - is the first to integrate support for PubSub Concepts' real-time prospective search technology, the two companies announced today.
Gush, built using Flash and Python, has been widely praised for its elegant user interface and for combining news aggregation and Instant Messaging into a single powerful platform. Adding PubSub's prospective search technology to Gush heralds a new, more powerful generation of news aggregators. "It will enable people to live closer to the edge of information creation," said Bob Wyman, CTO, PubSub Concepts.
Current approaches to news aggregation rely on repeatedly downloading the same RSS or Atom file to check if its contents have changed. These approaches result in inevitable delays in receiving new information as well as inefficient use of the network. "Because PubSub pushes notifications of newly published information as soon as updates appear, users don't have to waste bandwidth by constantly checking and re-checking for updates." explains Wyman. With PubSub, Gush users will efficiently receive new and relevant updates almost immediately after they are published -- often in less than a minute.
"From its inception, Gush has offered the convergence of three hot technologies: Jabber/XMPP Instant Messaging, RSS/Atom and Macromedia Flash," explained Dudley Carr, co-founder, 2Entwine. "PubSub's service for delivering near real-time news via Jabber was a natural fit." Wes Carr, co-founder 2Entwine, adds "Instant Messaging is to email what RSS/Atom is to a static webpage. Gush combines the two technologies because they complement each other."
"We're working with a number other news aggregators and Jabber/XMPP client developers and expect many more will soon support our service." said Wyman. Interested developers can visit http://pubsub.com/developers for detailed instructions on how to integrate with PubSub's service.
The new release of Gush can be downloaded from http://2entwine.com.
About 2Entwine:
2Entwine is a Rhode Island-based company founded in 2003. With an initial concentration of Jabber instant messaging and RSS/Atom syndication, 2Entwine is focused on uniquely combining collaborative technologies and providing a rich and efficient user experience. http://2entwine.com/about.
About PubSub Concepts:
PubSub Concepts is a New York-based company founded in 2002. The company develops internet-scale Publish/Subscribe systems and plans a series of product releases, extending the search capabilities of this unique technology. http://pubsub.com