Comments on: PubSub Finally Rises From the Dead [Kind of]

By: m65

m65 — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:59:20 +0000

Bob Wyman, one of the founders of the original PubSub, now works for Google. So yeah, ripping off PubSub with PubSubHubub is not a coincidence.

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By: bobwyman

bobwyman — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:02:09 +0000

Errr…. Sorry to correct you again, however, I am not the “former CEO of PubSub”. PubSub was an idea that I'd been thinking about since the mid-80's, but when it came time to found the company, I let Salim Ismail be the CEO so that I could concentrate on the technology as CTO. Choosing Salim to be CEO of PubSub was, in my opinion, the single greatest mistake I've made in over 30 years in the technology business.

By: tacanderson

tacanderson — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:59:57 +0000

Aw, way to take the steam from my sails. Bob. I appreciate all your comments here and appreciate you clearing up many of the questions I had.

By: malcolmpollack

malcolmpollack — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:42:33 +0000

Glad to see somebody still remembers PubSub — we did think we were on to something big, and it was a shame to see it die an untimely death. As Bob said above, though, that had nothing to do with Google.

I'll be keeping an eye on the new site too.

Malcolm Pollack

By: bobwyman

bobwyman — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:55:50 +0000

There is no relationship between the fact that I work at Google and the fact that other Google employees are working on the PubSubHubbub open source project. I don't even work in the same part of Google as the folk who work on PSHB. It is true that I support their work and am active in their public mailing lists, however, that has nothing to do with my job at Google.
Folk with some experience in this area will remember that Brad Fitzpatrick, one of the key developers of PSHB, implemented real-time feeds and pubsub systems while he was at LiveJournal and later at SixApart. What you see in PSHB is really the result of probably over 6 years or so of noodling around the same problem set by a large number of people — long before many of them came to Google. In any case, most of PSHB was actually defined and implemented long before I even heard about it.
Whatever the case, PSHB is really great stuff and I strongly encourage everyone to use it as well as to help the open process of defining its specification (still a work in progress).

By: bobwyman

bobwyman — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:46:39 +0000

You wrote: "I was heart broken when Google ripped them [PubSub] off..."
Google did NOT rip-off PubSub.com and the demise of the company had absolutely nothing to do with Google or anything Google did. The company failed due to internal issues which were personnel related-- basically, I made an exceptionally bad decision about who to make CEO of the company when I founded it and we all ended up paying for my mistake a few years later.

By: rafer

rafer — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:25:22 +0000

ceo of somethingsimpler

By: tacanderson

tacanderson — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:47:02 +0000

HA! I knew it! Thanks for the validation.

By: tacanderson

tacanderson — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:46:17 +0000

who is?

By: tacanderson

tacanderson — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:45:45 +0000

uh, ok