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I came across a quick post from Benjamin Golub in his blog about SUP (no Wikipedia page yet, anyone want to write one?), a protocol developed by FriendFeed and described in their blog. 

Benjamin created a small YouTube video showing how SUP works.

Benjamin Golub demonstrates SUP

 

So naturally, I now have a bit of SUP-envy, since I run a WordPress blog and not my own home made cloud-based blog platform like Ben.  Which means my next step was to perform a Google search for ‘WordPress’ and ‘SUP’.  To my great surprise, a small SUP plugin has already been written!

Enter WP SUP, a small plugin that does exactly what’s necessary, which is to say add a bit of code to the RSS feed to make it SUP-enabled, and ping FriendFeed when the feed is updated.

Done and done.  Thanks Derek van Vliet!  Everybody go friend him immediately on FriendFeed.  Thanks!

WP SUP home page

Update: Feedburner seems to be stripping the SUP information out of the RSS feed header.  I’m looking in to it, along with Josh Haley and Benjamin Golub

posted December 19th, 2008 in In Brief, News | Tags: , ,

  • Thanks for the shout out, Phil. Let me know if you run into any problems with the plugin.
  • Well, I can tell you that the SUP headers doesn't seem to be in my RSS feed yet, and FriendFeed apparently didn't get a ping (or did nothing if it was pinged) because the post didn't show up until I manually refreshed the feed.

    I was going to give it until I blogged again to see if it still fails.. unless you have some pointers for me?
  • That may be because you're using FeedBurner. It looks like the changes to your feed don't carry through to FB feeds. I will look into what we can do about that.
  • Ahhh... I was afraid of that. I can tell you that the MediaRSS WP plugin adds those extensions to my feed and seems to work OK with FeedBurner. But I guess that may be on a per-post basis instead of in the feed header.
  • FeedBurner is definitely stripping the SUP link/header: http://friendfeed.com/api/feedtest?url=http://f...
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