Today, ProcessOne launches a free, desktop Publish/Subscribe (PubSub) client. OneChannel will instantly receive new messages, minimizing the delay of distributing news updates and blog posts.
PubSub protocol uses XMPP and is much faster than RSS – imagine instant messaging, but instead of messages from friends, you get news and articles. And it doesn’t have to make feed requests, the new content is pushed straight to OneChannel once available. Moreover, it reduces the load on the servers. Instead of having thousands of RSS clients checking every hour for new content, they just have to wait for the data to be broadcasted to them.
We prepared several channels with IT articles, World headlines and ProcessOne messages, and soon you will be able to add your own channels to the collection. Since OneChannel is released as a public beta, please give us feedback and suggestions.
Note that most channels currently are coming from RSS, so the update interval is the one of the RSS polling. However, we will start pushing content directly in PubSub in the future.
We have build this client because we think PubSub is underused in the XMPP community and in the real-time web in general. This will allow the community to be able to use a client as a reference and basis to accelerate PubSub adoption.
For now, the client is able to render Atom or HTML payload (including embedded Flash objects like YouTube videos) only, but we plan to add new supported payload in the future.
To start testing, you just need a free account on the XMPP Sandbox, and the latest Adobe AIR Framework installed (available for Windows, Mac and Linux).
To download the PubSub client and learn more, go to OneChannel website.
