2012/OFirehose

 OFirehose  was a session at IndieWebCamp 2012.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/indieweb-ofirehose

When: 2012-182 16:00 Ception

OFirehose -- firehose for the open web #ofirehose

Participants:
 * Evan Prodromou (session leader)
 * Reid
 * Mime
 * Joseph
 * Travis
 * Rabble
 * Don Park
 * Julien Genestoux
 * Brennan Novak
 * Brennan Novak

Superfeedr: provide the infrastructure to to PubSubHubbub
 * next step: add ability to multiplex the feeds
 * e.g. any mention of "Evan Prodromou"
 * or within a geo fence
 * or with a min number of subscribers
 * does provide Firehouse for some of the hubs they host
 * some small private hoses
 * we only have subscribed firehoses - only includes stuff that someone subscribes to.

Evan: people ask me for a statusnet firehose.
 * for all statusnet instances on any server/site
 * statusnet instances are their own instances

Use-cases:
 * Developer convenience - go to a single URI rather than having to subscribe
 * Sentiment analysis
 * Search engine
 * can subscribe to popular keywords to prepopulate search
 * Google Alerts approach (keyword notifications)
 * Conference updates screen (all posts/photos with a certain hashtag)

Google's use of PuSH
 * they put results in search immediately
 * they use it for deduplicating - first post instance wins : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LsB19wTt0Q - Matt Cutts interview

How do people feel about aggregating their posts into a firehose?


 * OK, especially if it links back to original site
 * "I don't want to have someone sell my blog posts on a CD." -Tantek

https://twitter.com/public_timeline

Garden Hose vs. Fire Hose

Twitter gives some % of their Fire hose openly? Maybe 2%