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I'll admit to not knowing much about the various usages of XMPP, outside of Jabber. Is this any different than turning text messages on for Twitter, where people I'm following == feeds and texts == jabber messages? Or is there something else cool about this that I'm not getting?

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I think sprsquish pretty much answered that. We're "content-agnostic" as long as they're feeds. You subscribe to a feed (and that could be a twitter feed and you receive notifications), however, please not that we're an API service, so not for "consumers" directly. Check http://notifixlite.appspot.com/ for that!

Isn't RSS itself a push? Or you're just changing protocols?

Sorry for being such a n00b...

Nope, RSS isn't push. RSS us just a common way of "formatting" the information, but it stays where it is :) If you (or your reader) don't poll it, you'll never see new items.

Superfeedr has an XMPP API that allows you to subscribe to updates on a blog or really anything with an RSS or Atom feed. It'll provide push notifications when your subscriptions update.

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