WordPress Gets Real-Time With PubSubHubbub
WordPress.com powers alot of blogs, millions and all those blogs are about to get a new real-time feature, thanks to alot of Hubbub.
WordPress recently announced that the company has pushed support for PubSubHubbub live, a new technology that will push blog content to RSS and ATOM services much more quickly.
This is a very clever way to allow WordPress blogs to distribute content as it’s published to 3rd party services, rather than waiting for those services to check each feed for new posts. It’s on and live for all WordPress.com blogs, though self-hosted blogs must add a simple plugin, here to go real-time with this feature.
PubHubSubbub as highlighted in the video above. However those of you who want to find out more about the new protocol can do so over at the PuSH project site, here.
Playstation 3 plays with Netflix Watch Instantly
As Sony continues to makes moves to ensure the PlayStation 3 is winning the console wars, the system has finally started to find its niche as an all-in-one home media system. Today, Netflix has announced the new Netflix support and is accepting Pre-orders of the required disc and the PlayStation Blog also announced that Netflix is coming to US-based PlayStation 3’s but added an additional time line of next month.
The PlayStation 3 will join an ever-increasing number of devices that support Netflix Watch Instantly streaming. Last year, Microsoft and Netflix announced a partnership that brought Netflix support to the Microsoft X-Box 360 console. Netflix support on the X-Box 360 and on stand-alone players like the ROKU box, TiVo or Blu-ray players (like the LG Blu-Ray player) has been typically software based, with the software hardwired into the system’s firmware. This means that the devices almost always ships to retailers with the Netflix Watch Instantly feature already built in.
Brasil 2014 e Rio 2016
As many of you already know from previous posts part of spending time in Brazil was to launch a new travel site to build on Brazil’s growing tourism industry. While many millions of people travel to Brazil, few first time travelers are able to find comfortable accommodations with international standards. It is not because they don’t exist, but it is largely a symptom of an emerging market and simple cultural differences. Travelers from North America and Europe rely heavily on the internet to find and book travel, while Brazilians often still use Travel Agents and retail outlets. I would imagine that with these 2 high profile events, Brazil’s Travel industry will quickly modernize and find ways of using the web and mobile to facilitate easier travel.
How to solve the PS3 DNS ERROR 80710102
So with a new wireless network comes a new router to configure. I chose a Netgear RangeMax Dual Band N Router, it looks cool and has a Startrek like blue LED button on the top of it with alternating lights while it runs – what more could you ask for? Um – If anyone else is considering making this same purchase, learn from my mistake – the router features a rather misleading name. The router doesn’t support true dual-band wireless-N, and offers OK range at best. It’s a basic router with two separate access points, one of which supports Wireless-N and can operate in either 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequencies, while the other is a regular 802.11G 2.4GHz. The result is that when in dual-band mode the router is able to offer Wireless-N only in the 5Ghz frequency, while the 2.4Ghz frequency is maxed out at the 802.11G speed. Which is fine for me and helps (I think) cut through interference on the 2.4GHz channels for critical media.
After connecting all of the required wires I launch the Router page and start the config. First I replace the ISP DNS with the OpenDNS, this ISP is notorious for lagging “waiting for domain.com” issues.
I launch all of the machines that will be on this network and I immediately encounter both the PS3 “DNS ERROR 80710102″ and the OSX error “Your wireless network appears to have been compromised…” These are 2 semi-well documented issues with anecdotal work-arounds supplied by mostly other end users.
The steps I’ve taken to make my specific issues disappear, after the jump.
Time Warner Cable; Really?!?!?
Click here to listen – Time Warner Cable Voicemail
It sounds alittle crazy but it’s actually true. But wait how is it I have several neighbors who have Time Warner Cable? How did they get their Cable TV and Internet?
So I now post this via my new AT&T DSL connection that only took 3 days and 1 phone call to activate.
Lesson Learned – Back up manually and often
Welcome to the rebuild. If you notice something missing it is my Database.
After launching another Wordpress powered site on the Godaddy hosting account I have, I ran into some major problems. Godaddy has a MySQL dashboard that can automatically delete a database with little or actually no manual intervention. So upon install of Wordpress on a separate domain, the database for this domain was deleated.
But, you would think there is a back up, right? Yeah, me too. I had actually set their hosting dashboard to automatically back up the Database but it seems as if Godaddy’s MySQL automated back up system in their dashboard does not work either. When I called Godaddy up this Sunday to point out the issue and ask if they have anyway to recover the data they say “Yes! they can recover the data” – but they want $150.00. Even after I showed them this was all caused by their system and they agreed – they still said I would have to pay. So as opposed to paying the $150.00 fee to have them retrieve the data I will just rebuild the site. Lucky for me I could go to Google’s cache of the site and pull most of the front end code and content I needed.
Lesson learned – back up manually, Or at least set up my own back up and test it several times. Also, I might suggest to others don’t rely on Godaddy, I for one should know better then to use a discount domain company to provide working software and services for hosting. Let’s all learn from my mistake.
