All 10.5 Million WordPress Blogs Take Another Big Leap Into The Real Time Web

The real time web is officially upon us. WordPress.com has just announced that all 10.5 million of its blogs have now gone real time.

WordPress has ventured into real time before with support for RSSCloud, but thanks to PubSubHubbub, all posts from any WordPress.com blog will appear in services like Google Reader, Bloglines, Friendfeed and Netvibes in real time.

You don’t have to be on wordpress.com to make this happen. WordPress are also announces an official plugin to enable PuSH support for any wordpress.org blog. You can download that here.

PubSubHubbub is an open protocol for distributed Publish/subscribe communication on the internet. The main purpose is to provide near-instant notifications of change updates, which would improve on the typical situation where a client periodically polls the feed server at some arbitrary interval.

For more PuSH related reading check out the PubSubHubbub project site and Google Group. And if you really want to geek out there’s always the PubSubHubbub Spec