Facebook Lite became available to members in the U.S. and India this week. Facebook Lite was reportedly developed for people in countries with slow Internet connections, but Facebook noticed that American beta testers loved it, so they rolled it out here.

Three talented showmen are fairly new to playing together, and getting the right mix of names and faces has taken a bit of sorting out. Dave Tasabias (bass/vocals), 42, of Riverside; Mike Elliott (drums), 44, of Lake Elsinore; and Jeff Barkan (lead guitar), 45, of Hemet have gone by the name DoubleTake, but last week they switched to the name BoobieTrap. Its still just coming together, but ...

Recognition

Editor's note : With all of the debate lately between RSSCloud versus PubSubHubbub, we wanted to hear from a developer who could actually tell us which one might be better and why. The following guest post is written by Josh Fraser , the co-founder of EventVue , who is an active contributor to PubSubHubbub in his free time. He has contributed several client libraries for PubSubHubbub including a ...

RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, helps you stream all of your news and blog sources into an easy-to-manage RSS reader such as Google Reader . Millions of people use RSS to keep up with Mashable, The New York Times, and even LOLcats. However, it does have its limitations. The big one is speed. It can take minutes to hours for a blog post to reach the reader through RSS. This has been a ...

Hot new RSS reader LazyFeed just announced that it intends to implement support for RSSCloud , the real-time element in RSS that WordPress turned on for millions of blogs today . Perhaps already more hip to the real time web than any other RSS aggregator on the market, LazyFeed is a very logical place to see RSSCloud in action. LazyFeed is a service that tracks blog posts by topic and notifies ...

RSSCloud is a new format specification for feeds that solves polling and notification issues. It works by adding a cloud element to a feed which describes the path to a cloud server that should be notified when a feed is updated. The cloud server, in-turn, will send the updated feed content to all subscribers and aggregators. There is a description of this process on the RSSCloud website. The ...

All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in (using this plug-in ) will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud . There is currently only one RSS aggregator that supports RSSCloud, Dave Winer's brand-new reader River2 . That will probably change very soon. Update: Within hours another RSS reader called ...

Movies are noted for their overblown representations of death, with the actual scene of death being the high dramatic point of the movie. This latest flare-up of chattering about the so-called death of RSS is beginning to resemble one of those often over-acted movie scenes. This latest round of fortune telling hits the blogosphere [...]