Turn a pull service into a push service with MyQron

MyQron was recently launched by developer Neil Garb, who currently works at Zoopy. MyQron aims to turn pull services into push services. For example, RSS feeds currently work on a pull. Your RSS client constantly polls and checks for new items.

Niel Says

I’ve developed a web service called Myqron to turn pull-type web services (e.g. RSS) into push-type web services. The service works by using custom-written adapters for each type of pull service, which contain business logic for determining when a pull service updates.-

The application is in turn inspired by the webhooks project.

Web hooks are user-defined callbacks over HTTP. They’re intended to, in a sense, “jailbreak” our web applications to become more extensible, customizable, and ultimately more useful. Conceptually, web applications only have a request-based “input” mechanism: web APIs. They lack an event-based output mechanism, and this is the role of web hooks. People talk about Unix pipes for the web, but they forget: pipes are based on standard input and standard output. Feeds are not a sufficient form of output for this, which is partly why Yahoo Pipes was not the game changer some people expected. Instead, we need adoption of a simple, real-time, event-driven mechanism, and web hooks seem to be the answer. Web hooks are bringing a new level of event-based programming to the web.

It takes a few seconds to register. Once you register you add a service (Currently just RSS), set your poll interval and Service name & Service URL. In Addition, you need to specify the END point which is basically the script that sits on your server that recieves update.

The service itself seems very interesting, and i can think of several uses of it. You could link it to an SMS app, RSS feeds to SMS notifications would be an example of a use case. The service seems to be a similar concept to Gnip, What are your thoughts on the service?

Hat tip to Wogan for pointing out gnip!

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