PubSub and Blog Pings
Some unfortunate news from the blog pinging industry: PubSub may not be around much longer. At least not in its current state. After some rumours were posted on TechCrunch recently, Co-founder Bob Wyman wrote last week about the troubles they are going through on his blog.
I hope Bob can find help and keep his service running. PubSub is one of the major blog pinging services and is used by many bloggers and is part of the Feed Mesh network. Weblogs.com and Blo.gs were both acquired by large companies (Verisign and Yahoo) in the past year or two, so one would think there would be a market for PubSub as well.
PubSub is also one of the four default ping services pre-configured in Community Server 2.0 (along with weblogs.com, blo.gs, and Technorati). If the service does go dark we will have to remove or replace it in the CS 2.1 default ping services list. Perhaps it is a good time to give Ping-O-Matic another shot. We tried using them in CS 2.0 as the single default ping service, but sadly server and technical issues prevented us from using them at the time CS 2.0 was released. According to the Ping-O-Matic Blog they have moved to new servers and fixed some issues with RPC pings in the past couple months.
If you have any suggestions as to what the default blog ping services should be in Community Server 2.1, please let me know. There are certainly lots of other services out there beyond the four we are currently using, such as Ping-O-Matic, IceRocket, Feedster, Syndic8, etc.
