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As a natural conclusion to the process of migrating feedburner.com accounts to Google Accounts as previously described here, we have decided to sunset the legacy Feedburner Terms of Service. The Google Terms of Service will be the terms that apply to your use of Feedburner. These Google Terms of Service are the same terms that apply to many other Google products and services, including your Google Account.

Like we announced on the more general Inside AdSense blog a couple weeks ago, we have extended our category filtering beta to English-language ads on the AdSense network, which we are happy to announce includes ads that appear in AdSense for feeds.

Once again, the monthly Ezine edition will be published as scheduled on August 1st. Subscribers will find a copy aready in the archive.

The past two monthly editions have addressed some of the less-well-known problems associated with vaccinations. We much prefer to provide positive material that informs about how to actively maintain wellbeing and, when necessary, solve health-related problems by recommending safe and constructive actions. Sometimes we need to be helpful by being a little negative like when we warn of what not to do or what to avoid.

This month we have again followed the trend established over the past two months with a main article that warns about pharmaceutical drugs. The large and wealthy drug companies complain about costs and pretend to be your friends, while pointing to their "squeaky clean" ethics, scientific methods and powerful political allies. In reality they are simply about big business and they frequently get caught out conning you with deceitful practices and poisoning people with dangerous chemicals. They are right about their powerful allies though and that's why they keep getting away with the harms they perpetrate.

One of the questions we get from publishers most often is "How do I make sure updates to my feed are delivered to feed readers as fast as possible?" We know this is important to our publishers' businesses and we are constantly making improvements to our back-end systems to minimize the time from when you publish a post to when it appears to subscribers in feed readers.

Recently there have been a lot of developments around the so-called "real-time" web. The promise of the real-time web is distributing new information as quickly as possible. This encourages users to engage in more active participation online and makes the web more dynamic than ever before. However, so far the real-time web has not been easily accessible by feed publishers using their existing infrastructure.

Today we're happy to announce initial support in FeedBurner for the PubSubHubbub protocol. 'Hubbub is an open specification in draft for web-scale publish and subscribe. The protocol can be used to transform any existing Atom and RSS feed on the web into a real-time stream. Best of all, it's open, free, and decentralized like the rest of what makes the web so great: No single organization controls the protocol or how it's used.

As of right now, burned feeds with the PingShot service enabled are automatically enhanced with the PubSubHubbub protocol. We'll add the required discovery elements to these feeds and notify a Google-run Hub, running on App Engine, of publish events. We also convert any pings we receive into 'Hubbub events. That means for many of our publishers out there, your existing feeds are available as real-time streams right now. Like, immediately. This very moment.

If you are a publisher and are not already using our PingShot service, turning it on is easy. From feedburner.google.com, visit the Publicize tab for your feed, select PingShot, and click the [Activate] button at the bottom of the page. From your AdSense account, go to Manage Ads, then click View Feed Stats link, and do the same thing. That's it.



If you manage a service that would like to receive updates to the millions of FeedBurner feeds that use this service as soon as possible, or just want to know more about the PubSubHubub protocol, we encourage you to check out our project on Google Code. There are open-source clients for Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, and WordPress. We have an open-source reference implementation of a Hub built on Google App Engine. And there are other Hub implementations built and run by other companies. Please let us know what you think in the PubSubHubub Google Group!

Posted by Steve Olechowski, on behalf of the FeedBurner Team

The July 2009 ezine edition of The Health Gazette was published on schedule on July 1. Subscribers would have received a copy in their inbox and the archive copy was also made available.This notice was delayed due to technical difficulties on this site.

This month's main article is Part 2 of our two part series documenting what your doctor won't tell you about vaccination. Last month we noted some significant problems. These included the reasonably high vaccination failure rate, resulting in recipients having a false sense of security. We also discussed the inappropriate immune system impact that vaccinations have and the potential this provides for long-term problems and delayed diseases, quite difficult to "pin" on vaccinations.