RSSCloud is a built-in mechanism for the RSS protocol that allows clients to immediately receive updates when new content becomes available. This results in immediate notification rather than polling every hour. Our new iPhone application, RSS Viewer, has had a plan to begin supporting RSS Cloud as soon as servers started offering it. Well, that wait will soon be over. As noted on the Wordpress.com blog, all blogs served by Wordpress.com will have RSSCloud enabled. That means that the RSS Viewer servers that power the RSS Viewer application on the iPhone will be able to connect directly to these feeds and immediately provide updates to your iPhone. In other words, when a new post appears on Wordpress.com (or any other RSSCloud based server), within seconds you will be notified on your iPhone. No more waiting for a few minutes before you get the notification. When a post is added, the RSSCloud system immediately pushes the notification to the RSS Viewer servers which immediately pushes the notification to your iPhone via RSS Viewer.
We hope to have RSS Viewer released this week for the iPhone. As RSSCloud is a server-based feature, we will hopefully have support for it within two weeks.
We have just launched support for RSSCloud and Wordpress.com enabled sites. Check out the video below.
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