TechCrunch is cloud-enabled! 

It's a cause for celebration every time a feed is cloud-enabled, but it's a special victory when a large tech news site takes the leap. The first to do so was GigaOm, which became a source of realtime updates on the same day that WordPress got the feature. Now the second big brick falls into place -- TechCrunch.

I've been emailing with their new CTO Nik Cubrilovic, for the last month. This morning I got an email from him saying their service was up.

I added the TechCrunch feed to my River2 aggregator, and it worked exactly as it should!

Here's a screen capture of the Log page from River2.

1. I subscribe to the feed.

2. River2 requests notification from TechCrunch.

3. They check out its notification handler, and apparently like what they see.

4. They accept my request.

5. My River2 logs the registration.

Now when TechCrunch posts a new article my aggregator will be directly notified, will read the feed, and will immediately post the new item to my home page. All this should happen, if everything is working, in a few seconds.

Thanks TechCrunch for supporting rssCloud!

PS: Last night I posted an rssCloud status report.