"The latest version of Feeds has realtime web feed subscriptions based on PubSubHubbub (PSHB). Here I explain when this could benefit you and how you can set up your site to aggregate news efficiently in realtime."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
Because PSHB is supported through the Feeds module which handles node import, Drupal can then process the data.
- Mike Chelen
"This is a screenshot from a little application I built with Processing. It takes the data from your webcam in realtime, and turns you into a bunch of atoms.The mouse controls the size of the atoms on the horizontal axis and a click will render out the current frame as a jpeg."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
"gadgets.realtime and the APIs built on top of it allow gadget developers to write applications that communicate asynchronously with another endpoint, whether that endpoint is another instance of the application (on another machine, or in another browser, for example), the container hosting the gadget, or an application hosted in the cloud. The obvious application of these APIs is 1:1 gaming -- at its most basic a Tic-Tac-Toe game between two users. However there are many other more complex (and arguably -- depending on your thoughts about games -- more interesting) scenarios that these APIs enable; for instance, a chat application that translates text as participants type it, or a shared whiteboard, or an application that lets a couple choose the best flight for their upcoming vacation."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
adapting the game "pong" would be alot of fun
- Mike Chelen
This could bring the API feature set of web apps like etherpad (collaborative text editing) and real time data push (http streaming have a look at the open source Ape project and the commercial lightstreamer project). Another likewise project is "Reverse HTTP server" (reversehttp.net). I remember once seeing a web application where you could paste some text on one textarea and without...
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- TrafficBug
google docs and etherpad are similarly very fast and reliable, yet neither has realtime APIs afaik. any google realtime apis are exciting, although im unsure if they will all be replaced by google wave
- Mike Chelen