by arin | Mar 27, 2014 | Real Time
Communication has always been about “location” Just like in real estate, communication is all about “location, location, location.” It’s always been that way, but it’s getting turned around. The first communication tool was the...
by arin | Mar 22, 2014 | Real Time
Meetup provides an API for accessing streams of real-time data about its service which can be fun to play with. In this post, we’re going to consume one of those streams via their javascript interface and mash up event registrations with a google map. When it’s...
by arin | Mar 19, 2014 | Real Time
This week I attended the WebRTC “conference in a conference” that was part of Enterprise Connect in Orlando Florida. In addition to being a welcome respite from the lingering cold weather of my home in Virginia, it was also a welcome opportunity to network with the...
by arin | Mar 8, 2014 | Real Time
What good is “Big Data” if it’s old and out of date? Data analysts and enterprises are finding more needs for real-time insights into their data, not just historical views into data. The term “historical data” is very relative of course,...
by arin | Feb 28, 2014 | Real Time
I’m very pleased to announce that our team is well into writing a book on how to build real-time web applications using WebRTC and publish/subscribe real-time messaging networks. I’ve been presenting this topic to user groups for a while now using a tool that we built...
by arin | Feb 28, 2014 | Real Time
Let’s say you have a browser application that needs to keep data in synch between multiple users in real-time. Perhaps it’s a real-time data dashboard, or an online collaboration tool like Sensei, or a multiplayer game. Should you use a publish/subscribe data model or...