Simon Willison’s Weblog

27th July 2008 - Link Blog

How Comet Brings Instant Messaging to meebo. “What started off as a hack appears to be fulfilling one of the most basic needs of the Web, which is live synchronous interaction”—Jian Shen

Posted 27th July 2008 at 11:18 am

Recent articles

Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video - 30th June 2026
Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code - 22nd June 2026
sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions - 21st June 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 27th July 2008.

comet 57 javascript 759 jianshen 1 meebo 2

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe