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16th October 2008 - Link Blog

View your FriendFeed in real-time. FriendFeed become the latest site to enable real-time updates using the long-polling variant of Comet. The real-time Web was something of a theme at this year’s FOWA, with talks on message queues, XMPP and scaling Comet at Meebo.

Posted 16th October 2008 at 2:06 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 16th October 2008.

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