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Learn about new PubNub releases, industry trends, and app development tips.
News Aug 30, 2012
Announcing Channel Presence
The launch of PubNub Channel Presence opens up a new world of possibilities when building apps and websites. PubNub Channel Presence is a globally distributed “user presence” system that delivers real-time “occupancy analytics” to iPhones, Androids, tablets, web...
InsightsJul 8, 2012
Are HTML5 WebSockets the Panacea for Real-Time Data Push?
As consumers expect more from their websites and apps, a majority of newer sites and mobile apps are adding features that require publish-subscribe. Everything from financial apps, business collaboration, real-time social sharing and newsfeeds, to multiplayer games, chat, and voting apps all require...
News Jul 3, 2012
PubNub Adds Cross-Platform AES Symmetric Key Encryption
PubNub is used in more industries every day, including some that require high levels of security and encryption when sending real-time data. We’ve listened to those customers, and worked closely with them to devise a new level of encryption within the PubNub Data Stream Network. Available immediately,...
ChatJun 8, 2012
Building a PubNub-Powered Chat App with Sencha Touch 2
Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → Sencha Touch 2 is a new framework for...
BuildApr 26, 2012
Content Commander WordPress Plugin for Live Blogging
Bloggers are often pointed to as the taste-makers of internet. For example, in the music world, the hippest of hip music is usually first discovered and promoted by bloggers. Sadly, if they want to share cool stuff with their audiences, they still have to do it the Web 1.0 way. Push Any Content with...
News Apr 22, 2012
PubNub to Apply TimeToken Enhancement
PubNub is applying a TimeToken enhancement to our web-messaging infrastructure on May 2, 2012 . If your app uses the PubNub TimeToken directly, then this article concerns you. For the latest information please visit PubNub Help Desk and Knowledge Base. Note that it is unusual for you to be...
ChatMar 14, 2012
HTML5 Mobile Chat Easily with jQuery
Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → Get started quickly with your mobile...
GamingFeb 1, 2012
StackHack: Massively Multiplayer WebGL Game
We’ve updated our SDKs, and this code is now deprecated. Good news is we’ve written a comprehensive guide to building a multiplayer game. Check it out! We recently gave the multiplayer WebGL game StackHack a major facelift, and we recommend checking out that blog post here: Making Interactive...
GamingNov 23, 2011
A PubNub-Powered Game for ImpactJS
We’ve updated our SDKs, and this code is now deprecated. Good news is we’ve written a comprehensive guide to building a multiplayer game. Check it out! ImpactJS is an HTML5 mobile and web games framework for building games quickly. PubNub has the ability to add Multi player Connectivity for...