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Learn about new PubNub releases, industry trends, and app development tips.

ChatMay 30, 2013
Chat Features: User Detection, Persistence, Multiple Rooms
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 → In this tutorial, we’re going to...

ChatMay 24, 2013
How to Build a JavaScript Simple Chat App with No Backend
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 → Trying to plan out and begin building...

ChatMay 17, 2013
Build a JavaScript Group Chat App with No Backend
This tutorial (broken into 4 parts) shows you how to build a fully-featured web and mobile group chat app with JavaScript.

GamingMay 10, 2013
Lightweight Multiplayer HTML5 Games with PubNub and melonJS
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! In my quest to change the world, I’ve been experimenting with an HTML5 game engine to push the limits of the browser as a platform...

BuildMay 3, 2013
Streaming Geo Coordinates API From MongoDB: iOS App
**NOTE: Since we wrote this tutorial, we’ve released a new, completely-redesigned version of our iOS SDK (4.0). We rebuilt the entire codebase and took advantage of new features from Apple, simplifying and streamlining the SDK. The code from this tutorial still works great, but we recommend checking...

GamingSep 28, 2012
xkcd HTML5 Canvas MMO WebSocket Scaling with PubNub
Hello all hackers from HackerNews. We noticed a new MMO was released by n01se and xkcd yesterday (September 26th, 2012) with multiple users flying around with a balloon figure. If you got stuck, you can click your balloon guy and turn into a ghost to seamlessly move through the landscape unhindered...

ChatSep 13, 2012
Channel Presence: Beautiful Mobile + Web HTML5 Chat
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 → You can do some pretty amazing things...

News Sep 4, 2012
PubNub Developer Console v2
The launch of PubNub Channel Presence meant we also needed to provide a way for you to debug and learn about the Presence Event Delivery Format. Therefore, we have created a new and improved Developer Console V2 with Presence Events built directly into the console interface. Now you can easily see the...

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...