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BuildMay 11, 2011
Real-time Multi Touch with PubNub
This tutorial walks you through how to build real-time multi touch functionality with PubNub, enabling you to sync multi touch actions across any number of devices. Check out the live multi touch demo here (open in two browser windows), or check out the multi touch source code. Use your fingers to transmit...
ChatMar 19, 2011
Build Real-time Chat Apps in 10 Lines of Code
How to build real-time chat apps in 10 lines of JavaScript
BuildMar 17, 2011
HTML5 Mass Broadcasting Desktop Notifications
This tutorial explains how to broadcast real-time cross-platform, cross-device desktop notifications to your users on any browser
News Mar 12, 2011
Internet Programmer Heroes Song
Just for you, PubNub has created an HTML5 Song Lyrics Animator using CSS3. To get you more excited, we had a song created featuring your favorite programmer heroes of the internet. Press the Space Bar on your Keyboard to progress the Lyrics one word at a time. We realized the importance of announcing...
BuildJan 7, 2011
node js Supercharged by PubNub
node js is an exciting and promising new server-side application platform for building apps using JavaScript. However, not everyone knows that node js can be supercharged using PubNub to connect a human audience. PubNub believes in node js as a powerful app server and that’s why we have created...
BuildAug 9, 2010
Facebook “Meh” Button : JavaScript
Yesterday, BoingBoing posted an article with a new Facebook Icon for “Meh” Button, opposed to “Like”. Inspired by this, PubNub developers built the Facebook “Meh” Button and added real-time functionality to it. This button can be used with the Facebook “Like”...
News Jul 20, 2010
PHP Push API Walkthrough
PubNub adds Publish and Subscribe for PHP developers. Developers can use Publish/Subscribe from a terminal or web server.
BuildJun 17, 2010
Enable jQuery Push Notifications API
The new PubNub JavaScript Push API 2.0 now with jQuery Plugin! If you are a jQuery user and have wanted a Push API with Publish and Subscribe, then hurray! Here is the fastest and lightest jQuery Push API. It is compatible with mobile phone devices such as iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android, Symbian and...
BuildJun 11, 2010
Fastest JS Google Closure, gzip -9, Memcache, CDN, Headers
At PubNub, we use Google Closure Advanced Optimizations Mode, Max Gzipping -9 and Memcache for best possible performance delivery of our JavaScripts. Closure + gzip -9 and Memcache Research, Benchmarks and Stress Tests has lead to create the best JavaScript delivery method to date. If you are looking...