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Real-time Data Streaming is Changing Everything
InsightsNov 21, 2016

Real-time Data Streaming is Changing Everything

Data Streams are changing everything. The power to stream data at real-time speed, to anywhere on Earth, has become a staple of applications for every industry, and has found itself a fundamental feature for end users. As a result, we’re rethinking how we architect and build software and hardware, and...
Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
Real-time SMS Alerts for Offline Users with RingCentral
BuildNov 18, 2016

Real-time SMS Alerts for Offline Users with RingCentral

RingCentral provides a wide variety of cloud-based phone communication APIs, so naturally we’re excited to announce that RingCentral is now a PubNub BLOCKS partner. That means you can harness RingCentral’s powerful APIs, and execute them while your real-time data is in-motion over PubNub....
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Real-time Image Moderation for Chat with Sightengine
BuildNov 17, 2016

Real-time Image Moderation for Chat with Sightengine

Sightengine provides a simple API to analyze, moderate, and filter an image for nudity, profile image validation, or type check. Sightengine could be integrated to monitor a discussion group or forum, and filter out user-generated photos that break code of conduct instantly. And now with the Sightengine...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
AT&T IoT Starter Kit + PubNub: Integrating on AT&T Client
BuildNov 16, 2016

AT&T IoT Starter Kit + PubNub: Integrating on AT&T Client

Building your IoT app just got as easy as assemble, connect, and prototype. Today, we’re excited to announce our partnership with the AT&T IoT Starter Kit, enabling developers to build and deploy IoT apps using AT&T’s variety of tools for connectivity, LTE hardware, and cloud storage,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
AT&T Flow Designer + PubNub: Seamless IoT Dev and Deployment
BuildNov 16, 2016

AT&T Flow Designer + PubNub: Seamless IoT Dev and Deployment

AT&T Flow Designer is an intuitive visual tool that makes it easy to design, prototype, and deploy IoT solutions. With this web-based tool you can visually create and connect multiple data sources, cloud services, and embedded devices. With AT&T’s expansive broadband network and focus on IoT,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Detect and Filter Profanity in a Real-time Chat App
BuildNov 16, 2016

Detect and Filter Profanity in a Real-time Chat App

We’d like to introduce you to one of our BLOCKS partners, Neutrino API. Neutrino provides a variety of useful web services and tools for web developers, like phone and email validate, image resizing, IP geolocation, and in this tutorial’s case – detecting and filtering profanity. We’ll...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Real-time Image Analysis & Feature Detection with Clarifai
BuildNov 15, 2016

Real-time Image Analysis & Feature Detection with Clarifai

Developers and consumers, get ready! The world of Artificial Intelligence is exploding. As the amount of compute power available to developers increases and the underlying technology of AI advances in leaps and bounds, we are seeing more and more applications of artificial intelligence in daily life....
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Read Receipts Pattern for Real-time Chat Apps
ChatNov 11, 2016

Read Receipts Pattern for Real-time Chat Apps

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 → Read receipts signify when a message...
Adam Bavosa
Adam Bavosa
Developer Relations Manager, PubNub
Add Voice Commands in a Web Application
BuildNov 9, 2016

Add Voice Commands in a Web Application

Hello, and welcome back to our series on Voice Activation in Real time web applications. In the previous articles we looked at an overview of voice technology, created a webapp with text to speech using AngularJS, then added speech recognition support. In this article, we will add Siri-like voice commands...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll