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Last month, PubNub Founder and CTO Stephen Blum traveled overseas all the way to Israel to present at DevCon Tel Aviv. In his 20 minute presentation, Blum demonstrated the capabilities of using the PubNub Data Stream Network integrated with any HTML5 app through a series of demos and case studies. Blum...

Photo sharing applications are no longer just about manipulating and uploading photos to the cloud. The success of Instagram has shown that photo sharing apps need a way for users to interact in real time, one where users can subscribe to channels and notify other users that they’ve uploaded a...

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! Around the PubNub office, we’re always sharing our gaming high scores with each other, whether it’s TrackPad Destroyer, Lightweight...

The generally “go-to” app for real-time interaction is some form of messaging, be it text chat, video or audio. However, we all know there must be more applications of real-time communication out there. File transfer is one of those applications that developers seem to have forgotten about, probably...

With PubNub’s new WebRTC SDK, WebRTC applications can now leverage the PubNub Data Stream Network. The API expands our ever-growing list of PubNub supported SDKs, and WebRTC developers can now integrate the PubNub Data Stream Network to produce fully-featured collaborative applications. The PubNub...

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 → We’ve updated our SDKs, and this...

We like games here at PubNub, but not as much as we like real-time. Combine the two, and you’ve got pure mega-awesome. During the PubNub Hackathon, I took a popular text adventure game called Candy Box, and updated its stats page to provide a real-time overview of the global game real-time stats....

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...

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...