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InsightsSep 5, 2014
New Connected Stadiums for Audience Participation Apps
The San Francisco 49ers will play the first regular season game at their new stadium on September 14th against the Chicago Bears. That day will usher in a new era of smart connected stadiums in professional sports. Located just minutes down the road from Atmel headquarters in Santa Clara, California,...
News Sep 5, 2014
PubNub Data Stream Network – CIO’s “10 Hot IoT Startups”
When it comes to connecting the Internet of Things, we like to say we “solve the problems of large-scale IoT connectivity in the wild.” Just what do we mean by “in the wild?” We mean anywhere outside the lab, anywhere where connectivity isn’t guaranteed. The Internet of...
GamingSep 4, 2014
DIY Minecraft: Multiplayer Voxeljs with PubNub
I recently stumbled across the awesome Voxeljs library which allows anybody to create Minecraft style games (Voxel) that run in the browser with NodeJS. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to develop multiplayer Voxeljs to build a DIY Minecraft! I decided I was going to take an afternoon...
GamingSep 2, 2014
Members Only! JavaScript Private Chat API w/ Access Control
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 now built out a pretty solid...
BuildAug 29, 2014
IoT Demos: iBeacon, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, MQTT
When you intern at PubNub, you’re not running errands, getting your manager coffee, or scrubbing fridges. No, you’re building amazing applications and PubNub evangelism and IoT demos that harness the power of the PubNub Data Stream Network. You’re helping customers be successful with...
BuildAug 28, 2014
How to Create an App Like Snapchat
Building a DIY Snapchat isn’t as hard as you’d think. In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to capture an image and send it in real time to a recipient using JavaScript. As a rule of thumb, if you can represent data as a JSON object or string, you can send it with PubNub Data Streams....
BuildAug 28, 2014
Bidirectional Push Notifications for Large Message Payloads
This blog post looks at three mobile push notification methods with tutorials: Google Cloud Messaging, Apple Push Notification Services, and PubNub Data Streams.
GamingAug 27, 2014
Creating Private Chat Requests with Popup Alerts
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 → Building on our previous spawning private...
BuildAug 27, 2014
Blazing Fast Remote Signaling for Raspberry Pi and Arduino
This tutorial shows you how to connect a Raspberry Pi or Arduino to PubNub for the purpose of blazing fast and reliable remote signaling for embedded IoT.