My BlogCamp topic - Breathless polling vs. push updates
End of August - a Barcamp-style unconference focused on blogging related topics will be held in Zürichs Technopark. More information and sign-up at blogcamp.ch. Although the conference agenda is only made on the day of the event - some people choose to pre-announce the topic they want to talk about. Check the (Un)agenda.Last year I talked about the Geoweb.
This time I going to contemplate about the push vs. poll concept. The meltdown of Twitter, the aggregation galore of Friendfeed et al and the iPhone "push" features revived discussion if the breathless polling for updates is the right way forward.
Todays web architecture (HTTP, HTML) already offers simple techniques to reduce polling and provide near-realtime updates. Newer concepts have emerged - one example being Comet. I plan to provide some insight on todays issue - an overview of techniques (simplified - no coding skills required ;-) and show examples in the (micro-)blogging world.
Feel free to join the discussion - see you there.
It looks promising. If Comet belongs to the client/server area (for a web client though), XMPP seems to be the solution of the future for the server/server or client/server in the desktop application.
Pyro EventServer is an example of solution that can be used pretty easily.
See you there, I hope ;-)
Posted by
Yoan |
August 17, 2008 6:49 PM
Hi,
thanks again. Best lecture of the whole BarCamp, IMO. Keep up the good work.
Posted by
Fischer |
August 31, 2008 1:51 PM
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