I’ve just finished reading chapter 2 of Zoom! The faster way to make your business idea happen and to use one of Ian Sanders favourite words it really “resonated” with me and my experiences with Kwwika.
Chapter 2 is entitled “The trouble with too much planning. [...]
A lot of people have written up their thoughts on 2010. Whether the thoughts are personal or a look back at specific things such as real-time web products the purpose is the same; to reflect on what has happened during the year, an opportunity to realise what’s been achieved, what hasn’t, what could’ve been and [...]
There are a number of ways of delivering data in real-time but until recently it has looked like PubSubHubbub, with the backing of Google, was going to be the preferred method. However, the past couple of weeks have seen a couple of interesting developments which could indicate that the developer community may actually prefer HTTP Streaming.
I’ve just been involved in a twitter conversation with Nick Halstead of DataSift on Twitter. This all started when I tweeted that I thought Kwwika would be a great way of distributing data from DataSift to any web-enabled device.
The conversation continued:
The main thing here [...]
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been involved in developing a Real-Time Cricket widget. It’s been a collaboration, with Opta Sports providing the data, Kwwika powering the real-time client push as well as doing a bit of dev on data archi…
We've got a potential client interested in using Kwwika on HP webOS so we've been working with them to test the Kwwika JavaScript library on a platform that we've not been directly targeting. After a problem glitch with the 64bi…
There’s so much excitement about real-time push technologies that quite often, in fact almost always, the benefits of using push are overlooked, forgotten, or simply not known. The technology excites programmers who want to use it, want to k…
Over the past few weeks we’ve been dabbling with first creating a PUbSubHubbub Subscriber and then building a cool real-time demo which integrates the real-time feed goodness from Superfeedr with the real-time client push wickedness of …
I recently did an interview about Kwwika with Jane Adams for Innovation Focus Scotland. We chatted about what Kwwika offered, what our costing model is (or will be), what competition we have and how we will differ from that competition. I a…
We’re try to get more and more people using Kwwika and we feel that registering is maybe a barrier to entry. So, we’ve decided to give everybody access to our service. The only caveat is that we’ve just enabled access from your local develop…
About Phil Leggetter
My name is Phil Leggetter and I'm a Developer Evangelist at Pusher, a Real-Time Web Software and Technology Evangelist and Consultant, software engineer, team leader, line manager, micropreneur, product developer, Twitter user and a keen user of social media. For more information see the About Phil Leggetter page.
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