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27th July 2008 - Link Blog

How Comet Brings Instant Messaging to meebo. “What started off as a hack appears to be fulfilling one of the most basic needs of the Web, which is live synchronous interaction”—Jian Shen

Posted 27th July 2008 at 11:18 am

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