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24th July 2009 - Link Blog

The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real. Anil Dash is excited by the potential for PubSubHubBub and Webhooks to make near-real-time scalable event publishing accessible to regular web developers. So am I.

Posted 24th July 2009 at 6:30 pm

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