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The days of static web analytics and metrics are dwindling. In an era where trends move at the speed of light and turn on a dime, you need to have access to metrics in the moment. And with the rise of global data stream network service providers, this data is made available to users in milliseconds. The...

Geolocation is a great way to add another layer of interactivity to a real-time application. By knowing the location of your users, it’s easy to group them into pools and provide data and notifications to specific user channels. Additionally, it can be a great combination for real-time applications...

A couple of weeks ago, we announced our WebRTC SDK, expanding our ever-growing list of PubNub supported SDKs. This API makes incorporating WebRTC into a PubNub enabled app straightforward and simple. In addition to the new SDK, we introduced a prototype WebRTC demo called PubShare, just one example of...

Last month, PubNub Founder and CTO Stephen Blum traveled overseas all the way to Israel to present at DevCon Tel Aviv. In his 20 minute presentation, Blum demonstrated the capabilities of using the PubNub Data Stream Network integrated with any HTML5 app through a series of demos and case studies. Blum...

Photo sharing applications are no longer just about manipulating and uploading photos to the cloud. The success of Instagram has shown that photo sharing apps need a way for users to interact in real time, one where users can subscribe to channels and notify other users that they’ve uploaded a...

We’ve updated our SDKs, and this code is now deprecated. Good news is we’ve written a comprehensive guide to building a multiplayer game. Check it out! Around the PubNub office, we’re always sharing our gaming high scores with each other, whether it’s TrackPad Destroyer, Lightweight...

The generally “go-to” app for real-time interaction is some form of messaging, be it text chat, video or audio. However, we all know there must be more applications of real-time communication out there. File transfer is one of those applications that developers seem to have forgotten about, probably...