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PubSubHubbub + WebSockets + Gowalla + GoogleMaps
- Groxx 16y agoSo... what's it doing? More explanation would be nice.
- DotSauce 16y agoLooks like it's just a visual log of one persons' check-ins. It's moving way too fast to be entertaining or interactive. If you slowed it down, people could zoom in for a much closer look and it would actually be a cool slideshow style display.
- julien 16y agoHey, that's not really the purpose, but to show how simple it it to connect PubSubHubbub to Webhooks :)
- julien 16y agoFor those who ask what it is : PubSubHubbub and Webhooks (HTML5) integrated. Gowalla publishes its feeds thru PubSubHubbub. I built a small node.js server that can subscribe to these feeds. Then, this exact same server is a WebSocket server. The browser open a websocket connection to the server, which then subscribes to the hub. When the server gets updates it pushes them to the browser.
- nolite 16y agoOn firefox 3.6.8 for linux, and I see nothing.. is that normal?
- giantfuzzypanda 16y agoprobably, i had to use chrome
- julien 16y agoYeah, I'm not sure 3.6.8 implements WebSockets.
- sjs 16y agoCode here: http://github.com/julien51/socket-sub/ http://github.com/julien51/socket-sub/ Subscribe to any feed here: http://julien51.github.com/socket-sub/ http://julien51.github.com/socket-sub/
- dochtman 16y agoDoesn't seem to work in Firefox 4.0 (b3), which should have WebSockets... (I think it might be a different protocol version from what Chrome supports, which is exactly the reason it sucks when browsers go out there with protocols that aren't more mature yet).
- thedangler 16y agoI thought websockets have to make a connection to your server from the same domain? How are you getting around this?