https://brunopedro.com/tags/long-polling/Recent content in Long Polling on Bruno PedroHugoen-usTue, 08 May 2018 10:00:15 -0700https://brunopedro.com/2011/04/12/firehose/Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:22:27 +0000https://brunopedro.com/2011/04/12/firehose/<p>Some firehoses to <del>drink</del> read from, other than twitter&rsquo;s:</p> <ol> <li>Google Buzz, through their <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/buzz/v1/using_rest.html#firehose">activity firehose</a> API methods;</li> <li>FriendFeed, using their <a href="http://friendfeed.com/api/documentation#realtime">real-time updates</a> methods.</li> </ol> <p>While the first works via <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/">pubsubhubhub</a>, the second uses a combination of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology#Long_polling">long polling</a> and a cursor that helps you make subsequent calls.</p>