It can be a huge challenge to make a marketing campaign stand out and get attention, so imagine trying to do so during the US Presidential election. How could it be possible to create a campaign that grabs national attention on a modest budget? Mullen did just this for JetBlue, creating a viral campaign powered
Pusher is a very flexible pubsub system that allows you to build all sorts of applications. However, as we start seeing the kinds of things people are building, we start hearing about optimizations that we can make to make your lives easier. One of the ones we have heard frequently is the need to publish
We’ll be at Startup Weekend Edinburgh this weekend and we’re really excited to be involved. There’s a lot of innovation in Edinburgh and Scotland in general (and I live there so really want to be involved) so we want to help startups by getting them up and running as quickly as possible. It’s one of
We’ve always been interested in creating a platform that integrates seamlessly with your applications, and provides the best possible user experience as developers. To this end, we’ve been working hard on features that expose the interactions your users have with the system. We previously released WebHooks to notify your server when a channel is occupied
November’s looking busy for Pusher this year. Business of APIs We’ll be kicking the month off with the Business of APIs London – a one-day exploration of how successful companies have extended their overall business models via effective API business strategy. The event will take place on the 6th of November and we’re looking forward
I’ve just returned from the awesome Hack Manchester, a coding marathon for the hardiest of developers. Expectations were high and we weren’t disappointed. Thanks to Gemma Cameron, Sean Handley and Joe Swan (and everyone else who helped) for putting on such a great event. Aside from some Wi-fi glitches it was a triumph! Thanks also
A couple of days after the WebSockets panel at HTML5DevConf in San Francisco I gave a talk at TwilioCon. We were asked to try and cover a big topic and focus on a few key points. Since the conference was for Twilio, a telephony cloud service, we wanted to cover something that both incorporated Twilio
I’m just back from San Francisco having attended a couple of events. The first was HTML5DevConf where it was great to see such an increased focus in realtime web technologies. So much so that there were rooms named Realtime 1 & Realtime 2. I had the pleasure of being part of a WebSocket panel focusing
I’ll be at Hack Manchester this weekend (27th-28th October). The event looks glamorous and will undoubtedly attract some talented hackers. If you are coming along I wanted to give you a quick nudge towards using Pusher in your hack! What can I make with Pusher? Here’s a few use cases that Pusher is great for:
Last week on Monday & Tuesday we were camped out at the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference in London. The conference was aimed at everyone from devs to creatives to entrepeneurs, and attracts a forward-thinking crowd to debate the latest technologies, trends and thinking on web and mobile applications. Exactly the kind of folk