I love the info bar in the middle of the site; the design is very pretty!
I'd like more information (maybe code examples?) when I click on the sections (Publish/Subscribe, Direct Messaging, etc.) without having to sign up. Right now, you're asking me to create an account without having a terribly clear idea of what I am actually signing up to.
(actually, I just realised that you have a 'how it works' section...that should be easier to find, I think! It is more or less exactly what I want when I try clicking on your 'publish/subscribe' section on the info bar.)
That was the point, your suggestion was that it was either an uncanny coincidence (really?) or someone you know. My contention was that as a word that returns two and a half million results on Google, it was obviously neither.
"Even" frolicking? Frolicking is a pretty common word. If it was called frolicking.io and you knew someone who went by the username, you would similarly assume it was either an uncanny coincidence or it was that person you knew?
Probably not because it's a verb. But I might, because finding small relationships between things makes life more interesting.
And now I'm very intrigued if there's a database of all or most english words ranked by their frequency. Something like the full Oxford English Dictionary, but with frequency ranks.
Maybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans.
As pusher we are big fans of WebSockets, afaik pubnub uses some sort of long-polling for their message-handling. I am not sure if pubnub provides a way to trigger presence events. Pusher also provides these features afaik by using separate channels for e.g. presence events (not sure though). In Tambur you enable presence-events, direct- and authenticated messages on the same channel (we call them streams). So we probably have more in common with pusher than with pubnub feature-wise, we just do things a little bit differently.
Another alternative if someone is looking for hosted SSL on a free plan would be Buddy http://www.buddy.com/pricing/, free for the first half million API calls with unlimited applications. Pretty steep at $250/mo for 500,001-10MM calls.
SSL is certainly important for a lot of apps handling sensitive data (as well as AES: http://blog.pubnub.com/pubnub-adds-cross-platform-aes-symmet...). It of course has to (and does) work seamlessly with PubNub Channel Presence, Message History and other features of the real-time messaging infrastructure. The key to providing an affordable pay-as-you-go pricing plan is scale, whereby fixed costs of the globally-deployed messaging infrastructure are amortized across thousands of apps, millions of concurrent users and billions of sent and received messages: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pubnub-cloud-exceeds-1-million.... More info available at help.pubnub.com FAQs.
Well, I can't describe all the services you listed - we didn't even know all of them. We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend, but I'm not denying there is similarity to other push services (hope they have tons of customers :)
Don't focus on the underlying tech, especially in your marketing material. Your users don't (and shouldn't) care. Devs who are going to use your product, won't be using web-sockets (and in fact, your library has fallback to flash sockets so in fact they may not), they'll be using your library, and if your library, works and gives them good performance, does it matter if underneath it uses, flash sockets or web-sockets or comet or ajax or a combination of all or black magic?
>We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend.
So is there any reason why someone would choose you guys over the others (most of whom support Web and Mobile clients)?
Even if the market is there & competition is good: You are right, tough question, because from a marketing angle this IS a black magic perspective. Def. need to work on differentiation, clearer value proposition etc. & not switching instantly to tech explanation or mentioning future plans and additions [which we have].
So…choose Tambur to make us learn more… ;) it IS a learning experience & we are thankful for all comments here
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(actually, I just realised that you have a 'how it works' section...that should be easier to find, I think! It is more or less exactly what I want when I try clicking on your 'publish/subscribe' section on the info bar.)
Good luck with your site!
Either this is an uncanny concidence, or Hello Tambur!
And I actually played a version of the tambur as a kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburica
Besides, looking through the first two pages of those results, most are people's last names.
And now I'm very intrigued if there's a database of all or most english words ranked by their frequency. Something like the full Oxford English Dictionary, but with frequency ranks.
As pusher we are big fans of WebSockets, afaik pubnub uses some sort of long-polling for their message-handling. I am not sure if pubnub provides a way to trigger presence events. Pusher also provides these features afaik by using separate channels for e.g. presence events (not sure though). In Tambur you enable presence-events, direct- and authenticated messages on the same channel (we call them streams). So we probably have more in common with pusher than with pubnub feature-wise, we just do things a little bit differently.
Well it's won you one customer here at least. I'm really sick of companies charging extra for security.
Another alternative if someone is looking for hosted SSL on a free plan would be Buddy http://www.buddy.com/pricing/, free for the first half million API calls with unlimited applications. Pretty steep at $250/mo for 500,001-10MM calls.
• http://www.buddy.com/ • http://js.dotcloud.com/ • https://cloudmine.me/ • http://backlift.github.com/docs/ • http://www.meteor.com/main • https://parse.com/about/index • http://derbyjs.com/ • http://www.kinvey.com/ • http://www.stackmob.com/ • http://www.appcelerator.com/cloud • http://pusher.com/ • http://www.firebase.com/ • http://www.pubnub.com/ • https://www.getbridge.com/
Don't focus on the underlying tech, especially in your marketing material. Your users don't (and shouldn't) care. Devs who are going to use your product, won't be using web-sockets (and in fact, your library has fallback to flash sockets so in fact they may not), they'll be using your library, and if your library, works and gives them good performance, does it matter if underneath it uses, flash sockets or web-sockets or comet or ajax or a combination of all or black magic?
>We started by really focusing on websockets, not mobile cloud or mobile app backend.
So is there any reason why someone would choose you guys over the others (most of whom support Web and Mobile clients)?
So…choose Tambur to make us learn more… ;) it IS a learning experience & we are thankful for all comments here