Friendfeed implemented the new feature tonight. Users can choose to view most of their FriendFeed pages in real time, including topical based pages.

Robert Scoble says: "This is wild. It’s like the web has been turned into a chat room", and I agree.

Push technology, or server push, describes a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction originates with the publisher or central server....

blog.friendfeed.com

many other services are using long polling, eg. blip.fm, plurk.com, ping.fm, soup.io, facebook.com, etc...

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