Strata Rose Chalup forwarded:
>The service is reminiscent of another once-promising Internet technology
>called ``push''
s/promising/overhyped/ ;)
> Items that Web publishers want updated, such as a scoreboard, a stock
> price ticker, even a rotating banner advertisement -- only need to have
> their ``tags'' slightly modified to work with Bang.
Better description here: http://www.bangnetworks.com/products/d2.html
It sounds like it uses javascript and the DOM to rewrite the page with the
new bits...
> Push fizzled out soon afterward, as users complained of information
> overload while companies blamed push broadcasts for slowing down other
> network traffic to crawl.
BTW I don't see how this avoids the latter problem. If employee A leaves
a web browser open at http://www.somenewssite.com/, and they've got Bang
stuff on their front page, it'll still have a connection open to your
nearest "Object Router" at your ISP. Change that to 50 employees, and
there'll be 50 connections to the ISP's object router.
I suppose there's less data being shipped, though.
--j.
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