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Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

#21
Looks nice, but what's the difference between Tambur.io and:

http://www.buddy.com/http://js.dotcloud.com/https://cloudmine.me/http://backlift.github.com/docs/http://www.meteor.com/mainhttps://parse.com/about/indexhttp://derbyjs.com/http://www.kinvey.com/http://www.stackmob.com/http://www.appcelerator.com/cloudhttp://pusher.com/http://www.firebase.com/http://www.pubnub.com/https://www.getbridge.com/

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That wasn't the point. And I actually played a version of the tambur as a kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburica

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.

Two and a half million results doesn't make this word very common at all. Even "frolicking" returns twice that.

Besides, looking through the first two pages of those results, most are people's last names.

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Two and a half million results doesn't make this word very common at all. Even "frolicking" returns twice that. Besides, looking through the first two pages of those results, most are people's last names.

"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?

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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post #23
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two and a half million results doesn't make this word very common at all. Even "frolicking" returns twice that. Besides, looking through the first two pages of those results, most are people's last names.

"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?

Thank you, both of you, for such a relevant and intellectually stimulating discussion.

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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post #23
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two and a half million results doesn't make this word very common at all. Even "frolicking" returns twice that. Besides, looking through the first two pages of those results, most are people's last names.

"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.

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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Does this have any special features compared to pusher, pubnub, etc.?

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-…

Maybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans

Well it's won you one customer here at least. I'm really sick of companies charging extra for security.

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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Looks nice, but what's the difference between Tambur.io and: • 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/ • http…

This is an important question I think should be answered

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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post #27

Looks nice, but what's the difference between Tambur.io and: • 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/ • http…

This is an important question I think should be answered

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 :)

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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post #17

Does this have any special features compared to pusher, pubnub, etc.?

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-…

Tambur.io looks great.

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.

Re: Tambur.io provides your business with APIs to build scalable real time web apps

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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?

Thank you, both of you, for such a relevant and intellectually stimulating discussion.

Blame the lack of a downvote button on my account.
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