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This is my experiment using Comet, Faye, Sinatra, and Redis. Let me know what you think. I keep it open all day and watch stories move up and down without missing the ones that fall off the front page.

If you mouse over the items they will highlight, other users can see the mouse over as well. More Info is on the About page http://toseeitlive.com/about

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Seeing mouse overs of other users seems pointless and the faint change from black to gray made me a little dizzy. Also the "Users Online" doesn't seem to load, but it sounds interesting. I like the idea though, just seems like it could be presented better (I almost missed the green arrows).

Yeah The Users Online will update every 5 minutes, and I will improve the presentation, just kinda doing it for myself and wrote it in a few hours so haven't put much style into it. Thanks for checking it out! I could have it update every minute and the arrows would be noticed earlier and maybe I should move it closer to the number of the article.

Yeah this is not a fully bullet proof system, it is just an experiment, something that I use and thought I would share, if you want to play around with the technology check out the urls on the about page.

It will be an interesting post to talk about how you get all these working with Faye, Sinatra and Redis.

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