Websockets are awesome (you can see everyone's cursor)! Please donate yours

I'm just another Dutch student trying his best to graduate. And yes, I did let a few people check the site before I launched it (not only Dutch people). Still, my English isn't the best and thank you guys for pointing that out. I'll change it as soon as possible.

I'll give all comments a closer look soon. Again, I didn't really expect this (otherwise I'll optimized it first and put it on a CDN and stuff). I'll also get into details (specs, technical details etc).

And again, thank you all :-)

Anyways, if you did this to intern where I work, I'd give you an internship position in a heartbeat. Wish you all the luck to get what you want fellow hacker. Thumbs up.

"It gives you a peak at the engine of Steam."

should be

"It gives you a peek at the engine of Steam."

Using Node.js. The node js example even provides the code to replicate it. Is this person using node or some other websocket approach?

How often are you sending out cursor positions? I was trying to start a cursor ruckus but I think that all my cursor movement crashed your server.

Incidentally, this could be an interesting exercise in calculating when and how often to send out cursor coordinates. I'd add something about that on the page too, as I dare say that's a good skill to have as well.

All the best.

I saw a lot of questions about where I got my inspiration. Someone built something similar at the Node.JS knockout: http://tinyurl.com/2ch3nes. I started experimenting with PusherApp and NodeJS (I've worked with ape-project.org before doing this). Later on, I attended a developer meeting (http://rotterdamphp.tumblr.com) and they talked about Node.JS and CouchDB. At that same meeting someone pointed out Jeff Kreefmeijer's work and that I'm not the first one to build something like this. But I didn't care and kept on building (because it doesn't matter to me if I'm the first to build it). If you're curious on how I've build this, then you should check out my twitter (@davidvanleeuwen) tomorrow, because I'll submit it on github and will post the link there.

Btw: you can donate your finger as well on iOS4.2

      try{
         Robot robot = new Robot();
         while(true){
            for(float t=0; t<1000; t++){
               robot.mouseMove(200+(int)(150*Math.cos(2*Math.PI*(t/1000))), 400+(int)(50*Math.sin(2*Math.PI*(t/500))));
               robot.delay(1);
            }
         }
      } catch (Exception e) {}

Shouldn't that be "Oh, did I mention I'm a fanatic gamer as well?"

Good Luck.

What is the backend datastore/communications for this? redis? node.js? or just plain MySQL?

Cool showcase though :)