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A comment on Vizeddit: Live Reddit votes and comments from the Reddit API visualized in pure javascript.

Re:Vizeddit: Live Reddit votes and comments from the Reddit ... by thomaspaine on Thursday March 19, 2009 @10:25PM (#524402)
Cool. How does this work? Is it polling the Reddit API every 15 seconds? Gnip? Comet? Something else?
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Re:Vizeddit: Live Reddit votes and comments from the Reddit ... by d1rge on Friday March 20, 2009 @02:09AM (#524605)
It's polling reddit - every 30 seconds by the looks of the code. Fairly standard AJAX approach to grab reddit's JDON data via their API.
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