Michael Carroll

We make it easy for developers and product teams to incorporate real-time data streams into applications and focus on innovation, not infrastructure.

InsightsDec 16, 2016

The Connected Car Security Problem No One is Talks About

Matthew Young is a Boston based freelance writer. As an aspiring automotive journalist looking to make a name for himself in the industry, he is passionate about covering anything on four wheels. When Matthew is not busy writing about cars or new emerging tech, he usually spends time fiddling with his...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 15, 2016

Sending Transactional Email from Real-time apps: SendGrid

Trigger the sending of a transactional email based on a user’s actions or an action in a real-time data stream, like sensor readings, a chat message, or a collaborative app.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
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ChatDec 14, 2016

Content Moderation and Filtering for Real-time Messaging

Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → The Internet is an amazing place full...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 13, 2016

Analyzing Real-time User Sentiment with Lexalytics Semantria

The Semantria API from Lexalytics allows you to categorize and extract text, and analyze it for sentiment and emotion. The Lexalytics block lets you process real-time data streams while they are in-motion, enabling you analyze and categorize text and run functions based on the result. For example, you...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 9, 2016

Real-time Presentation Remote Control: reveal.js + PubNub

We would like to introduce you to Salvatore Cordiano. He is a full stack web developer with over 6 years of experience in web, mobile and software development. He recently gave a talk at the Chatbots Milano Conference in Milan and he surprised the audience with his slides. He used PubNub to allow the...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 6, 2016

Real-time Text Translation with SDL Language Cloud

Text translation services can be useful in a variety situations, such as content accessibility for users from different cultures, real-time augmented reality text translation, integration with text-to-speech services, translation to a common “hub” language, and other cases where the input...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 1, 2016

Speech Recognition and Voice Activation Tutorial Roundup

When it comes to interfaces and hardware, voice functionality and speech recognition continues to grow in both adoption and capability. Voice technology, both local and cloud-based, is being built into every device category. From smart TVs (Apple TV), to kitchen hubs (Amazon Echo), to web browsers, smart...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildNov 30, 2016

Add SMS Real-time Alerts + Notifications with ClickSend SMS

SMS can be a headache, so we're very excited to announce our newest BLOCKS partner, ClickSend SMS. The ClickSend SMS API lets you send and receive SMS from web-enabled computers and mobile phones. The ClickSend SMS block allows you to send SMS alerts and notifications via the PubNub Programmable Network....
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildNov 28, 2016

Cloudinary Image Manipulation and Transformation On-the-Fly

Developers are increasingly utilizing visual assets in their web sites and mobile apps, which calls for robust storage, flexible image manipulation and optimized delivery. For example: Social apps: automatically resize or crop images being sent in a group chat app Business apps: change the format of...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll