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by dfamorato 4978 days ago
Very very nice, congratulations ! Could you share a little bit of the technologies used ? How to you make every browser go to the same page ? Do you think this would be possible with video as well, like making sure everybody is at the same point on a video ?
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heeton 4978 days ago
We host the PDFs on AmazonS3, and use PDJ.js to render them on the page. To keep everyone on the same page, we use websocket events via Pusher. Video would be quite different, so we don't have any plans for that now.
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roh26it 4978 days ago
framebench.com does this for video, PDF and images.. syncs pan and zoom position as well. In private beta, collecting some great feedback for now :)

Great to see people building apps which leverage the power of sockets and enable real time interactions on the web. A trend which is much likely to catch fire soon.

(yes, I work with Framebench!)

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