In this second podcast Benoit Curdy and Pietro Polsinelli continue to discuss the European start-ups scenario searching for common traits as found in the interviews made on TechMe2 and DevInEu.

They discuss the importance of getting feedback on your start-up ideas at the very preliminary stage, and about early stage funding.

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In this interview we talk with Mark Boas about how he used the Comet technology for the Qwiiz game.

First some definitions:

"CometD is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a Ajax Push technology pattern known as Comet. The term 'Comet' was coined by Alex Russell in his post Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser."
http://cometd.org

"New services like Jot Live and Meebo are built with a style of data transmission that is neither traditional nor Ajax. Their brand of low-latency data transfer to the browser is unique, and it is becoming ever-more common. Lacking a better term, I've taken to calling this style of event-driven, server-push data streaming "Comet"."
http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/2006/03/comet-low-latency-data-for-the-browser

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