Weelya, an interesting realtime web startup from France, has released version 1.0 of it’s Ajax Push Engine (APE). press release here. Currently chats back to APE server over its own protocol, with WebSocket and lovely HTML5 server-sent events support not too far away – keep an eye on this one.

In other news, Chromium Websockets support is go!!.

Finally, it looks like comet/long polling/nph hacks will be kicked to the curb and not a moment too soon – 2010 is setting up to be a paradigm shift year. yay.