The makers of the super-popular chat client Trillian have implemented Continuous Client features in the latest beta build for Windows (5.0 build 30).

ENGADGET: Trillian gets there first, brings Continuous Client features to latest build

With online titles, the opportunity for continuous content sales reward developers that strive to build communities around their titles.

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So they decided to build their own, starting from the core with data structures, algorithms, indexing and continuous loading of new data and starting a new company for the product, ParStream.

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