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How does Facebook create a real time popout chatroom when somebody like a friend sends you a chat message?

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The technique is called Comet or Long Polling.

See the Wikipedia article for a good introduction.

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Take a look at NodeJS, it's much better than long polling.

Also check https://github.com/endtwist/AjaxIM