I’ve recently started a new job at Kaazing, a company focused on re-engineering the Web for real-time. Kaazing’s vision for the future of Comet closely parallels my own vision, allowing this architectural position to be mutually beneficial both for Kaazing’s Enterprise customers and the Orbited project. To those ends, Kaazing has generously allotted a substantial portion of my hours towards committing improvements directly to the Orbited codebase. Many of those improvements will be soon made available with the upcoming 0.5 release of Orbited. Furthermore, Kaazing is encouraging my direct involvement with the HTML5 specification as a forum for driving Comet standards. These exciting developments are great news for me, Orbited, Kaazing, and the entire Comet community.