This document summarizes a presentation about real-time web technologies and WebSockets. The presentation covers topics like polling, Comet, Server-Sent Events, WebSockets protocols and APIs. It also demonstrates using WebSockets in Windows 8, ASP.NET and WCF. Concerns regarding network topology and adoption are discussed. The presentation concludes with references and announcing another session on building modern web sites with ASP.NET, Web API and SignalR.