Real-time chat with push notification

Question

I am working on a private messasing functionality for my site, is there a way to get push notifications from the server, that the user has received a new message?

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Answer 1

Sounds like the Comet probably links to some useful stuff (Look into Google's GTalk):

http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/2006/02/what-else-is-burried-down-in-the-depths-of-googles-amazing-javascript/