How are you implementing the real-time refresh?

Which part? The landing page? Those are simply a cached result displaying as a ticker to make it looks real time but it actually loops through the result.

What would I gain over Java6? I don't use java for anything, except, I have a couple of apps on my machine that make use of it.

Java 7 is faster in some cases. Also, some Java apps will require Java 7 — but obviously that doesn't apply to you if you aren't planning on using any new Java apps and those don't force an upgrade.

As a user it only makes sense to keep up with security updates, to use applications that depend on Java 7, the JIT compiler is also faster.

As a developer, even if some features got postponed to Java 8, it still has lots of nice new features to get your hands on.

Security enhancements, among other things.

Though, of course, you know better than clicking 'yes' on a random trojan installer, so maybe you don't need the security updates.

Java 7 has lots of enhancements for dynamic languages and some new things like NIO2 for asynchronous services (vert.x, for example, requires java 7)

I wonder what the percentage the founders are pocketing?

A much better article by the same author! http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/flame-on-a-beginn...

I think they'll be announced within 2 weeks.

Why is this framework better than things like ember.js, especially if ember has something like this https://github.com/tchak/colors-demo

I don't think 'better' is the right question. Their's room for multiple frameworks. To answer the question I think Meteor's strong suit is live coding for rapid prototyping.