Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies. As part of our lead-up to The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, which is just over two weeks away, in this post we're listing 50 leading companies of the Real-Time Web.
Like any list, it is bound to be missing some worthy companies - so we invite you to list more in the comments. Our aim is to unveil the top 100 Real-Time Web companies at our event. A reminder that the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit is happening 15th October in Mountain View, California. Many of the ReadWriteWeb team will be there, so we look forward to meeting and talking with you all! You can register here for the low price of $195. To Advertisers, Twitter's a Fledgling. Twitter’s EarlyBird Is Just A Start. Next: Building Deals On Real-Time Conversations.
Twitter's EarlyBird Is Just A Start.
Next: Building Deals On Real-Time Conversations When Twitterfirst strolled into the world of commerce with EarlyBird. I yawned. Two-for-one tickets to the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice?” Pass. Although the deals have improved (most notably, JetBlue’s 20% discount which led to 1,000 ticket sales within the first 10 hours) I’ve been generally underwhelmed. AppNexus Raises A Meaty $50 Million Series C For Realtime Ad Bidding Platform. Realtime ad bidding network AppNexus today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series C financing.
Investors include Microsoft, Venrock, Kodiak Venture Partners and First Round Capital. The round brings the total capital raised by AppNexus since its founding to $65.5 million. The company first raised an angel round in 2007 from Ron Conway, Marc Andreesen, Ben Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and First Round Capital. AppNexus is based in New York City, and was founded by Brian O’Kelley, who was also a co-founder of Right Media. (Yahoo purchased Right Media in 2007 at an $850 million valuation). AppNexus calls itself a realtime bidding platform for ad networks. More than 4 billion ad impressions are served through AppNexus every day, up from zero two years ago.
While he won’t disclose specific details, CEO O’Kelley tells me, “We’ve gone crazy on the revenue side in the past year.” Bit.ly Raises $10 Million Series B, Still Growing Like Crazy. It looks like short links are here to stay, at least for a while longer.
Bit.ly, the largest independent link shortening service out there, closed a $9 million Series B financing. (Correction: An earlier version of this story had $10 Million as the amount raised. The actual amount was $8.9 million). The round was led by RRE Ventures, with AOL Ventures also becoming a new investor. Existing investors betaworks, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, SV Angel, Founders Fund, and a few angels participated as well. Every day, more than 200 million bit.ly short links are clicked on and decoded by the link-shortening service.
Bit.ly has been able to scale up to this point with only $5 million in capital invested. But the bigger opportunity for bit.ly is in all the data it is harvesting about which links people are sharing in realtime. On sites which it helps to operate like News.me, bit’ly will make traditional advertising revenue. The Human Algorithm: How Google Ranks Tweets in Real-Time Search. InShare5 In 2009, Google struck a deal with Twitter, rumored at $15 million, to integrate tweets into keyword related Google searches.
And last month, Google also integrated real-time search technology to surface blog posts and news content as they hit the Web – dramatically improving the previous five to 15 minutes its spiders would take to crawl the Web. I should also note that Collecta also offers the ability to search the real-time Web, but its results also include popular networks within the social Web. Between Google and Collecta, Twitter Search is starting to show its age. The opportunities and benefits of accessing the real-time Web also represent its most notable deficiencies – the ability to truly focus the stream of cascading information into a river of relevance. Philosophy Now. Articles Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried.
In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces. I have in front of me a module description downloaded from a British university English department’s website. It includes details of assignments and a week-by-week reading list for the optional module ‘Postmodern Fictions’, and if the university is to remain nameless here it’s not because the module is in any way shameful but that it handily represents modules or module parts which will be taught in virtually every English department in the land this coming academic year.
It assumes that postmodernism is alive, thriving and kicking: it says it will introduce “the general topics of ‘postmodernism’ and ‘postmodernity’ by examining their relationship to the contemporary writing of fiction”. Postmodern philosophy emphasises the elusiveness of meaning and knowledge. Don’t Speak English? StarsFeed Translates Celebrity Tweets So You Don’t Have To. Why Big Data & Real-Time Web Are Made For Each Other: Tech News « [qi:gigaom_icon_cloud-computing] There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the real-time web and the problems it poses for incumbent search companies and technologies.
Fast-moving trends and the availability of up-to-the minute updates mean that purely historical answers are missing crucial information. Dealing with constantly growing information streams causes performance and scalability problems for existing systems and calls into question the mechanisms for compiling, vetting and presenting results to users. While these challenges may sound new, game-changing performance and scalability problems are also being faced in the more traditional realm of data analytics and large-scale data management.
Driven by network-centric businesses that track user behavior to a fine degree, there has been an explosion in the speed and amount of information that companies need to make sense of, and an increasing pressure on them to do so faster than ever before. Batch processing A mindset shift. Www.slideshare.net/guest5b1607/text-analytics-summit-2009-roddy-lindsay-social-media-happiness-petabytes-and-lols. Big Data and Real-time Structured Data Analytics.