What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible. Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations.
The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's release of 500 million time-stamped Twitter messages for analysis. "You take this data, mash it up with any other very large corpus of data with timestamps," Flip Kromer of data marketplace Infochimps told us, "and you've got a web app. " Today's announcement of the availability of location data means the same thing: you take this data, mash it up with any other data with location information and you've got an app. 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. 039;s Top 5 Web Trends of 2009.