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Why Real Time Web?
Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: The Real-Time Web
0 diggs digg Our opening post was about Structured Data . In this article we look at probably the most hyped trend of 2009: the Real-Time Web . It has become a core part of many Internet products this year: Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Google, Delicious, Wordpress, and many others.
You said you wanted to be told, right away , about any online artifacts that crossed a threshold of popularity within a certain group of people in your field. That has just occurred, so it's time to watch the replay of how it got so hot, evaluate its usefulness and decide whether to bring this emergent phenomenon into the work you were doing before you were interrupted, drop the former for the latter or return to your original focus. How would you like this to be your job description? It could well be - if the red hot Real Time Web keeps showing up on sites all around the internet.
3 Models of Value in the Real Time Web
Real time search is nothing new. It is a problem we’ve been working on for at least ten years, and we likely will still be trying to solve it ten years from now. It’s a really hard problem which we used to call “ live web search,” which was coined by Allen Searls ( Doc’s son ) and refers to the web that is alive, with time as an element, in all factors including search. The name change to “real time search” seems a way to refocus attention toward the issue of time as an important element of filters. We are still presented with the same set of problems we’ve had at least the past ten years.
Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will, It’s Gonna Take
There is a lot of hype surrounding the real-time web, and much of the feeding frenzy reminds me of the RSS space four years ago — though there is a lot of potential, there is also a lot of noise. How do you navigate through it all and which developments should you be paying attention to? What are the emerging trends for companies and entrepreneurs to watch for? Here are four real-time web trends that I’m tracking.
4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web
And as befits our demographic, we grown ups are using our iPhones to tweet that same anticipation , but only – of course – after we’d checked in to the venue on Foursquare. “Wow. The real-time web is awesome”, I remarked, to no one in particular. And Weezer, to their credit, agreed with my sarcasm. After their first song – Hash Pipe, if you’re interested – Rivers Cuomo came to the front of the stage to talk to the audience.
NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying
Just after previous Leweb edition....
Why? They didn’t even know that a real-time web was evolving on Twitter and FriendFeed and that there are dozens of tools like Twhirl and TweetDeck that are built on top of those too. Which is why I’m writing this post.
Mills says about half the IBM population microblogs today, using incremental additions to Sametime built not on open source but what Mills delineates as open standards. He sees microblogging as a way of triggering people finding people, with swarming around topics and events producing positive collisions. When I suggest he and his troops are real adopters of realtime, he suggests the word “fanatics.” This is a long-time IBM strategy of amortizing its development (and acquistion in the case of Lotus) costs with internal usage, then rolling the results of that experience out to its army of customers.
IBM’s Steve Mills on RealTime
The Real Time Web makes your Life Safer
So I don’t worry about kidnappings. If I lived in my native Argentina, for example, I would be writing a different post. But in Spain, as everywhere, there is common crime and being part of the real time web makes it more likely, for example, for criminals to find out where my home is. My home has been published in magazines, appears on Google Earth/Maps and now that I have started taken photography lessons, I have published many pictures of our home as well . So is that a risk?
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