Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: The Real-Time Web. 3 Models of Value in the Real Time Web. Hey web DJ. Reach into your magic bag of search tools and pull out a big result - dripping with related ephemera born just moments ago. Those could hold the grain of information you're really looking for, or they could sparkle with data that changes your course of action in unexpected ways. Alert! Another factor has emerged, elsewhere on another site.
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. The Real Time Web is coming so fast we've hardly had any time to think about it yet. But what's the point? Ambiance Automation I certainly wasn't watching for the change. Emergence. Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will, It’s Gonna Take. This guest post is written by Mary Hodder, the founder Dabble. Prior to Dabble, Hodder consulted for a number of startups, did research at Technorati and wrote her masters thesis at Berkeley focusing on live web search looking at blog data.
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. In 2006, “The Living Web” Newsweek cover story by Steven Levy and Brad Stone poked at this issue for the first time in a national forum. 4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web. Bernard Moon is Managing Director of the Lunsford Group, which is a private holding company consisting of entities in technology, media, research & consulting, health care, and real estate. He blogs at Silicon Moon. 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. Please share in the comments any other real-time trends that you think will be big. 1. Real-time will play a major role in the future of online collaboration. Companies that are more efficient have an advantage whether within their walls or with their customers. 2. 3. 4.
German company Apnoti indexes real-time pricing for consumers in the U.S and Germany. NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying. A little before 9pm on Wednesday night and I’m standing on the ‘VIP’ balcony of San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom, holding a can of something called ‘MySpace Buzz’ and waiting for Weezer to take to the stage. It’s a weird scene, all told, and not just because I thought Weezer was dead. The bulk of the weirdness stems from the make-up of the crowd: a dozen feet below me in the main auditorium there are maybe a couple of thousand writhing teenagers – Weezer fans to a (wo)man, cheering and shouting and jumping and sweating and doing all the things I remember doing a little over a decade ago.
These are the invited fans; those lucky enough to have been chosen to attend this ‘secret show’, organised by MySpace. You know, for kids. Every so often one of the stage lights picks out a tiny puff of smoke in the crowd. Ah, you crazy kids and your pot: I feel like I’ve been transported back in time. By contrast, there are no kids up on the VIP balcony. Worse still, we’re told that this is the future. Just after previous Leweb edition.... The real time web is coming at us very quickly, but it exposes major problems in our RSS/Atom infrastructure. What is the real-time web? You can get a small taste of that by watching the 5,300+ people I’m watching in Real Time on friendfeed . The first time I saw the real-time web, I saw it when my tweets showed up on Twitter search and friendfeed within minutes. Sometimes within seconds. The problem is that our blogs don’t participate in the real-time web. For blogs that’s just fine.
But there’s a new expectation that we’re having thanks to Twitter. This works on Twitter and friendfeed, which were built on real-time principles (er, messaging principles) rather than Web principles. But when you try to hook the real-time web up to the old creaky RSS web, well, you see that the two aren’t very compatible. Today I tried to setup an ego feed where I could track stuff that uses my name from around the web in real time . So, what’s the answer? Well, the geeks are exploring two technologies. IBM’s Steve Mills on RealTime. As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we’re seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime.
Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. And while there are many familiar players talking and to some degree walking the RealTime walk, some have been busy for years building and deploying the fundamentals of this “overnight success.” A few weeks ago, I traveled to Las Vegas to attend IBM’s Information On Demand conference, and took the opportunity to sit down with Big Blue’s Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive of the IBM Software Group. In English that adds up to Steve being The Man at the helm of IBM’s embrace of Web Services, with the software group accounting for one quarter of IBM’s $100 billion business.
The Real Time Web makes your Life Safer. People frequently tell me that I should not disclose so much information about myself as it could potentially be used by criminals, kidnappers and the like to harm me or my family. Interestingly, it is mostly my German friends who tend to argue this point. Germans, as Americans, seem to have a skewed allocation of risk, worrying too much about unlikely risks, and being careless about others.
I have German friends who seriously speak to me about the danger of being kidnapped and then go on the autobahn and drive 200km/h without worries. I think differently. I believe that being public about your life, disclosing your address, your location, your habits, and learning a great deal about the habits of others, is not necessarily adding risk to your life. First of all, I should clarify that I live in Spain and that I have not heard of a single recent kidnapping case in Spain. Sharing is like wearing a seat belt. Lastly, there is Twitter. Bottom line? Realtimeweb. Real-Time Web.