Realtimesearch. Conversations. The Golden Triangle of Tech Applies to eLearning Solutions too! The question I get the most these days is, "Brent, what's the next big thing you see out there in eLearning". The simple answer is, "not much". But that doesn't mean there isn't exciting innovation happening. The big innovation over the last year has not been a new technologie or app, but the convergence of some, or many existing technologies. Alone they are simply isolated fun little apps, but combined with several other apps or technologies they begin to take shape into the powerful life-changing tools they were meant to be. And that magic convergence has recently been given a name: The Golden Triangle.
I stumbled onto a blog post from A VC blog. MOBILE, the first of the 3 sides is obvious. The second side of the triangle, and only slightly less cool, is SOCIAL. And lastly we have the REAL-TIME completing the third side of the triangle. I feel like many people are already learning in a personal environment that reflects the golden triangle with the existing tools.
The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 2. This is part 2 of a three-part series on the fundamental characteristics of the real-time Web. In part 1 we looked at how the real-time Web is a new form of communication and creates a new body of content. The immediacy of the Twitter channel is a third fundamental characteristic of the real-time Web and one of its prime currencies, not surprising given the name of the space. Because of demand within the eco-system, quite a bit of effort is being made on storing, slicing, dicing, and disseminating information as quickly as possible. The fundamental implication of this activity (without any explicit markers being laid down) is that the velocity of information within the Web data system has just increased by an order of magnitude. The pipes are moving data at the same rate: the speed of your data connection has not changed (although it is getting faster because of an independent effort by cable companies, telcos, and the like).
Unintended Consequences Social Graphs, Reputation, and Trust. Real Time: The Web's New Prime Time. NEW YORK The Internet was always fast. Google made a point during its rise to prominence to detail -- to the millisecond -- just how quickly it delivered a search result. And, as we all know, the Web has gotten even faster. Real-time communications channels like Twitter are pushing the Internet into "real time," where communication and information flow nonstop. This presents advertisers with a dizzying array of opportunities -- and a daunting number of challenges. Marketers "are built like battleships for long, sustained warfare, [but] this is guerrilla warfare," said Lisa Bradner, a senior analyst at Forrester Research. One of the most intense challenges is the new speed with which messages need to be crafted.
HP, for instance, using tools from Yahoo and Tumri, recently ran a campaign with more than 20,000 ad permutations. Another way to make display ads more real time is to use live video. Continue to next page → Consumers also expect marketers to respond quickly no matter the issue. Notifixious' Superfeeder: Getting Closer to the Real-Time Web - ReadWriteWeb. RSS feeds have become the backbone of the Web 2.0 movement, but as we are moving towards a real-time experience on the web, RSS is starting to show its age.
To update your subscriptions, you have to regularly poll these feeds. This, of course, is a major problem for RSS readers and notification services which often have to deal with a substantial lag before new posts and messages appear. The newest service that tries to tackle this problem is Notifixious, but as Notifixious founder Julien Genestoux explains, a lot of problems still need to be fixed before ubiquitous real-time notifications can become a reality. To tackle these issues, Notifixious is now building its own 'superfeeder,' which it hopes will be able to overcome some of these problems. The company is also planning to make these updates available to the community by providing access to its own real-time XMPP notifications and SUP feeds to third-party developers in the future.
Pull: RSS Pull Smarter Push: XMPP.