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Posts Tagged ‘real-time’

Twitter User Streams: Real-Time Is Back?

In: web2.0

14 Apr 2010

At Twitter’s developer conference, Chirp, they announced a new (or old) feature that has caught my interest: User streams. This new API will allow developers to stream twitter activity to end-users in real-time. This was demonstrated at the conference using the web version of Twitter and TweetDeck. As activity occured in the web browser, TweetDeck [...]

RSS Cloud Is Exciting News

In: web2.0|wordpress

8 Sep 2009

I’ve always been a big fan of real-time information on the internet. Ever since the early days of IRC and Usenet, I would prefer IRC since the entire experience was live and real-time. Usenet and forums had the delay factor. Yesterday, I read about the decision WordPress made to support RSS Cloud. What is RSS [...]

Twitter Trending Topics: Are They Useful?

In: web2.0

5 Aug 2009

The usefulness of Twitter trending topics has declined for me personally. All too often, I see people trying to “game” or “manipulate” the system to gain popularity. To me, the whole thing is null and void if it is contrived. Now that Twitter has brought these terms to the forefront, it seems the quest to [...]

BingTweets Mashes Up Twitter Trends And Search Results

In: web2.0

15 Jul 2009

Microsoft and Federated Media have partnered to create an interesting mashup called BingTweets. This site is in beta and offers a hands free experience on the latest trending topics on the web. After seeing this, I have a bit more respect for the efforts Microsoft is putting behind Bing and can only wonder how and [...]

The Challenge Of The Realistic Real-Time Web

In: web2.0

7 May 2009

Robert Scoble shared his desktop screens to give us a glimpse of how he consumes much of the information out there. It’s kind of scary: Do you think you could follow that? A lot of people see that and are intimidated. I believe this is going to be obstacle that the “real-time web” is going [...]

FriendFeed Filters Are The Star Of The Beta

In: web2.0

7 Apr 2009

Yesterday, the team over at FriendFeed made a radical move to their popular website, friendfeed.com. They turned the website into a giant river of ever-flowing information. For those of us who are familiar with the term, “real-time web”, we saw this as a positive step towards it becoming a reality. I’ve already blogged about ways [...]

Embed Your Real-time FriendFeed Activity On Your Blog

In: web2.0

22 Jan 2009

The real-time web is the buzzword of 2009. As technology advances, we become more impatient. We want our information and we want it 5 minutes ago. If a story is reported 2 hours after it happens, it’s ancient history in the age of Twitter and FriendFeed. I’m a big user of FriendFeed not only for [...]

7 Ways To Harness The Power Of Real-time FriendFeed

In: geek

16 Oct 2008

If you follow me, you know I’m a sucker for real-time communication technology such as IRC, IM/Jabber, AJAX. Twitter recently made me happy with their real-time election coverage over at election.twitter.com. Real-time is great for live events such as political debates, apple keynotes, or even watching a TV show or sports event. Yesterday, FriendFeed announced [...]


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