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Some people say that "the real-time web" could be the next generation of post-Google search. Social media tools have greatly increased not just the number of people posting content online but also the speed with which they are able to do so. Do we need a new search paradigm that prioritizes publishing freshness higher than page rank?

Google backers say that Google is already capable of indexing anything online mere moments after it's been published - but the user experience in search doesn't really feel "real time" right now. Movable Type consultant Mark Carey came up with a simple solution this weekend that could change your use of Google more than anything else has in a while.

The latest episode of RWW Live, today at 3.30pm PST, will be focused on online travel applications. We have executives from 4 great travel startups on the call: TripIt, Yapta, Dopplr and PlanetEye. In the show we'll be discussing how the Web is changing the way people travel for work and fun. It promises to be a fascinating discussion, so we hope you tune in to the show LIVE at 3.30pm PST Monday (6.30pm EST) on Calliflower or Facebook. You can also ask questions during the podcast, using the chat function.

The president's weekly video address was often called the 'YouTube address,' but after complaints from privacy activists, the White House has now decided to leave YouTube behind and use Akamai's content delivery network to embed the president's weekly address on the White House web site. The White House will still post videos to YouTube, but, by default, it now directs visitors to Vimeo instead of Google's streaming video service.

In this latest installment in our series on recommendation engines, we look at MyBuys - a company purely focused on providing recommendations services to retail websites. We've noted in previous posts in this series that each recommendations vendor has a different approach. What distinguishes MyBuys is that it takes a services approach and is not based on a single algorithm. We spoke to Paul Rosenblum, VP Products & Strategy at MyBuys, who told us that most companies in the recommendations market have a "pet algorithm". However MyBuys, according to Rosenblum, uses a variety of algorithms for different contexts and different kinds of retailers. "Fundamentally", Rosenblum told ReadWriteWeb, "we don't actually have a product [...] we have a service".

We'd like to welcome a new daily writer to our team of Web enthusiasts: Phil Glockner. Phil lives near Austin, Texas, and has been a part of the tech community there for over 10 years. He started his blog, Scribkin, after attending SXSW Interactive 2008. He's also been a contributer to Louis Gray's excellent blog. Phil will be a daily news writer for ReadWriteWeb, so expect to see a few posts a day from him during the weekdays. He'll also be attending SXSW 2009, along with our VP Content Dev Marshall Kirkpatrick.

When reading your RSS feeds, do you prefer a local application versus one that is online-only? If so, look no further than ShareFire. Besides being platform-independent (courtesy of Adobe Air), it is also completely free and open-source. It was created with article sharing in mind, as its name implies. According to its creators, Christian Cantrell and Dan Koestler, this was a priority.

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance," Steve Ballmer told USA Today a few years ago. Seems the CEO's perception of the iPhone and its potential success may have been just a little bit off.

According to the first detailed look at mobile browsing by Web metrics firm Net Applications, the iPhone dominates the mobile browsing market with a 66.61% share. But do the numbers add up?

Todd Dagres, founder of Spark Capital and one of the VCs that poured an additional $35 million into Twitter recently, finds it amusing when people talk about Twitter's lack of a business model.

"We think it's kind of funny," Dagres recently told Innovation Economy. "We know how we're going to do it, and we're very confident about how we're going to do it, and it's not necessarily in our interest to tell people how we're going to do it."

Vista, the overbearing and rigid operating system that many deemed Microsoft's greatest disaster, and others considered to be the beginning of the end for Microsoft, may have been exactly what the company needed. A hard lesson certainly, but also a shocking wake up call.

A video released by Microsoft's Business Division today demonstrates technologies that we do not generally associate with Microsoft. Intuitive, seamless and sexy, the future as Microsoft sees it, could just be its saving grace.