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Introduction to the Real-Time Web

2009-05-12T22:14:32Z

Real-time information delivery is fast emerging as one of the most important elements of our online experience. No more waiting for the Pony Express to deliver a parcel cross-country, no more waiting for web services to communicate from one polling instance to another. This is information being available to you at nearly the moment it's produced, whether you're watching for it or not.

Just this afternoon, Google declared real-time search to be one of the biggest unsolved challenges it faces. This morning the NYTimes put a link to a new real-time view of all its news stories on the front page of its site. Last night Facebook announced a new feature that will let users be notified instantly when their friends interact with media related to themselves on the site. This is big stuff, but what does it all mean? We offer below a collection of readings on the real-time web. Give these articles some time and you'll have a solid foundation to understand, discuss and act on this emerging paradigm.

]]> "Instant Messaging" as the Foundation of the Future of the Web

Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication?

In January of 2008 we looked at enterprise collaboration suite Jive Software and the company's belief that the Instant Messaging technology XMPP could serve as a foundation for the future of a real-time web. In that article we explained that just like AJAX has made web pages instantly responsive to clicks, without having to request a whole new web page from the server, an IM-style web could radically speed up collaboration online. If implemented well, it could make for a much more pleasing user experience, too: who would want to go back to a web without the responsive web pages that AJAX has enabled? Jive pointed to a number of examples of companies using the open-source real-time technology XMPP, including Tivo.

Experience it for Yourself

Make Google Real-Time With Twitter Search Add-on

The best way to understand the value of real-time information delivery may be to experience it yourself, and one of the easiest ways to do that is with Mark Carey's "Twitter on Google Search Results Pages" plugin. It's hot stuff and has honestly changed the way all of us here at ReadWriteWeb use Google more than anything else has in a long time.

See also:
Five Sites That Let You Experience the Real-Time Web Today
FriendFeed Opens the Floodgates with Real-Time Updates
TweetMeme Live: See What's Big on Twitter Right Now - TweetMeme is one of the most innovative players in real-time technology today and is a must-watch startup.
OneRiot Launches Alternative Twitter Search Engine - OneRiot just starting to do something that Google will no doubt aim to do as well: deep search into links shared across the real-time web (including outside of Twitter). Twitter worked with OneRiot to enable this new product launch.
Surchur Relaunches Their "Dashboard to the Now"
Real-Time News: PubSub Gets Ready for a Comeback

Big Picture: What It All Means for Our Future

Faster - Why Constant Stress Is Part of Our Future

In April 2008, ReadWriteWeb guest author Alex Iskold examined why the real-time web is inevitable and what it means for all of us. Just another of Alex's many mind-expanding articles over the years.

See also:
Three Models of Value in the Real-Time Web - Our discussion of how the real-time web will be leveraged by individuals and web services.
Baynote: Does Focusing on Real-Time Behavior Trump Amazon's Technology? - Recommendation engine Baynote believes it can move the economic needle with its real-time technology.

Other Resources Off-Site

We've written about the real-time web a lot, but these are some of our favorite resources written by other people.

Le Web '09 - this year's theme is... the real-time web. So watch that space.
Activity Streams Discussion Group - Though not explicitly focused on real time, this community movement to build a standard data format for delivering user activity streams from site to site is very related.
Mining the Thought Stream - Erick Schonfeld discusses the huge potential of sentiment tracking and topic search from real-time streams like Twitter. If you enjoy that, you might enjoy our post written two weeks earlier, How a Facebook Sentiment Engine Could be Huge.

Those are some of our favorite resources on this important topic. We'd love to learn about more from readers. Good luck to us all in the coming real-time web!

Title photo: Listen to BREAKING ATOMS on KZSC, Creative Commons by Flickr user Heart of Oak.

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2011-03-16T09:12:31Z

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2011-03-08T17:15:26Z

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2011-03-03T16:10:45Z

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2011-02-16T10:28:42Z

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2011-02-09T11:52:32Z

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2011-01-21T10:22:59Z

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2011-01-14T09:40:42Z

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2011-01-07T16:20:55Z

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2010-12-31T00:07:29Z

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2010-12-17T15:57:35Z

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2010-12-16T20:58:49Z

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2010-12-11T14:25:17Z

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Comment from tuz on 2010-12-04

2010-12-04T16:14:21Z

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Comment from سعودي كول on 2010-12-03

2010-12-03T11:07:20Z

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Comment from Sulena sexy on 2010-11-25

2010-11-25T21:00:58Z

Obama, signaling that the DISCLOSE act will be yet another data point in the Dem argument against the GOP, hails the bill for ensuring that "corporations who spend money on American elections are accountable first and foremost to the American people.

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2010-11-25T01:40:35Z

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2010-11-23T21:09:08Z

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Comment from tono on 2010-11-23

2010-11-23T14:27:22Z

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Comment from blackberry on 2010-11-15

2010-11-15T22:34:14Z

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2010-11-03T19:25:44Z

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2010-11-01T06:56:52Z

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2010-10-28T19:13:12Z

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2010-10-25T18:43:10Z

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2010-10-21T14:23:16Z

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2010-10-21T09:03:19Z

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haşere ilaçlama ve
Böcek İlaçlama uygulamalarımız ile hizmetinizdeyiz.

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2010-10-17T10:07:28Z

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2010-10-17T10:04:54Z

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2010-10-17T09:58:59Z

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Comment from Estetik on 2010-10-14

2010-10-14T10:58:46Z

But, according to an article in Politico, Obama has recently been engaged in a little apple-polishing that comes in time for the midterm elections. He invited teachers to the White House and pushed Congress to pass a massive spending bill not tied to accountability that probably saved the jobs of thousands of teachers all over the country

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2010-10-13T22:43:39Z

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2010-10-13T22:40:37Z

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2010-10-05T18:47:12Z

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2010-10-05T18:45:59Z

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2010-10-05T09:11:01Z

Böcek İlaçlama şirketi olarak günün her saati 7 gün 24 saat böcek ve haşereye karşı sizlerin yanındayız.
Ekonomik fiyatımız ile bütçenizi sarsmadan, garantili bir şekilde, sağlığınızla oynamadan profesyonel elemanlarımız ve Sağlık bakanlığı onaylı ilaçlarımızla daima hizmetinizdeyiz.
İlaçlama Firması olarak, evleriniz, arabalarınız, iş yerleriniz, bağ ve bahçeleriniz, bodrum ve çatı aralarını garantili bir şekilde son sistem ilaçlama aletlerimiz ile ilaçlıyoruz.
İlaçlama şirketi olarak İstanbul Avrupa ve Anadolu Yakası, İzmir, İzmit (Kocaeli) de her türlü haşere ilaçlama ve Böcek İlaçlama uygulamalarımız ile hizmetinizdeyiz.

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2010-09-29T16:19:37Z

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2010-09-29T16:18:03Z

not tied to accountability that probably saved the jobs of thousands of teachers all over the

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2010-09-29T16:15:55Z

tied to accountability that probably saved

Comment from سعودي كول on 2010-09-29

2010-09-29T16:14:05Z

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Comment from سعودي كول on 2010-09-27

2010-09-27T16:40:14Z

invited teachers to the White House and pushed Congress to pass a massive spending bill not tied to accountability that probably saved the jobs of thousands of teachers all over the country obama.

Comment from Film. İndir on 2010-09-23

2010-09-23T20:19:37Z

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2010-09-23T06:26:11Z

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2010-09-20T08:15:49Z

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2010-09-19T03:16:54Z

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Comment from شات سعوي on 2010-09-12

2010-09-13T04:19:26Z

whether reading, and thinking about that which has been read, happens. If more is the result, then ‘yay’.
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Comment from technology on 2010-09-05

2010-09-05T14:45:35Z

All I care about, is whether reading, and thinking about that which has been read, happens. If more is the result, then ‘yay’. From what I’ve heard about the use of their print collection, they pretty much had nothin’ to lose.

Comment from Fenster on 2010-09-02

2010-09-02T10:08:11Z

this is just so crazy, lol, i dont want to have this real time thing

Comment from prefabrik on 2010-09-01

2010-09-01T10:17:01Z

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Comment from شات جده on 2010-08-28

2010-08-28T15:10:25Z

Comment from ArchiveTR on 2010-08-24

2010-08-24T22:43:37Z

We believe real-time search is yet another over hyped concept.

Comment from sinema çekimi indir on 2010-08-15

2010-08-16T05:59:37Z

Real time is overrated with abysmal signal to noise ratio.

Comment from hotfile indir on 2010-08-09

2010-08-10T00:44:32Z

We believe real-time search is yet another over hyped concept.

Comment from Roop on 2010-08-01

2010-08-02T06:27:40Z

Thanks for the information shared here. that was an interesting and informative. I had a good experience by participating in the Adobe DevSummit in 2009 and looking forward to attend Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010 as well. AFPS 2010 is the single largest Flash Platform conference in India which features topics like Flash, Flex, Flash Platform, AIR 2.5, Andriod, RIA, LiveCycles, PHP and more. I found the information about the conference from adobesummit.com

Comment from estetik on 2010-07-13

2010-07-13T18:49:12Z

Real time is overrated with abysmal signal to noise ratio.

Comment from Rohit on 2010-04-14

2010-04-14T07:09:32Z

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Comment from Etheridge on 2010-03-16

2010-03-16T18:17:06Z

Comment from Sanchez on 2010-03-16

2010-03-16T18:15:50Z

I am a firm believer in the value of internationalization. When I was in college my experaince working with students and staff from other nations really opened up my mind to working outside of the US. I now live in Panama and run a successful buisness here.

Comment from Caldarella on 2010-03-14

2010-03-15T03:46:17Z

It if needs to be done, then purchase the right from the copyright holder. The perceived needs of one person do not impart on obligation on someone else.

Comment from kala on 2010-03-14

2010-03-15T03:44:51Z

Comment from Arslanian on 2010-03-14

2010-03-15T03:43:50Z

Thanks for mentioning my article. I wanted to pass along that at the beginning of the year (after rights revert from Infotoday back to me) a pdf version of the article will be available at our page dedicated to that study . We’ll be posting the final study report there shortly as well.

Comment from araba on 2009-12-21

2009-12-21T08:26:35Z

Selam

Comment from ugg on 2009-09-10

2009-09-10T08:10:59Z

In that article we explained that just like AJAX has made web pages instantly responsive to clicks, without having to request a whole new web page from the server, an IM-style web could radically speed up collaboration online.

Comment from chat on 2009-07-05

2009-07-05T10:06:19Z

SOHBET

Comment from Lance on 2009-05-14

2009-05-14T12:36:00Z

what about this new search engine, it looks amazing.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/05/blog_epicenter_0511_wolframlevy/

Comment from vicaya on 2009-05-13

2009-05-13T18:26:27Z

Real time is overrated with abysmal signal to noise ratio.

Comment from Pierre on 2009-05-13

2009-05-13T08:33:13Z

Hi Marshall,

We believe real-time search is yet another over hyped concept.

The big deal is *discovery*, not search when it comes to the real-time web. You can't be actively searching for something you don't know is happening...

Comment from Dr.Mani on 2009-05-13

2009-05-13T08:30:55Z

There goes my afternoon!

Off to explore those links, thanks Marshall ;-)

All success
Dr.Mani

Comment from Adam Green on 2009-05-12

2009-05-13T03:03:34Z

It's clear that realtime is the 2009 version of widgets. Remember them, Marshall? Realtime is cool, and I love watching the Twitter stream for keywords in Tweetdeck, but then I'm a super geek myself. The vast majority of normal people just need information to help them get through the day, like deciding which painkiller to give their kids. I recently wrote up the issue of Motrin's ad disaster still being prominent in Google's search, and the fact that 165,000 people do a search for Motrin each month:
http://www.alertrank.com/mrgooglealerts/2009/05/10/realtime-search-vs-permanent-reputation/

In the long run, more purchasing decisions will be made through Google searches, making a brand's permanent reputation more important than their realtime search results.

Comment from Will on 2009-05-12

2009-05-13T01:04:45Z

Nice post, although I have to admit the use of Main Source's album cover drew me in...

Comment from David Banes on 2009-05-12

2009-05-13T00:03:26Z

We're offering an XMPP 'pipe' that businesses can subscribe to that ends in an XMPP desktop app that integrates IM, micro-blogging and anything else delivered via XMPP.

This service allows companies to apply their corporate filtering and archiving policies to the XMPP data stream in much the same way that our managed email security customers do.

The early release of the desktop app will be a free download from ximpp.com