Archive for the ‘Real-Time Web’ Category

A New Year in the Information Age

Hope everyone had a happy new year and fine holiday season all across the world. Like many where I reside, I have been away from business and spending time with family while over-celebrating in this traditional party season of the west. But those are just good memories now (except for that episode where I missed [...]

January 4, 2010   Posted in: Enlightenment, Information Age, Mashups, Post industrial age, Real-Time Web, protocol society, technical communicator  One Comment

Adapting to the Information Age

The times they are a changin’.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan lately. My fifteen year-old son finds him cool. It’s a strange revolving world.
Regardless of my motives, the Bob prediction of the ‘60s reappears 50 years later with the same growing urgency. Socially, economically, and technologically, the symptoms and repercussions [...]

December 7, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Content Strategist, Information, Information Age, Information management, Knowledge management, Real-Time Web, Semantic Web  2 Comments

The real-time Web, the veracity of data, and social graphs

ReadWriteWeb has published a very interesting article where they point out that the real-time Web is “a new form of communication” that has increased “the velocity of information within the Web data system by an order of magnitude.” This phenomenon, they point out, “is not unlike how stock and options trading has been conducted for [...]

October 14, 2009   Posted in: Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web  No Comments

The people-centric web

According to ArcticStartup, the web is at a new crossroad where it is dominated by “dynamic, portable friend lists and non-brand-mediated identities that can be used across a range of standards-compliant websites.” This, according to the article, is in contrast to the “document-centric web dominated by static pages” to which we have grown accustomed. In [...]

September 15, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web  No Comments

Top 5 web trends of 2009

According to ReadWriteWeb, the top 5 trends of 2009 are:

Structured Data – structuring information using Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data
The Real-Time Web – “a new form of communication” that creates an immediate, public body of content and “has an explicit social graph associated with it”
Personalization – “an organization layer for users on top of [...]

September 14, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Real-Time Web, Semantic Data, Semantic Web  No Comments

The atomic nature of the real-time web

ReadWriteWeb reports:

…we can identify that the real-time Web…

is a new form of communication,
creates a new body of content,
is real time,
is public and has an explicit social graph associated with it,
carries an implicit model of federation.

One consequence of the 140-character limit (and a key reason why the real-time stream is so easily adaptable to [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Real-Time Web  No Comments

The business impact of real-time information

Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle write:

…real-time information is having a huge impact on business. When your customers are declaring their intent all over the Web (and on Twitter) – either through their actions or their words, companies must both listen and join the conversation.

September 2, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Real-Time Web  No Comments

Transformation from page models to real-time streams

Jeff Hanson theorizes:

The transformation that is taking place across the Internet from a page model to a real-time stream model will surely be affected by [the popularity ranking] phenomenon. Enterprises must be ready to embrace this new model and plan their web presence accordingly or be swept aside by the ever-changing waves of popularity. [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web  No Comments

Real-time web defined

Real-time web: According to Ton Zijlstra:
Real time is when you get your data stream through the web the instant the data is generated. Examples would be microblogging tools like Jaiku and Twitter, photo upload sites (Flickr, 23, Twitpic), live video (Qik, Seesmic), but also things like SMS (Treasuremytext.com). Another example would be the number [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Real-Time Web  No Comments

Real-time stream flow

Jeremiah Owyang reports:

When you think about it, information travels faster on Twitter around the globe faster than the speed of sound. This is also very scary.
Today, Friendfeed launched it”s much anticipated redesign, and it resembles a real time flow of information. It resembles twitter like input screens, then social objects flow down the stream, [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web  No Comments