The Information Confluence
Listening last week to National Public Radio (NPR) in the U.S., I heard an author of a new book extol the almost supernatural advantages of blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and the rewards of Web 2.0 social networks. The new online access to the information frontier. It was all pretty compelling stuff. The author was an inveterate [...]
October 22, 2009
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Tags: blogging, context, data, Facebook, Information, information confluence, Knowledge, social networks, Twitter · Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Knowledge, Semantic Data, Semantic Web
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 [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: atomic, communication, discrete, federation, Real-Time Web, social graph, Twitter · Posted in: Real-Time Web
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
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Tags: business impace, Real-Time Web, Twitter · Posted in: Real-Time Web
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
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Tags: data stream, Flickr, Jaiku, Lifestreaming, microblogging, mobile, Qik, Real-Time Web, Seesmic, SMS, TomTom, Twitpic, Twitter · Posted in: Real-Time Web
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 [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: Friendfeed, Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web, stream, Twitter · Posted in: Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web