socialmedian: Is Real-time the Future of the Web?

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Source: Mashable!

May 09, 2009

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It’s clear that the Web has altered how we as a society consume information. Not only has Internet communication made information more accessible, but social media has made it easier to organize, filter, and most of all, create. Yet with innovations like Twitter and microblogging, we’re reaching a point where the flow of information has become so heavy that the only way to really keep track of it is via real-time web tools.

With FriendFeed recently switching over to a real-time interface and demand for faster information, is real-time the future of the web? Can we as a society keep up with an ever-increasing amount of information? Or will we have to find better alternatives to filter out the information so only the most important stuff reaches us first?

The real-time evolution

Information’s growth and absorption has grown at an exponential rate. 500 years ago, information didn’t travel across the world in a single lifetime, more or less half a second. Just two decades ago, the primary way we received news was via television and newspapers. Today, the news

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