Oct 06, 2009

betashop Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor’s Perspective: If you’re a data junky like me, this is porn. (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

Micro Persuasion Jakob Nielsen studies the usability of RSS feeds and social network streams for professionals and finds that ... "Users like the simplicity of messages that pass into oblivion over time, but were frequently frustrated by unscannable writing, overly frequent postings, and their inability to locate companies on social netwo (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

ReadWriteWeb As part of the lead-up to our inaugural event this Thursday 15th October, The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, we're pleased to announce our list of the top 100 Real-Time Web companies. A couple of weeks ago we posted our top 50. Thanks to the comments on that post and messages we received in the days after, we discovered 50 (Read More)

Sep 18, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Real-time computing is not new. This is the third generation of real-time:• First generation: was done on a single processor, usually for process control in military systems.• Second generation: within a Local Area Network, usually for a financial trading room.• Third generation: applied across the whole Web/Internet, what (Read More)

Oct 06, 2009

TechCrunch This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, a on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup that helps online businesses measure, manage, and monetize better. He was previously a venture capital analyst and currently serves as an advisor to several New York startups. Robe (Read More)

Oct 01, 2009

The Steve Rubel Lifestream You can't spend any time on Twitter without geeks lusting after Google Wave. Here's my quick take...it has as much chance catching on as RSS did.I have had a Google Wave sandbox account since late July. It's slick to be sure. However, what I keep asking myself is this: what problem does it solve? In many ways it's overly c (Read More)

Sep 28, 2009

ReadWriteWeb As part of our lead-up to The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, which is just over two weeks away, in this post we're listing 50 leading companies of the Real-Time Web. Like any list, it is bound to be missing some worthy companies - so we invite you to list more in the comments. Our aim is to unveil the top 100 Real-Time Web (Read More)

Aug 14, 2009

readwriteweb Hype cycles, like all cycles, are getting shorter. People want to be the first to say, "You heard it here first, folks: this or that hot thing you hear about all the time is a bunch of hot air."We love to debunk myths and prick bubbles as much as the next set of pundits, but we think the real-time Web is for real. Financial (Read More)

Aug 10, 2009

Alt Search Engines By John Park, Founder of FeedmilAs the web continues to grow on an unprecedented scale, the way people consume information is evolving too. Content is increasingly being delivered in real-time streams, and it is now common to discover information by subscribing to RSS, following twitter status updates, or reading facebook s (Read More)

May 12, 2009

Submitted by Yonggoghi from Google Reader: 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 (Read More)

Jun 27, 2009

TechCrunch Do venture investors with the biggest and best networks end up producing the best returns? An academic paper from a few years ago by Yael Hochberg, Alexander Ljungqvist, and Yang Lu titled “Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance” (embedded at the bottom of this post) suggests that is the (Read More)

Jun 26, 2009

TechCrunch One of the hottest areas of search right now is real time search, which attempts to find results based on what is happening right now. Twitter’s search engine fast becoming one of the key ways to navigate the service and discover what people are thinking about any subject at any given moment. Facebook is testing out ways (Read More)

Feb 15, 2009

TechCrunch What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right nowabout any imaginab (Read More)

May 12, 2009

ReadWriteWeb 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 (Read More)

Jun 20, 2009

Alt Search Engines Original post appeared here:(Recently), the Silicon Valley Software Development Forum (SDForum) Search SIG held a panel discussion on “Real-time Search” with Gerry Campbell is CEO of the soon-to-be-launched (now launched -ed.) Collecta; Vik Singh, the creator and architect of Yahoo! BOSS; Akhil Wable, engineering search lea (Read More)

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