Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: No.2 Real-time Internet

Original author: ReedWriteWeb
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Ken Formm wrote an interesting article for ReadWriteWeb about the Internet in real time. In it, he explains that such an Internet is a new form of communication, he creates a new type of content that is close to you, public, and carries an explicit socializing component.

One of the first leaders in the internet in real time is FriendFeed, which has become very popular. One of the founders, Paul Buchheit (who developed the first version of Gmail when he worked at Google) told RWW in May that the open discussions that appear on FriendFeed will be a powerful new way to communicate, as well as IM, email and blogs.
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All in real time, now.
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Undoubtedly, we should start our product review with the super popular Twitter microblogging service. In March, he celebrated his 3rd birthday, Marshall Kirkpatrick believes that the most interesting thing that happened to Twitter did not happen as a service, but as a platform.

Anyway, the real-time Internet is not just Twitter. The real-time Internet has changed the strategies and products of almost all major Internet companies in 2009.
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Google may be a little late , but in May 2009, Larry Page announced that Google should work better with the Internet in real time. The process has been started. For example, Google supports the PubSubHubbub project .which delivers RSS feeds much faster (almost instantly). PubSubHubbub is already speeding up Google reade r.

While we wait for Google to improve its search on the Internet in real time, you can improve your search results by adding a plugin from Twitter.

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In March, Facebook launched a new version of the site, with a stream on the user's home page in which real-time updates of your friends appear. And although users did not like itFacebook continues to surf the web in real time. In June, he introduced a new search interface that allows you to search for content from people, organizations immediately after it is published on Facebook. On Facebook, this is called “up-to-the-minute” search results in other words, real-time Internet searches.
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Meanwhile, in April FriendFeed introduced a redesigned interface that was even more focused on real-time updates. The most impressive new feature was improved filters, which made it easier to create streams based on keywords, groups, sets of friends. FriendFeed filters have become a powerful tool for using the Internet in real time.

In August, Facebook strengthened its position by absorbing FriendFeed. This takeover has given Facebookmany powerful technologies, we don’t yet know how Facebook will use them.

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In August, Yahoo’s influential Delicious social bookmarking service was completely redone . Now it is a real-time news tracker. A new homepage was launched combining user activity and cross-links on Twitter.

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Real-time updates are ongoing, earlier today all the blogs on the WordPress.com platform and on WordPress.org that support RSSFeed received the new RSSCloud technology .

Conclusion

In May, Marshall Kirkpatrick identified 3 forms of real-time Internet value: atmosphere, automation, appearance of content, in August Bernard Lunn compared them with the world of a trader.

2009 was largely a real-time Internet. But this is only the beginning of the era, because we are still looking for ways to use the vast amount of information that we create. What innovative applications will we create on the basis of the Internet in real time? We will get the answer to this question in the coming years.

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