- March 17th, 2009
- Filed under Technology
A snapshot from Pepsi's real-time keyword swarm from SXSW
Take half of Twitter’s activity base, bring them together and you have SXSW. This group of people are just some of the many that are driving what we will all know as the real-time web. To the left you can see a screen shot I took this morning from a real-time keyword swarm driven by Twitter and SXSW attendees (compliments of Phil’s Pharmacy).
Twitter has been the source of many of these popups. You can find a real-time evolving tag cloud of what’s popular right now, or if you are a finance junkie like me, get bleeding edge news and opinion on every stock in your portfolio. Real-time updates on the real-time web anyone? Finally, bring them all together on your desktop with TweetDeck.
Bringing it all together with TweetDeck
Facebook has jumped on the boat as well with the recent updates to user’s profile pages. The emphasis has moved solely to the latest updates from your friends. Video sharing site UStream.tv has pushed the envelope by offering free streaming of live video to anyone.
Facebook's recent changes to promote real-time activity
Internet users are being groomed to have an expectation of receiving information as it is generated. In an age where e-mail is the new snail mail, could a start-up with a decent semantics engine make Reuters tremble?
March 17th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I think Reuters is safe until editing and fact checking become automated processes.