Top 5 Web Trends 2009: No.2 Online Real-Time

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, it creates a new type of content that is close to you, public, and carries an obvious socializing component.

One of the first Internet leaders 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 discussion that appears on FriendFeed will be a new powerful way to communicate, just like IM, mail and blogs.


All in real time, Now.

Undoubtedly, we should start our product review with a super popular service microblogging twitter. In March, he celebrated his 3rd birthday, Marshall Kirkpatrick believes that the most interesting thing that happened with Twitter was not as a service, but as a platform.
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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.

Google may be a bit late , but in May 2009 Larry Page said that Google should work better with the Internet in real time. The process has been launched. For example, Google supports the PubSubHubbub project, which delivers an RSS subscription much faster (almost instantly). PubSubHubbub is already speeding up the work of Google reade r.

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


In March, Facebook launched a new version of the site, with a stream on the user's home page, in which your friends' updates appear in real time. And although users did not like it, Facebook continues to engage in the Internet in real time. In June, he presented a new search interface that allows people to search for content from people, organizations, right after it is published on Facebook. On Facebook, this is called “up-to-the-minute” search results — in other words, a real-time Internet search.


Meanwhile, in April, FriendFeed introduced a reworked interface, further focused on real-time updates. The most impressive innovation was the improved filters that made it easier to create streams based on keywords, groups, sets of friends. Filters from FriendFeed have become a powerful tool for using the Internet in real time.

In August, Facebook strengthened its position by swallowing FriendFeed. This takeover has given Facebook a lot of powerful technologies. We do not yet know how Facebook will take advantage of them.


In August, Yahoo's influential social bookmarking service was completely redone . Now this is a real-time news tracker. A new home page has been launched, connecting user activity and cross-references to Twitter.


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

Conclusion

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

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