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Debating ‘Real-time Messaging in the Enterprise: Here We Go Again’

Back in August, Larry Hawes wrote a post entitled ‘Real-time Messaging in the Enterprise: Here We Go Again‘, and I suggested to him at…

by Stowe Boyd Sep 28, 2015 - 12:43 PM PST

IFTTT launches 3 new apps to create an easy button for the web

An old UI in software form

For the last few years If This Then That (IFTTT) has been the place to go if you wanted to customize your…

by Stacey Higginbotham Feb 19, 2015 - 6:00 AM PST

Is Twitter the worst place or the best after someone famous dies? I think it’s the latter

Some argue that social networks like Twitter are the worst possible place after a celebrity like Robin Williams dies, because they cheapen the experience of mourning by making it public — but I think they can actually enhance it

by Mathew Ingram Aug 12, 2014 - 3:41 PM PST

New Relic debuts its next act: Insights real-time analytics

New Relic is launching Insights real-time analytics tool in a bid to bring smart data analytics to mere mortals.

by Barb Darrow Jul 10, 2014 - 6:01 AM PST

Why the rise of sites devoted to explanatory journalism is a trend worth celebrating

An increasing number of new-media startups — and even new projects by existing media outlets — are aimed at bringing context, background and analysis to the news instead of just trying to be the first to report something, and that’s a very beneficial development

by Mathew Ingram Feb 28, 2014 - 11:27 AM PST

Qubole is offering Facebook’s Presto query engine as a service

Facebook’s open source engine for interactive queries on Hadoop is now available as a cloud service thanks to startup Qubole. Facebook claims Presto is 10 times faster than Hive for most queries.

by Derrick Harris Jan 10, 2014 - 2:43 PM PST

Twitter’s IPO #pops, Microsoft’s CEO search narrows and people love fonts

On the podcast this week: Twitter’s big piles of money, Microsoft’s small pile of potential CEOs, and the surprising popularity of typefaces.

by Chris Albrecht Nov 8, 2013 - 12:35 AM PST

Three reasons why the Semantic Web has failed

The focus on the semantic web was fun, but ultimately missed the big picture, which is people care not about knowledge graphs but about the people and current events happening in their social graphs.

by Dominiek ter Heide, Bottlenose Nov 3, 2013 - 10:30 AM PST

How Path engineers hacked their way to a fast, scalable messaging service

Path engineers put a lot of effort into writing the app’s private messaging feature. They detail the steps they took to make the product just right in a new blog post.

by Jordan Novet Aug 5, 2013 - 12:00 PM PST

If you don’t like the chaos of breaking news, you should probably stay off Twitter

As with so many other news events, there was plenty of speculation and misinformation flowing on Twitter about the crash of an airplane at San Francisco airport — but for better or worse, that is just the way the news works now.

by Mathew Ingram Jul 8, 2013 - 3:26 PM PST

Research shows Twitter could be a tool for aid workers during events like the Boston bombings

A group of Harvard researchers who looked at information flows on Twitter during the Boston bombings came to the conclusion the network could be useful during such events for aid workers and emergency personnel.

by Mathew Ingram Jul 4, 2013 - 2:17 PM PST

Twitter takes another step toward television with Viacom deal

Twitter and Viacom have announced a partnership that demonstrates the social media site’s growing reach.

by Eliza Kern Jun 19, 2013 - 11:29 AM PST

Ad tech firm Triggit says exchange is “Facebook’s Adwords”

Facebook’s advertising efforts have produced mixed results so far. Now, one of its ad tech partners says it has more evidence the social network has cracked the code by selling ads in real time in users’ newsfeeds.

by Jeff Roberts Jun 10, 2013 - 9:01 AM PST

IBM has a new protocol (and a box) for the internet of things

IBM has a new box for the internet of things, but it’s the MQTT protocol inside that box that’s worth a long look. The protocol could become the messaging layer for the internet of things.

by Stacey Higginbotham Apr 29, 2013 - 11:00 AM PST

Facebook vs. Twitter: How do you like your social news feed, filtered or unfiltered?

Facebook is making changes to its news feed in order to try and filter content better for users, while Twitter continues to provide a largely unfiltered experience. Which one is better? That depends on how you use it.

by Mathew Ingram Mar 7, 2013 - 7:48 AM PST

How switching to Android helped me deal with my addiction to connectedness

There are many things I like better about my Android phone compared to my old iPhone, but one of the big ones is something that is missing: namely, all those irritating real-time notifications

by Mathew Ingram Feb 18, 2013 - 9:04 AM PST

HStreaming ready to show the world its real-time Hadoop

HStreaming has raised $1 million and is ready to take its message of real-time processing on Hadoop mainstream. In a world tired of batch processing only, that message should be well received.

by Derrick Harris Feb 14, 2013 - 9:00 AM PST

Search as Twitter historical archive? More like Twitter’s greatest hits

Want to hunt for a specific term or re-live an event on Twitter? The company has expanded its search capabilities, but you still won’t find all tweets ever on the service — Twitter is developing its own algorithm to surface tweets based on interest and engagement.

by Eliza Kern Feb 13, 2013 - 5:22 PM PST

As the firehose matures, Twitter tightens grip on valuable asset

PeopleBrowsr, a company that provides marketing analytics based on the full stream of data from Twitter called the firehose, is suing Twitter for access to that stream. While Twitter is closing down who has access to the firehose, it shows where the company is headed.

by Eliza Kern Nov 29, 2012 - 4:39 PM PST

Boundary hopes to show you the web and your app in real time

If your application’s infrastructure is based in the cloud, then monitoring that infrastructure requires a cloud-based product as well. But monitoring the performance of cloud-based apps and the clouds they are hosted on requires a lot of data. Terabytes of it.

by Stacey Higginbotham Nov 27, 2012 - 8:12 AM PST

How to handle a firehose: An interview with DataSift’s CTO

DataSift raised another $15 million in venture capital, bringing its total investment to nearly $30 million. In this video from Structure: Europe, DataSift Founder and CTO Nick Halstead describes how the company handles the firehose of social media data it receives.

by Derrick Harris Nov 13, 2012 - 9:40 AM PST

The world according to Twitter as seen through a high-performance computer

A big brain computer tracks Twitter’s global heartbeat during the 2012 elections and Hurricane Sandy in a research project created by two Illinois academics proving that real-time analysis of unstructured data is possible if you only have enough cores, cache and networking I/O.

by Stacey Higginbotham Nov 13, 2012 - 7:00 AM PST

We need to prevent insights from dying in the big data avalanche

To take full advantage of big data, businesses must think about how to use those mountains of data as they come into the network, not store it and hope to gather insights weeks or even months later. To do this, we need new tools.

by Anukool Lakhina, Guavus Oct 6, 2012 - 10:30 AM PST

FedEx CIO shares his thoughts on the architecture required for “epic data”

FedEx has always dealt in big data, but its CIO Rob Carter isn’t worried about more. In a conversation with reporters he explained how FedEx has coped in the past and where he things the future of data storage is heading.

by Stacey Higginbotham Oct 5, 2012 - 9:15 AM PST

Nodeable gives Hadoop a real-time boost with StreamReduce

Nodeable is now offering a cloud service for processing and analyzing streams of data in real time. Its new flagship service, called StreamReduce, is built atop Twitter’s open source Storm framework and acts as Hadoop’s faster, nimbler front-end partner that delivers users insights as they happen.

by Derrick Harris Jul 18, 2012 - 8:29 AM PST

Like Chartbeat for video: Ooyala gets real-time analytics

Real-time data is coming to video, courtesy of Ooyala: The video platform vendor is launching a real-time analytics dashboard for big video publishers this summer, allowing them to adjust live video streams as needed. The offering is powered by technology open sourced by Twitter.

by Janko Roettgers Jun 22, 2012 - 12:01 AM PST

The value of co-creation

The teams at Rally Software and Getty Images demonstrate that co-creation is not only possible, but likely necessary, to be a success in business today. As they show, co-creation helps reduce barriers between what a business needs and what it can get from its suppliers.

by t2 Jun 5, 2012 - 12:21 PM PST

Twitter shows when we tweet and explains why its search sucks

According to new research by Twitter’s data science team, Twitter search is used often as a tool for finding breaking news in real time, which makes it difficult for Twitter to assign relevance to any given tweet or topic in the long run.

by Derrick Harris Jun 4, 2012 - 12:30 PM PST

Dataminr builds a Twitter-powered early warning system

Dataminr, a New York-based start-up that has been quietly building a global sensor network powered by Twitter, is now introducing its technology to the public today, showing how its real-time engine can act as an early warning system for enterprise and government customers.

by Ryan Kim Apr 9, 2012 - 7:41 AM PST

PubNub raises $4.5M to bring real-time messaging to apps

PubNub, which provides real-time messaging to web and mobile apps, just raised a $4.5 million Series A round of financing led by new fund Relay Ventures and Silicon Valley’s TiE Angels. The funding comes after PubNub recently processed more than 100,000 messages per second.

by Ryan Lawler Mar 20, 2012 - 11:54 PM PST

Yandex adds Twitter deal to power real-time search

Search engine Yandex is looking to extend its dominance in Russia through a deal to access Twitter’s firehose — allowing users to search millions of incoming tweets in real time.

by Bobbie Johnson Feb 20, 2012 - 11:46 PM PST

Sky News joins the anti-social media brigade

A new policy from Sky News bars reporters from posting anything other than work-related content on Twitter, and even forbids them from retweeting anything that doesn’t come from a Sky account. As with so many other similar policies, this completely misses the point of social media.

by Mathew Ingram Feb 7, 2012 - 2:22 PM PST

Why Google and Twitter need to kiss and make up

The back-and-forth between Google and Twitter over Google’s new social-search results is only the latest manifestation of a much deeper problem with the relationship between the two former partners. The reality is that both sides need each other more than they would probably like to admit.

by Mathew Ingram Jan 24, 2012 - 9:35 AM PST

News as a process: How journalism works in the age of Twitter

A new study of the way information flowed during the Arab Spring uprisings earlier this year paints a fascinating picture of how what some call “news as a process” works, and the roles bloggers, mainstream media and others play during a breaking news event.

by Mathew Ingram Dec 21, 2011 - 9:37 AM PST

Is more real-time information a dream or a nightmare?

A presentation at the recent Society for News Design conference imagined a future in which real-time updates about a news event would be shown in heads-up displays on picture frames, windshields and even eyeglasses. But would this make our information-overload problem better or worse?

by Mathew Ingram Oct 7, 2011 - 3:04 PM PST

Movable Ink breathes life into e-mail

While the web is interactive and dynamic, e-mail reflects very little of that evolution. But Movable Ink, a New York start-up, is trying to breathe new life into e-mail marketing by making e-mails real-time and context aware, creating messages that don’t go stale.

by Ryan Kim Sep 9, 2011 - 4:00 PM PST

Canvas, a grown-up 4chan, opens to the public

Seven years after launching anarchic image board site 4chan, Christopher Poole unveiled Canvas in January, a re-imagined message board that takes the learnings of 4chan and applies them to a more mainstream community. Now, Canvas, which has been in private beta, is open to the public.

by Ryan Kim Sep 6, 2011 - 10:51 AM PST

Picture this: Real-time image search from all connected phones

It’s easy to search and browse the photo library on your smartphone, but what if you could search for images on millions of people’s smartphones in real time? Theia, a Rice University project, can do just that by distributing the search between smartphones and the cloud.

by Kevin C. Tofel Aug 15, 2011 - 2:26 PM PST

Twitter to open source Hadoop-like tool

Attention webscale aficionados, Twitter plans to open source its Hadoop-like real-time data processing tool known as Storm. The social service nabbed the code through its acquisition last month of BackType, and says it’s a better tool for processing streams of data.

by Stacey Higginbotham Aug 4, 2011 - 3:49 PM PST

Big data in real time is no fantasy

Big data — as in managing and analyzing large volumes of information — has come a long way in the past couple of years. Among the greatest innovations might be the advent of real-time analytics, which allow the processing of information in real time to enable instantaneous decision-making.

by Derrick Harris Jul 4, 2011 - 12:21 PM PST

New Twitter Search Is Nice, But Still Needs Work

Twitter is rolling out some new features for its search, including the ability to see tweets ranked by relevance, but the bad news is that there is still much more the company needs to offer if it is really going to do search properly.

by Mathew Ingram Jun 1, 2011 - 3:04 PM PST

Apple Could Copy Twitter But It Won’t, and Here’s Why

Blogger Anil Dash mused Wednesday in a post that Apple could make Twitter, or at least a similar service that provides real-time cross-platform messaging. He points out hurdles, but a bigger one comes to mind: Apple likely isn’t interested in making something even remotely like Twitter.

by Darrell Etherington Jun 1, 2011 - 11:05 AM PST

Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too

The reasons for the recent screwups by Apple, Sony and Amazon were different, but their reaction was remarkably similar: a conspicuous lack of timely response. Like many others, these tech giants don’t seem to have realized that crisis response has to become real-time now too.

by Mathew Ingram Apr 30, 2011 - 11:16 AM PST

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4 NewNet Companies That Made Headlines in 2010

Today, along with mobile, NewNet technologies like social media and real-time feeds are the catalysts of much of the innovation in the technology industry. In 2010, companies like Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and Groupon ruled the space while larger tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple were surprisingly silent.

by David Card Dec 31, 2010 - 12:00 AM PST

Cloud MapReduce Targets Big Data in Real Time

Cloud application-platform provider Appistry has teamed with Accenture to develop Cloud MapReduce product. Cloud MapReduce is focused on real-time analysis of streaming data, and it complements Appistry’s distributed file system to form a Hadoop alternative for certain applications.

by Derrick Harris Nov 11, 2010 - 12:44 PM PST

Mixpanel Pushes Real-Time Analytics to End Users

What if companies could offer end users and advertisers easy access to real time analytics tools to see how their content, comments and interaction were being received on sites and apps. That’s the promise of Mixpanel’s new Platform service, which launches today.

by Ryan Kim Nov 5, 2010 - 11:27 AM PST

How to Get a Jump-Start on Real-Time Advertising

Even if you don’t believe real-time feeds will become the dominant content consumption paradigm, they’re clearly a growing force. Consumer-paid access to real-time feeds is largely for paid mobile apps, and advertising is the immediate payoff. So here’s how social media companies can best cash in.

by David Card Oct 18, 2010 - 10:18 AM PST

The New Now: How Real Time Redefines the Now

Is the emergence of the real-time web a sign of a society obsessed with the present? From Twitter to Facebook, signs indicate as much, and this is redefining the idea of Now and how it impacts everything from innovation to how we live.

by Om Malik Aug 30, 2010 - 11:30 AM PST

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How Twitter Is Re-Engineering to Address Always-on Usage

Heavy Twitter users connect to the site like it’s an IV drip, and the result is information overload for both users and Twitter itself. But now the company is developing a new architecture to meet our always-on, real-time demands, and these modifications might just be something other consumer web companies should watch and learn from.

by Liz Gannes Jul 29, 2010 - 12:00 AM PST

Real-time May Be Nice For Search Engines, But What About Personal Lives?

The lives of journalists online are increasingly hectic and frenzied, according to a somewhat sensationalistic piece in the New York Times. But the underlying phenomenon the Times is describing seems far more universal than that: it is the increasingly “real time” nature of all our lives.

by Mathew Ingram Jul 19, 2010 - 4:00 PM PST

Superfeedr Makes the Rest of the Web Real-time

Superfeedr, the real-time push infrastructure startup, is today launching a keyword tracking system. It’s essentially like Twitter’s long-forgotten Track service for the rest of the web, using the 2.1 million publishers Superfeedr already provides real-time RSS feeds for and their 25 millions updates per day.

by Liz Gannes Jul 1, 2010 - 9:40 AM PST

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With Caffeine, Google Reveals Challenges of Real Time

Google recently launched a new indexing system called Caffeine, which it says produces results that are up to 50 percent “fresher.” Why the pressure to improve? Because Google needs to respond faster in a world that has become increasingly real-time. Not just because it wants to — because it has to.

by Mathew Ingram Jun 16, 2010 - 12:00 AM PST

Apple Planning iAds Service to Take on Google

Apple hasn’t made any secrets about its plans to get into the mobile advertising game and now it seems they will be revealing a new advertising venture built on top of the framework provided by its recent purchase of Quattro.

by Darrell Etherington Mar 29, 2010 - 9:30 AM PST

Real-time Search Better for News Than Products

An eye-tracking report from OneUpWeb rightfully compares the challenge of real-time search to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. But it did find that users are already responding to real-time results, especially when they’re seeking out news. Those seeking products clicked less and found real-time results less useful.

by Liz Gannes Mar 5, 2010 - 11:54 AM PST

How Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Think About Real-Time Search

It’s pretty amazing that raw Twitter posts already show up by default right on Google search results pages. Today at the Search Marketing Expo, project managers from the three major search engine gave insight into their companies’ approaches to the quickened pace of the web.

by Liz Gannes Mar 2, 2010 - 7:27 PM PST

Kaazing Pushes Web Sockets to Make Browsers Real Time

Jonas Jacobi’s Kaazing is pushing forward a new protocol called web sockets. Rather than AJAX-type hacks to make web apps quick, web sockets are a full browser upgrade to better send and receive data between a web client and server.

by Liz Gannes Mar 2, 2010 - 2:00 PM PST

Yahoo Adds Twitter Firehose, Tweet Integration Coming

Yahoo, like Microsoft and Google before it, has struck a deal to get access to Twitter’s real-time firehose of tweets. It’s also announcing plans to integrate Twitter across all its sites, as part of Yahoo’s big strategy to be an aggregator for the social web.

by Liz Gannes Feb 23, 2010 - 5:36 PM PST

The Real-time Enterprise

The corporate social-networking and microblogging scene is evolving at a staggering rate, spurred on by the massive growth in consumer-oriented tools like…

by Simon Mackie Jan 11, 2010 - 8:58 AM PST

Making Ads Real Time, Too: OneRiot Streams Trending Ads

As the web and search get more up-to-the-minute, relevant and timely advertising shouldn’t be far behind. OneRiot, a Boulder, Colo.-based startup, this morning is launching a stream of real-time ads on currently trending topics.

by Liz Gannes Dec 22, 2009 - 9:13 AM PST

Trackle's New Trick: Human-Powered Discovery

Trackle, which enables users to set up alerts for a wide variety of topics such as new job postings, flight prices, home listings, local events and more, is building out community search and discovery service for that kind of information.

by Liz Gannes Dec 18, 2009 - 7:00 AM PST

Twitvid.com Launches Twitter Video Search

Twitter video service Twitvid.com today launched a real-time search engine for videos shared on Twitter. Twitvid not only tracks videos shared through its own service, but any YouTube link shared on Twitter.

by Janko Roettgers Dec 14, 2009 - 7:10 AM PST

Yahoo Adds Tweets to Search, But Not in Real Time

Yahoo, following in the footsteps of Google, said today it’s adding tweets to the bottom of search results pages for topics it has determined as “buzzing.” But Yahoo is not paying Twitter to get its full so-called Firehose of tweets, the way Google and Microsoft are.

by Liz Gannes Dec 10, 2009 - 10:06 AM PST

The New Lazyfeed Adds Real-time Updates to Your News Feeds

Lazyfeed has relaunched itself with an emphasis on making things even easier for you and, thus, making you even lazier (to use…

by Doriano "Paisano" Carta Dec 8, 2009 - 12:00 PM PST

YouTube Comment Search Battle: “Sucks” Edges Out “Rocks”

YouTube is playing around with real-time comment search in the vein of web darling Twitter. The new YouTube “test tube” feature provides…

by Liz Gannes Nov 7, 2009 - 12:00 AM PST

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Why Google Should Fear the Social Web

In our modern, highly networked lives it is getting increasingly difficult to find relevant information on the web, quickly. The 10 blue links paradigm, popularized by Google, appears to be reaching its limits. While this seek-search-and-consume methodology has become part of our basic Internet behavior and turned Google into a gazillion dollar company, it may be time for us to look for alternatives. One such alternative is social search. The idea was first floated by Yahoo nearly three years ago, but today both Google and Microsoft are jumping into the ring with social search offerings. In this note, I look at some of the major trends driving this shift in how we discover information online, and discuss the advantages that social network players like Facebook have as the new market emerges.

by Om Malik Oct 29, 2009 - 12:00 AM PST

Google Strikes Deal With Twitter to Include Tweets in Search

Google (s goog) will include Twitter’s real-time status updates into its search results, Google VP Marissa Mayer said in a blog post…

by Jennifer Martinez Oct 21, 2009 - 2:37 PM PST

What's Next for the Web?

Monday’s GigaOM Bunker Event looked at where the web is headed. As Jennifer Martinez reported at GigaOM, “A group of technologists explored…

by Simon Mackie Oct 21, 2009 - 9:49 AM PST

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Call it Real-Time, Squared, or NewNet, The Web Is Changing

If a pervasive, always-connected web that’s gathering data and using it intelligently and automatically is just around the corner, what does that mean for all of us? How will our working lives be affected when we’re not just connected to the web 24/7, but actively contributing data to it all the time? What are the implications for privacy and security? Let’s take a look at some specific issues.

by Simon Mackie Oct 21, 2009 - 9:45 AM PST

Quarterly Wrap-up

In Q3, NewNet Focus Turns to Business Models and Search

Social networking and the real-time web are changing the framework of how information on the Internet is consumed. The ability to share and disperse information through social platforms and do it using real-time tools is shifting the focus of content from “historical” news to real-time events. Social networking and the real-time web are co-developing as the next generation Internet experience and will impact all those who have a business tied to the Internet.

As the NewNet develops, competition among players is being monitored more closely. While the rise of one networking site does not necessarily mean the demise of another, user numbers are suggesting that there is a correlation. In the third quarter, MySpace appears to be the big loser. With Facebook superseding the social networking site in the U.S. and Twitter overtaking MySpace in the UK, MySpace is suffering difficult times, and these third-quarter results follow a string of negative news coming out of the second quarter as well.

As these social networking sites vie for users (and essentially market share), the competition has encouraged a great deal of mimicry. What one social network does, another is soon to copy. There were several instances of this in the third quarter, particularly surrounding new feature releases.

But it is not all competition. Facebook in the third quarter released a feature that allows administrators of Facebook Pages (the pages for celebrities, organizations and businesses) to send status updates out directly as tweets and will also be able to link each Page to different Twitter accounts. While this feature embraces Twitter as a communication channel, it also functions to keep users on the Facebook site, resulting in coopetition, a blurring of cooperation and competition that is marking this space.

The rise of social networks is also significantly impacting Google. With the shift to the real-time web, Google, the king of search, is trying to determine how it can better incorporate real-time search into its more traditional search. Google’s type of search can be classified as an archival, organized search of historical data. Social networks, however, enable the searching and accessing of current events and dialogues in a more casual manner that is personal to the user’s interests.

Google is being challenged by real-time search as well as competitive threats among more established players. In the third quarter, Yahoo and Microsoft inked a 10-year search deal. In light of the Yahoo-Microsoft partnership, Google will further struggle with market share. However, the company is working to forge ahead, releasing a slew of new products in the third quarter. These apps and search features are geared toward moving Google into the NewNet era, providing context to the user experience.

Social networking is a rapidly evolving space. The leaders of today can easily be the losers of tomorrow. The NewNet is forcing companies, new and old alike, to continue evaluating and redefining themselves to keep pace with how the Internet is evolving. The real-time web is not a momentary trend, but rather the future of the web. The next several quarters will be critical in defining what the real-time web will be and which companies will take the lead in bringing it forth.

by Gigaom Research Oct 12, 2009 - 12:00 AM PST

Will Cuil's New Streaming Feature Put It Back on the Map?

Cuil, a company of ex-Googlers that developed a search engine of the same name, released a new streaming feature today that displays…

by Jennifer Martinez Sep 23, 2009 - 9:13 AM PST

Getting Closer to Real Time With Hadoop

Hadoop, as a pivotal piece of the data mining renaissance, offers the ability to tackle large data sets in ways that weren’t…

by Gary Orenstein Sep 20, 2009 - 11:00 AM PST

Google Gets Real-time Search

Twitter, you’re not the only one with up-to-the-second search results. Google (s goog) now boasts that ability, too, a fact revealed in…

by Darrell Etherington Sep 15, 2009 - 11:00 AM PST

Get the Drift With Gist

Gist, a free web service that provides a snapshot of information about your email contacts, is publicly launching in beta today. The…

by Jennifer Martinez Sep 15, 2009 - 5:00 AM PST

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Career Opportunities in the NewNet

The digital world is changing rapidly. The explosion of social networking and the emergence of the real-time web in Twitter, FriendFeed and Google Wave are bringing new challenges and opportunities. The shifting landscape means that companies will need people with unique skills — whole new careers are being created. Companies should be thinking about the skills that they’ll need — and start planning to acquire them now.

by Simon Mackie Sep 14, 2009 - 12:00 AM PST

Nokia N900 Warrants a Close-Up Video Double Feature

http://www.youtube.com/v/ZrYqemylpIo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Wondering how Maemo 5 will run on the recently announced Nokia N900 smartphone? Wonder no more, thanks to the videos coming…

by Kevin C. Tofel Sep 2, 2009 - 11:50 AM PST

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Google Wave Explained

Just as criticism was rising that Google was being overshadowed in the realm of the real-time web by Twitter, the search giant introduced an ambitious new platform, long in the works, that represented, among other things, a bold step forward in real-time web use. Even if it doesn’t fulfill all of its ambitions, Wave will surely shed light on the ongoing debate about where real-time tools are most effectively applied, which facets of our lives we want in real time and which we don’t. This note looks at the scope of Google Wave and the implications of the technologies and challenges it reveals.

by Ed Gubbins Aug 24, 2009 - 12:00 AM PST

Quarterly Wrap-up

Second Quarter 2009 In Review: NewNet

Social networking and the real-time web are changing the framework of how information on the Internet is consumed. The ability to share and disperse information through social platforms and do it using real-time tools is shifting the focus of content from “historical” news to real-time events. Social networking and the real-time web are co-developing as the next generation Internet experience and will impact all businesses. This report takes a look at some of the big growth trends and important company announcements from second quarter 2009.

by Gigaom Research Aug 23, 2009 - 9:00 PM PST