a.k.a. the real-time web
Posted on: November 21, 2009
KEY SITES
Facebook and Facebook’s Wikipedia page
Twitter and Twitter’s Wikipedia page
TweetDeck and TweetDeck’s Wikipedia page
eBay and eBay’s Wikipedia Page
UStream and UStream’s Wikipedia page
ESPN360 and ESPN 360′s Wikipedia page
KILLER LINKS
The real-time web on Wikipedia
ReadWriteWeb’s introduction to the real-time web
The Huffington Post on security and the real-time web
Google Latitude and it’s Wikipedia entry
A ReadWriteWeb article about instant messaging
NYU Local’s coverage of the 2009 Kimmel occupation and a Wikipredia page about microblogging
American Journalism Review article on Twitter as a journalism tool
FURTHER READING
What is real-time IM?
Mashable article on emerging trends of the real-time web
BusinessWeek on investing in the real-time web
GigaOm looks at Google vs. the live web
WIRED thinks the live web is leaving Google behind!