The Real-time Web: Sifting Required [GigaOM]

August 20 2009 by News in gigaomnetwork |No Comments

pushing rock up hillDespite all the hype and excitement around the real-time web, access to real-time information online is hardly a new phenomenon. That fact stuck with me after talking to Chris Cox, Facebook’s product director, last week at the social networking company’s headquarters. As he noted, “Real time has been around since [the launch of] Technorati,” referring to the blog search engine founded by Dave Sifry in 2002 that aggregates hot stories from across the web. Yet seven years later, we still haven’t figured out how to handle the inundation of real-time information.  Read more...

Vyoom: A Social Network Built From The Ground Up Around Real-Time

June 25 2009 by News in TechCrunch |No Comments

picture 461 Vyoom: A Social Network Built From The Ground Up Around Real TimeIn the last six months or so, the real-time web has really started to take hold. Services like Facebook, FriendFeed, and YouTube are finding ways to update their services on the fly with impressive results. But aside from Twitter, there haven’t been many sites built from the ground up with real-time in mind. Until now. Today sees the launch of Vyoom, which may well be the first robust social network to launch with real-time at its core.  Read more...

Bilingual Social Networking: How to Interact in More than One Language [WebWorkerDaily]

June 18 2009 by News in gigaomnetwork |No Comments

Bilingual Social Networking: How to Interact in More than One Language [WebWorkerDaily]

Whenever I use social media tools, I find myself communicating in two languages: English and Tagalog. I use the former to talk to international contacts, and the latter for local contacts. It’s not a strict rule, since I prefer to use English, but there are some cases where sending updates in Tagalog is preferable or unavoidable.  Read more...

5 Vanity-Free Ways to Use Twitter

June 10 2009 by News in maximumpc |No Comments

Since before Ashton Kutcher championed the service, Twitter has been a cacophony of meaningless vapid personal updates, narcissistic celebrity feeds (not including Levar Burton, of course), and bored Facebook users looking for a new way to stalk that girl next door. There’s no denying that the microblogging social network has managed to grow at epic proportions – easily becoming one of the most popular Internet fads of the year – but it’s not easy filtering the signal from the noise.

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