Comments on: The Current State of the ‘Real-Time’ Web

By: Will the "New Digg" Breathe New Life Into the Service? | The Techsoomer Weblog

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:06:41 +0000

[...] Just one look at microblogging and/or activity streaming, and one notices just how useful the real-time web can be. Digg’s current offering definitely lacks this dynamic, so it is an obvious and [...]

By: Where is Our News Going? « Be Innovation

Where is Our News Going? « Be Innovation — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:53:34 +0000

[...] along important news as it breaks. There is no reason that a news service cannot tap into that “real time” power and use it. Learn how to capitalize on these systems and incorporate them into your [...]

By: pruett

pruett — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:31:11 +0000

Wooowww. That IS the real deal. It's so refreshing that MSNBC acknowledges Twitter as a source for news. The RTW really enables us all to be mini-reporters. Very cool stuff.

By: Zach Heller

Zach Heller — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:42:24 +0000

Great post Kevin. Here is an example of how powerful Twitter can be. Yesterday, a plane went down in the Hudson. I first heard about it from an update on Twitter. Working in the city, I ran to the window. I could just barely make out the action, so I tweeted what I saw. Within 3 minutes I had an email from a producer at MSNBC asking if they could call me. After a reply email I was on the phone with the guy, describing what I saw. It went from Twitter – to me – to Twitter- to MSNBC – to me in a matter of 10 minutes. Wow.