The Real-Time Web

and Its Future

Edited by Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Contents
I. What is the Real-Time Web? Beyond Twitter and Facebook 3

II. Selected Legacy Blog Posts 5

III. Case Studies 8

EnjoysThings 9
SuperFeedr 12
Evri 15
Warner Bros 18
Urban Airship 21
Nozzl 24
Aardvark 27
Mendeley 30
Black Tonic 33
RedCross 36

IV. Key Players 40

John Borthwick 41
Chris Messina 42
Brett Slatkin, Brad Fitzpatrick and Pubsubhubbub 43
Steve Gillmor 44
20 Other Key People to Know 45

V. Sector Overviews 46
a. Stream Readers 47
Tweetdeck, Nomee, Seesmic, Cliqset, Threadsy and More 48
b. Search 49
OneRiot, Collecta, Scoopler, Wowd, Tweetmeme and more 50
Google, Yahoo and Bing 51
Twitter and Facebook 52
c. Filtering/Text Analysis 53
FirstRain, Factery, Postrank, Lexalytics, Sysamos and more 54

VI. On Twitter and Facebook 55

VII. Additional Interview Notes 56

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VIII. Visualizations 57
Human-Machine Continuum 58
Real-Time & Static Web Together 59
Information Overload, Best and Worst Case Solutions 60
Mind-Map of Relationships Between Concepts 61
Matrix of Concepts and Relevant Company Profiles 62

VIV. Session Notes From ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit 63

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