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Real time web moving too fast for mainstream media

Real time web moving too fast for mainstream media

by on February 16, 2010 in Breaking News, Facebook, Hyperlocal, Local advertising, Marketing, Mass Media, New business models, Newspapers, Publishing, Social Media, Trends, Twitter

The powerful launch of Google Buzz (Mashable | Google Buzz has completely changed the game) last week signals the arrival of the Real Time Web as a truly new media. It’s been well documented that Twitter has established itself a breaking news source. Google Buzz, Facebook and Twitter form a triumvirate channel for sourcing news [...]

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The Mother of Real Time Search

by on July 2, 2009 in Social Media, Web tools

Friendfeed aggregates its users’ content on 50 or so social networks and distributes the batch across the timeline. It’s the mother of social media aggregation, so the announcement of its new real time search functionality is far more comprehensive than what Twitter might offer. Now if Friendfeed can only match Twitter’s user numbers… Users can [...]

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Lifestreaming, Blogging and Microblogging – how they fit together

Lifestreaming, Blogging and Microblogging – how they fit together

by on June 30, 2009 in Blogging, New business models, Social Media, Trends, Twitter

from last year’s 06/02/08 slideshow: Explaining Twitter, Friendfeed & Social Media 2.0. I just added Lifestreaming. With the advent of Twitter and the real time web, can blogs can chronicle real time as effectively as micro-blogging tools? Last week Steve Rubel introduced his move from blogging to lifestreaming with a new lifestream site based on [...]

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