Posts Tagged ‘real time’

Posted on September 22, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Everything Real-Time …Yes, EVERYTHING

After a late night podcast with The Social Geeks, we came out with a spanking new idea that surprised us all: Everything Real-Time. Think of it as EverythingTwitter, except with real-time apps and services.

Essentially, what we aim to do is provide you with reviews and directions to the latest apps and services that are implementing real-time web features. They won’t always be complete real-time web services, but we want to catalog them all as the future of real-time information takes off. Be sure to check out the first posting on Lazyfeed.

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Posted on September 15, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

5 new ways to filter, find and read blog content. Blogs are back!

It seems like innovation has hit the technology community again especially in the RSS / blogging / content aggregation sector. Just a few months ago everyone was talking about or how micro-blogging sites such as Twitter would kill blogs. People were saying RSS was too slow and everyone would be using people aggregation to find information in the terms of if something was important, people through social networks such as Facebook & Twitter would tell find information that way instead of reading blogs.

While that may stay true for some, new ways of filtering, finding and reading content have emerged helping users find relevant content to their interest. Let’s take a look.

1. YourVersion – http://www.yourversion.com

YourVersion continuously discovers new and personally relevant web content based on your interests, and lets you easily bookmark and share your discoveries with friends.
YourVersion was recently named DemoPit peoples’ choice winner at TechCrunch50

2. Google Fast Flip – http://fastflip.googlelabs.com

Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.

3. LazyFeed – http://www.lazyfeed.com

Lazyfeed is a web service that allows you to subscribe to any topics and get live updates. Just save any topic you are interested in, and forget about it. Lazyfeed will remember and let you know when there’s new content on that topic, just like an instant messenger. Lazyfeed allows you to stay on top of everything you care about, effortlessly.

4. Feedly (Firefox plug-in) – http://www.feedly.com

feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page.

5. Alltop – http://Alltop.com

The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest you.

While Feedly and Alltop have been online a lot longer than LazyFeed, Google Fast Flip and YourVersion, I thought they could be useful to the non-tech readers of SocialWayne.com.

Google Reader is still my preferred choice to read blogs but with features like auto discovery of new content LazyFeed and YourVersion are good tools for bloggers looking to find content or just to keep up with the latest news from the social web / blogosphere.

Out of the five tools which one do you use? What do you use to read blogs?

Posted on September 12, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Tweet & you shall receive: Real-Time iPhone RSS push notifications. Superfeedr FTW! ->

Just the other day September 8, to be excat I was thinking that “I want real-time iPhone RSS reader app with push notifications to alert me when a blog updates on the second along with sms notifications” Well guess what, you know the saying “there’s an app for that” well now there is via an app called Notification [iTunes link $1.99] .

The Pitch
App Notifications is an iPhone app that acts as a client for the Apple Push Notification Service.
Use our ready-made Twitter, Gmail, and RSS notification services to instantly receive new tweets, search results, emails, RSS feeds, or create your own custom notifications with our simple REST API.

You may be thinking why do I need Notifications app. We’ll it depends on your industry, but here are a few examples how I would use it.

• I want push notifications when a blog updates in real-time
• I’m tracking an event, person, or tag and want to know when someone mentions them on Twitter
• I want push notifications for emails sent you to me by certain people
• If you’re a media company you could use push notifications for all of the above reasons.

So why is this special? Well, if you have read the RSS news lately, then you’re aware of the PubSubHubbub and RSSCloud technology that is turning RSS from a pull technology to a push technology. The Notifications app uses Superfeedr @superfeedr that uses a group of “helper” services to push RSS updates to the iPhone. Basically RSS is growing up in 2009. Why did it take so long RSS?

A big thanks to Julien @julien51 and the team. For more information on Notifications and how to configure it read the original blog announcement: Real-time RSS notifications on your iPhone

Now I’m making a list of RSS feeds that I want to be notified of instantly when they are updated. Any suggestions?

Posted on July 10, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: Links from the blogosphere to help you "Get" FriendFeed

If you didn’t know I’m a big fan of FriendFeed. I’m using their widget on my sidebar and have posted about FriendFeed in a few of my previous Friday Fix series. See: Seven FriendFeed Friends to Subscribe to, the ladies edition and Five FriendFeed Friends to Follow, I mean Subscribe to, the guys edition . Although Friendfeed has been around for a while, from time to time I’ll still hear people say they don’t get FriendFeed. If that’s you take a look at the links below.

FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King

Bring FriendFeed To Your Site with Sharing

Eight reasons I love FriendFeed

FriendFeed Filters Are The Star Of The Beta

Popular iPhone apps for FriendFeed

AmpliFeeder: FriendFeed’s Much Hotter Sister

How These Six Words Could Energize Friendfeed on the Mainstream Media

How To Find Your Audience On FriendFeed

Instant Updates On Any Topic From Around The Web

7 WAYS FRIENDFEED COULD BETTER ENGAGE THE FLICKR COMMUNITY

About FriendFeed from http://friendfeed.com/about/
FriendFeed is a service that makes it easy to share with friends online. It offers a fun and interactive way to discover and discuss information among friends

Do you use FriendFeed? If so how?

Posted on May 29, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Friday Fix: Seven FriendFeed Friends to Subscribe to, the ladies edition

Last week I posted Friday Fix five guys to follow on FriendFeed and as promised with some help from my FriendFeed buddy Jeffisageek here’s the ladies edition.