How Can Users Benefit From The Real Time Web

One of the most talked about topics of 2009’s was the real time web. Even as 2010 has begun, more and more articles are written about the real time web and more and more startups have launched. Even Google has begun mixing in real time results into their search engine through the “Latest Results Box” that shows up for many information based searches.

With all the noise and hype surrounding the real time web – it should be that users can greatly benefit from all of these new technologies. However, it seems that many internet users still aren’t using these tools to benefit from the real time web. You don’t have to use Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media service to be able to take advantage of the tools that are out there. Below, we have reviewed several of the things you can do today – to become better informed about what is going on.

One of the coolest aspects to the real time web is to learn about the latest trends. When a bunch of people discuss what is going on in the real time web, these topics are tracked to see which is being mentioned the most. Many sites offer the latest trends, and often, these trends can show you breaking news before it is picked up by traditional sources. What The Trend is the early leader in the trend space as they not only show the latest trends but also they show you reasons why each trend is popular right now.

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Startups are popping up all over the real time web

The real time web continues to be a buzz world through technology and internet marketing blogs.  Users want to know what is happening right now, and the real time web is in the middle of all of it.

Real Time WebBelow, are four startups currently making an impact in the industry:

Topsy.com – A major aspect of the real time web is the ability for users to share links.  Topsy has spent a lot of time and money at building technology which will analyze all of the links on the real time web, and then they display search results based on the most popular links being shared.  They also use authority because certain people sharing links hold more weight than others.  Anyway, they generate search results to other sites, based on the popular links in the real time web.  You can sort by hour, day, week, or month.

Sency.com * – Sency has built to feeds for webmasters to integrate into their website.  The first, brings real time content to a website.  So, a site about Hollywood can have a stream of content, that updates automatically anytime someone mentions Hollywood on the real time web.  The other feed is a popular links feed that updates with Today’s most popular links for a respective keyword.  These tools are private labeled, and offer several customization options.

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