Every morning i spend an hour for research in interesting trends in the mobile and internet market. For that i subcribed to several blogs, news sites and twitter channels.
If there are coming up breaking news, twitter is really the best media. In the last days nearly everybody was twittering about the real time web.
The developments in this area are really impressive. Almost every day new products are announced.
So what is the realtime web?
In one sentence: “The users receive information immediately after it is published by its author.”
The best example for that is the twitter post after the emergency landing in the Hudson river. Only seconds after this occures, the web community could see the first picture and a short explanation of what happend. Faster than the traditional medias ever will be.
The main reason for the boom of the real time web is the fast growing of mobile internet users worldwide. Bitkom wrote that more than two thirds of the world population has a mobile phone and the usage of data services is rising incredible fast.
The applications are so easy to use, that everbody with mobile internet access can take part in the realtime web. There are countless apps for twitter, facebook, flickr and so on to take part in this game.
In the last days, there were several announcements which will have extensive influence on the real time web. Two of them are googles real-time-search and googles goggles.
In the videos bellow you can get an impression of them:
Google Real Time Search
Google Goggles
You’ll get so many information in realtime whenever you want. In the same way you can push the real time web by twittering, uploading images and so on. On new feature which you can use in future, is real time video streaming. Usteam published an iPhone app for live video streaming. Your followers can see live what you are doing and where you are.
This opens up new business models. Imagine this feature will be integrated in google earth for example. You browse there and you’ll see live videos. Or you go to a club and publish a live stream of the event on facebook and your friends can easily decide if they want to join you or not.
What do you think about this topic?
Tags: big thing, data services, facebook, google goggles, live search, live streaming, mobile, mobile web, real time, real time web, twitter, ustream