This morning I came across an interesting piece at Mashable http://mashable.com/2009/10/29/real-time-web-trends/ about real-time trends. The author, suggests 1. Real-time collaboration 2. Real-time analytics 3. Real-time search 4. Real-time e-commerce are areas to watch.
He's right.
Sorta. Real-time collaboration would be a great thing, except if everything is done is real-time using the much touted, but as yet incomplete Google Wave, then where does the pondering and thoughtfulness come in. Just because you can do something NOW doesn't mean you should.
Real-time analytics and e-commerce are definitely coming. But just when...not so sure. As I mentioned in a previous post, the use of Twitter to power political campaigns is now available. Omniture, the largest web analytics firm recently sold was doing a pretty good job offering retailers same day results, but for some reason has stumbled leaving their customers waiting two, three, four days for results, which in Web speed is like a dog-year.
Which leaves, real-time search. Okay. I can see the application being used where say I am interested in getting the best deal on a certain widget or perhaps even a breaking news story (but wouldn't you just be glued to a streaming source anyway)?
Still with all this real-time, stuff, who has the time to use it?
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