This is a reply to calling-bs-on-the-real-time-web
I started typing a reply to Alexander his blog post and it got pretty long, so I decide to publish it here…
My reply:
I think you’re right about the fact that there is a lot of irrelevant chatter on Twitter, Facebook or any other social network. But there is a far larger amount of irrelevant blogposts, outdated news, chatroom BS, etc. on the web.
Actually 99.9999999% of the web is irrelevant to me. The challenge lies in getting that 0,0000001% and I strongly believe that the real-time web or real-time search will be a step forward.
Why? Because formulating my search helps me define what I need. Then search algorithm will box information which should be accessable enough for me to grasp. Websites like Tweetmeme or Twitter trending topics help me filter and many more of these will come. The social and realtime web are enabling us to define trusted rings of people and opinions and that is really helpful.
Maybe we should start talking about the trusted web instead of the realtime web.But then again I don’t want to label things!
Trending topics just now were:
Happy Canada Day, Michael Jackson, Public Enemies, Firefox 3, MJ’s, Goodnight, #iranelection, Transformers 2, iPhone, National Express
Out of ten, eight of these topics are irrelevant to me, but so is 98% of all the news on cnn.com and 90% of the blogs I frequently visit.
It actually surprised me that you think real-time search is BS. Gluble is focussing on building rings of trust. Your family is usualy your first ring of trust. All your truths are based on what you’ve learned and family is at the very basis of that, or should be.
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Hi Mathys,
buikding rings of trust is very important but hasn’t got a lot to do with real-time
The examples you are providing are nice, but geeky. I do not know a single person outside the tech world that we are engaging in that uses the web the way you just described. We geeks use search that way to try and find that 0.000001% relevant to us.
The rest of the world interacts with friends and family, uses Google to search and that’s about it. Show me a real need for real-time and I will take back my words