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• Wikipedia now has a definition for Real-Time Web

  Phil Leggetter 3:43 pm on July 9, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Internet, real-time web (29), Social Media (7), web 2.0 (4)

  A while ago a wrote a blog article called What is the real-time Web?. At this time (19/04/2009) even Wikipedia did not have a definition for what “real-time web” was. It does now.

  The definition is short and sweet:

  Real-time web is the concept of searching for and finding information online as it is produced. Advancements in web search technology coupled with growing use of social media enable online activities to be queried as they occur.

  A traditional web search crawls and indexes web pages periodically, returning results based on relevance to the search query. The real time web delivers the most popular topics recently discussed or posted by users. The content is often “soft” in that it is based on the social web – people’s opinions, attitudes, thoughts and interests – as opposed to hard news or facts.

  At present there is no mention of the technology behind the real-time web. Nothing about Twitter and FriendFeed helping to form the definition.

  Do you agree with this definition? What web 2.0 platforms do you think have helped define what “real-time web” is? What technologies do you believe have pushed the “real-time web” into such prominence?

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
   

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• Microsoft Bing.com round table thoughts

  Phil Leggetter 8:07 pm on July 1, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Bing (3), Bing.com, Google (4), Internet, Microsoft (5), NDCG, Search, web 2.0 (4)

  A couple of days ago I blogged that I was going to attend a Microsoft bing round table. I’ve now attended and here are the key points and interesting facts that I took from the event. You can also search for #meetbing on twitter for relevant tweets.
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• Bing.com round table

  Phil Leggetter 10:56 am on June 27, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Bing (3), Internet, Microsoft (5), real-time web (29), Social Media (7), Software Development (16), web 2.0 (4)

  On Monday between 19:00 and 21:00 I’m going to a Bing roundtable (round table) in London. The event is being organise by Colin Mercer and is described as:

  a small round-table event to discuss Bing and since we saw your recent tweet regarding comparative search results between Bing and Google, we thought that you might be interested in coming along. The idea would be to get your initial thoughts and you’ll get an update on the future steps for Bing which are being developed specifically for the UK. During the session you’ll have the chance to talk with Microsoft representatives and other people from social media like yourself, who have expressed some early opinion.

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• Caplin Systems Blog Post - What is the real-time web?

  Phil Leggetter 4:27 pm on April 28, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Caplin Systems (2), comet (3), Internet, real-time web (29), Software Development (16), web 2.0 (4)

  About a week ago I wrote a blog article at work entitled “What is the real-time web?“. I’m seeing even more tweets and posts about the real-time web and I’d love to hear if other people agree with my opinion on what the real-time web is.

  View the What is the real-time web? article here.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
   

• How to make a cross domain web request with SilverLight 2

  Phil Leggetter 12:16 pm on October 24, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: .NET, .NET (10), C# (4), crossdomain, Internet, silverlight (10), Software Development (16)

  To make a cross domain web request with SilverLight 2 really isn’t that tough. I did have some problems with RC0 but I have no idea why. I just tried writing a little app to do this and it worked straight away.
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• Google Chrome Nightly Downloader

  Phil Leggetter 7:16 pm on September 24, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: browers, chromium, google chrome, Internet

  

  Here’s a link to a very useful tool that’ll download the latest Google Chrome (well Chromium) nightly build. I decided to use this due to the vertical scrolling issue with Google Chrome that was driving me mad. The bug was present in the release of Google Chrome but fixed in the nightly builds.

  

  Chromium Nightly Downloader

  Update: 02/10/2008

  I’ve been looking into getting SilverLight to work with Google Chrome or Chromium and came across a post about something called Chrome Channel Switcher which looks like it automatically updates your Chrome install to either Beta or Development builds. Could be useful! There are links directly to the executable download from Jon Galloway’s blog post.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
   

• A new look for Google

  Phil Leggetter 9:15 am on May 17, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Internet

  Google is slowly moving away from its simple basic colour look to a new – but still simple – Web 2.0 look.

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• Report problems to your council with Neighbourhood Fix It

  Phil Leggetter 1:30 pm on April 21, 2007 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Community (5), Internet

  Rob of GIS Consultancy fame recently sent me a link to a website dedicated to tracking and fixing of neighbourhood problems. The Neighbourhood Fix It website is a great idea and it actually works. I reported the dumping of a load of newspapers and leaflets outside of our flat that were just waiting to be set on fire. That same day the Edinburgh “Rapid Response Team” had been out and picked up the papers and leaflets.

  Neighbourhood Fix It must have a mapping of post codes to councils and automatically inform the council of any reports in their jurisdiction. The site has been developed by mySociety who aim to “give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives”. I think that Neighbourhood Fix It is a great piece of work and a great example.

  Read more on the launch of Neighbourhood Fix It.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
   

• England Goals

  Phil Leggetter 10:04 am on March 29, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Football/Soccer (2), Internet, Software Development (16)

  With the reasonable success of Bring Back Beckham! I decided to push forward with my next project. The idea behind England Goals was to create a site that lists all the goals scored by the England football team and use the increase in the number of goals that can be found on external video sites to my advantage by embedding these user uploaded videos as content.

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• Bring Back Beckham!

  Phil Leggetter 12:46 pm on March 9, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Football/Soccer (2), Internet, Software Development (16)

  Back in October 2006 I had an idea for a website. I tend to come up with a variety of ideas for things, most of which I add a .com to the end of. This time my idea was based around the fact that the England football team were in terrible form having drawn 0-0 with Macedonia and that Steve McClaren, the England manager, was refusing to pick England’s, and the world’s, most recognised footballer, David Beckham.

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