Phil Leggetter – Software Consultant

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• Real-Time Web Posts 03/03/2010

  Phil Leggetter 9:12 am on March 3, 2010 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Facebook (2), html5, real-time web (15), Real-Time Web News, Social Media, Twitter (65), websockets

  I’m doing my best to keep up to speed on any news related to the real-time web. I follow interesting people on Twitter who tweet out links, I subscribe to RSS feeds and I’ve got Google Alerts set up on a number of phrases. Since I’m doing all this work I thought it would be a good idea to start sharing it by publishing the findings in an occasional summary blog post. I generally don’t like blog posts which just say “this is an interesting article” but sometimes, if it raises awareness of good articles, it can be useful. Hopefully it will be.

  I tend to first post the links on the Real-Time Web Software and Technologies LinkedIn group so if you are interested on getting the news as I find it, or contributing your own real-time web finds then please join the group. Also feel free to Tweet at me or contact me via the website if you find anything interesting and relevant.

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• How real-time does real-time have to be?

  Phil Leggetter 9:37 am on December 9, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: real-time web (15), Social Media, truly real-time web (4)

  Last night, just over 12 hours ago, I attended the Gary Vaynerchuk Crush It event organised by Sprouter in London. I’ve already read Crush It and seen a lot of Gary online so I wondered if he would give out any information that I hadn’t already heard. On the way in I mentioned this to Ian Sanders who said:

  It’s always different live. It’s like a gig.

  This is a big statement considering the event is just a guy standing and speaking and taking some Q&A. However, Ian’s statement was spot-on. Gary oozes charisma and when he speaks it feels like he’s addressing you directly. This is clearly one of the reasons why he’s so popular and doing so well.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk at the Sprouter Crush It event

  
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• Twitter Updates for 2009-09-13

  Phil Leggetter 12:59 am on September 13, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Social Media, Twitter (65)

  • RT @codepo8: Loving houselife http://www.gsltd.co.uk/images/2houselife.jpg (via b3ta http://is.gd/3bnun) < it just works #
  • Just updated to v0.30.1 of #TweetDeck. Some sweet new features and UI tweaks. I updated from something like v0.26 http://bit.ly/3Zqyyj #
  • RE http://bit.ly/97L1Y Oh, has bit.ly account integration so you can track your links. Awesome! Thanks @TweetDeck #
  • @samparkr Got "an invalid response" when trying to submit answers to your app's questions. in reply to samparkr #
  • What I wouldn't give for a "graphics design ability" elixir #

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• Twitter Updates for 2009-09-12

  Phil Leggetter 12:59 am on September 12, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Social Media, Twitter (65)

  • RT @brianrathbone: stuffing my Treo 750 full of @Podiobooks for the long roadtrip.Thank goodness for free serialized audiobooks. #
  • UltraMon 3.0.7 seems to work a treat on Windows 7 http://bit.ly/19YTWt #win7 #apps #
  • @ian_alderson Think you'll fail on the tube in reply to ian_alderson #
  • Children on the way to school seem to sound like cockerels this morning. #
  • @ian_alderson Ah, damn that 140 char limit. If only you could have made that clear in reply to ian_alderson #
  • Looking forward to my afternoon run. Hopefully I'll be able to get some of this cold out of my lungs. #fb #
  • Much more productive when working from home. Fewer distractions. Maybe this is why some people say open plan offices aren't all that good. #
  • Getting my first taste of ThoughtWorks Cruise continuous integration server http://bit.ly/bemIY #agile #dev #
  • @martintyler @AdamThornburn If you are working collaboratively I can see the benefit in having a team room w/ desks. #
  • @cwayman Create a separate C# library and reference into it from VB. Or are we not even talking VB.NET here? in reply to cwayman #
  • Change of plan. going for a bike ride and a bite to eat over lunch. Will have to go for a run tomorrow. #
  • @chrisgarrett Tweet me a pint will ya please? in reply to chrisgarrett #
  • @Mark_Stringer Is a Focus like a KitKat? or maybe a Twirl? Yum! No, wait. A topic! in reply to Mark_Stringer #
  • @AdamThornburn I've got a private office. It's called The 2nd Bedroom. And breakout/meeting rooms are known as "work" in reply to AdamThornburn #
  • How did this get listed in "New Wave", "Pop" and "Disco" http://bit.ly/1asSNm Freddy Fender! Sound kind of Disco I guess. #
  • How to associate a file type with a program from the command line http://bit.ly/12Y09x I'm going to bookmark this one #
  • http://twitpic.com/hckks – seriously strong pickled onions. whooa! #
  • Just watched Little Miss Sunshine. Embarrassingly funny, feel-good and moving. Great film #movie #film IMDB: http://bit.ly/Zdj9a #

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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 (12), real-time web (15), Social Media, 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?

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
   

• Running in Hertford

  Phil Leggetter 10:19 pm on July 4, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Community (5), Hertford (2), Kings Mead, Life (7), Social Media, St Leonards Church

  My girlfriend was out at the Take That concert at Wembley so I was left on my own this Saturday afternoon. Not knowing what to do with myself as the evening approached I decided to go for a run. Normally I find running quite difficult. As I run my mind tends to concentrate on my breathing which puts me off the run. The difference today was that I went exploring.
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• Bing.com round table

  Phil Leggetter 10:56 am on June 27, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Bing (3), Internet (12), Microsoft (4), real-time web (15), Social Media, 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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