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Mobile Commerce in Real-Time Is New Trend, Thanks to Zaarly

Mobile Commerce in Real-Time Is New Trend, Thanks to Zaarly

By Abby Johnson December 18, 2011 | 3 Comments

When Bo Fishback, Ian Hunter, and Eric Koester developed Zaarly right before SXSW took place earlier this year, they had no idea that it would get the response it has gotten thus far. Koester told WebProNews that they created it two and a half weeks before the show and decided to launch simply as an experiment. However, when it took in $10,000 worth of transactions within a two-block radius in 48 hours, they knew they were onto something.

YouTube Pulls Plug on YouTube RealTime
By · March 23, 2010 · 5 Comments

Update: YouTube has decided to pull the plug on the RealTime feature. The company wrote in the Help Forum:

We’ve seen some of you wondering what occurred to the Realtime Toolbar. The Realtime Toolbar was recently retired and is no longer an available feature on YouTube.

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Big Changes on the Horizon for Digg
By · January 22, 2010 · 2 Comments

Digg Founder Kevin Rose did an interview with The UK’s Telegraph, and revealed that Digg has some big and "drastic" plans for redesigning the Digg experience. A couple of quotes from the piece:

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Tips for Getting Found in Real-Time Searches
By · December 27, 2009 · 57 Comments

Update: Now the game is really on with Google rolling out real-time search results into regular search results pages.

Original Article: Real-time search is still an emerging concept. At this point, using a real-time search engine will bring you results by time/date. This doesn’t always cater to relevancy, which is why there is still a lot of work to be done in this field.

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Google Gets a New Real-Time Infrastructure for Display Ads
By · November 23, 2009

Google just announced that it is acquiring Teracent, a provider of "intelligent dynamic display advertising." The company considers itself a pioneer in dynamic ad serving and optimization solutions. Google appears to agree.

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Digg to Get All Twitter This Year?
By · October 16, 2009 · 2 Comments

Update: Kevin Rose is now saying that his WeFollow Twitter directory will now be "more closely linked" with Digg as they "experiment with user influence as it applies to the Twitter universe." In a company blog post, he writes:

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TypePad Gets Real-Time Blog Updates
By · September 14, 2009 · 3 Comments

Today Six Apart, the makers of TypePad, released a new TypePad PubSubHubub hub, which automatically promotes blog updates in real time. It’s a free feature for bloggers who use TypePad, and it automatically updates Google Reader, FriendFeed, SuperFeedr, and LiveDoor.

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TwitVid Delivers First Twitter Video Upload App for Blackberry
By · August 19, 2009 · 3 Comments

TwitVid has just released what it calls "the first Twitter Video uploading application for the Blackberry." Blackberry-using Twitterers with a love for sharing video can now rejoice.

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Mimic the Inauguration with New Facebook Offering
By · June 24, 2009 · 2 Comments

Facebook launched the Live Stream Box today, which is a feature that lets website owners and developers enable Facebook users to connect, share, and post updates in real-time as they witness events online. Think CNN’s Facebook integration from the Presidential Inauguration.

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In The Newsletter
Real-Time Site Previews, Faster Search from Yahoo
By · June 18, 2009 · 3

Yahoo has introduced a new version of the Yahoo Toolbar today. It runs on Internet Explorer 6+ and Firefox (as a beta).

"The new Yahoo! Toolbar now offers greater customization and more immediate access to the information you care about most from across the entire web – not just Yahoo! sites," says Burke Culligan, Senior Director of Yahoo Front Doors.

 

Facebook Rolls Out Real-Time Streams
By · May 4, 2009 · 2

Facebook has started rolling out real real-time updates today. If you are not seeing them yet, don’t freak out. You’ll get them soon enough.

New Friendfeed Goes Real Time
By · April 7, 2009 · 1

Friendfeed has been tinkering with a new real-time design at beta.friendfeed.com. The real-time version allows all pages to update in real-time, so users can see their friends’ photos, messages, comments, and likes as they occur.

Google Finance adds real-time NYSE quotes
By · June 24, 2008

Google closely followed its debut of real-time NASDAQ quotes on its Finance site with real-time information from the Big Board itself.

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