Real-time search is about not only Twitter, but the *rest* of the web. Twitter is making its stream available to both Bing and Google. Collecta has focused on doing something *different*.

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Real-time streaming search from companies like Collecta is the transformational force behind the next generation of Media and will impact the way we see breaking news, entertainment, brand mentions and more.

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Collecta’s Realtime Search on the timely topic of Swine Flu

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Press Release here.
In the past several months I’ve written about the effects of splintering media, the amazing new medium exemplified in Twitter and how social networks are changing news.
Inherent in that has been the idea that the web – or what we know today as our online life – is in mid transformation and we’re [...]

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Search is broken – indexing only published data, with huge delays. Realtime, expressed information is the future.

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In 2003 when I had been heading up AOL Search for a while, we began to bang structured data into search results pages on a query-by-query basis. We used pre-formatted javascript templates that were selected based on keywords, and filled from the freshest, most relevant data we could find.
In today’s parlance we had widgetized [...]

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Good week and good progress from two projects that are near and dear to my heart.
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1) Summize released a location feature that isolates comments and conversations to a geographic area. Great for getting a sense of events (tech meetup NY vs tech meetup SF) and happenings (see what people IN CHINA are saying [...]

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1) I have gone independent – leaving my good friends and respected colleagues at Reuters (now ThomsonReuters) to take a spin at early-stage ventures. Advising, angel investing, like an EIR without the “residence” part. I’ll write more about it soon.
2) One of the companies I am working with is Summize. Very promising platform for real [...]

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