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Quick Look: Jagged Alliance – Back in Action

I have very fond memories of Jagged Alliance 2 from back in the day and I always considered it one of the most underrated tactical shooter experiences that also had role-playing experiences and a modern narrative treat.Back in Action is a remake created by bitComposer which takes the very courageous decision of elimi...

10 February 2012
18:41 GMT

Keep Track of the Fastest Growing Facebook Pages in Near Real-Time

Facebook has worked itself into every part of the web and few can afford to ignore it anymore. Most companies, organizations, brands, bands and so on have a Facebook page and it's an important way of making yourself available where your fans, users or customers are. Facebook offers a rather comprehensive analyt...

17 January 2012
04:21 GMT

Google Analytics Finally Debuts Real-Time Analytics, for Instant Feedback

Google is finally introducing something that probably should have been available a long time ago, real-time data for Analytics. At long last, webmasters can check out how many people are visiting their site or any page at any given time. Real-time Analytics also enable webmasters to run more complex campaigns and ...

30 September 2011
04:24 GMT

As Expected, the Facebook Ticker Hate-Fest Has Begun

On cue, Facebook users started complaining about the changes to the News Feed and especially about the Facebook Ticker that the site has just unveiled. The Ticker had been in testing for several months now and feedback, at least from the people who bothered to voice their opinions has been mostly negative. The Fac...

22 September 2011
09:51 GMT

Paradox Interactive Announces Real Time Squad Strategy Game Cartel

Video game developer and publisher Paradox Interactive has announced that it is working on a new title called Cartel, which will mix squad based action with real time mechanics.Cartel takes place in a near future when a number of very big corporations have managed to become powerful enough to battle each other for wo...

22 September 2011
09:48 GMT

Facebook's Hated 'Happening Now' Officially Debuts as the Facebook Ticker

Facebook has debuted a revamp of the News Feed, arguably the most important feature on the site. It now merges both Top Stores and Recent Updates in a way that makes sense for both frequent users and those who rarely visit the site. Along with the redesigned news feed though, Facebook also debuted a feature that&#...

21 September 2011
09:04 GMT

Digg Unveils Real-Time Newswire Feed for Customized News Curation

Digg has fallen on bad times following last year's ill received update, but is now launching an interesting new tool which could turn things around, if only because it's the only tool of its kind.Digg Newswire is a new real-time feed which enables users to view the very latest Digg submissions as well as th...

9 August 2011
07:11 GMT

Google's Real Time Search Coming Back, Without Twitter but with Google+

Not so long ago the future was real-time. Tools like Twitter showed us a world where information travels at light speed and where days and hours became minutes and seconds. Too bad this future is already the past, Google buried its real-time search feature a few weeks back after it failed to struck a deal with Twi...

4 August 2011
10:43 GMT

You Can Search Only for Images Less than a Week Old on Google Now

Google has been focusing on image search more in recent months and now it's adding another small feature that may end up doing quite a bit of difference. There is now a new filter option for Image Search, enabling you to restrict results to just images from the past week. That may not seem like much, but it ...

15 July 2011
08:03 GMT

Facebook Tests Real-Time 'Happening Now' Feed

Facebook is testing an interesting new feature that should create a much more engaging experience for heavy users especially. Some users have noticed a real-time feed on the right-hand sidebar displaying the actions of their friends - likes, newly added friends and so on - as they happen, similar to the way the Twitt...

11 June 2011
06:19 GMT

The Technology Behind Facebook's Real Time Comments

Facebook quietly rolled out real-time comments a couple of weeks ago. At the time, users noticed that new comments on status updates, photos, videos and so on started coming in as soon as they were posted and without updating or reloading the page. Facebook has now confirmed the feature and explained the technology b...

8 February 2011
06:35 GMT

Facebook Comments Now Update in Real Time

Facebook is going a bit more real-time as a couple of new features seem to indicate. The social network has quietly introduced real-time comments which are updated as soon as someone posts one without having to refresh the page. Facebook has also rolled out real-time post insights for page administrators.Facebook has...

21 January 2011
09:47 GMT

Google Search Adds Better Product Refinements and Real-Time Results in Social Search

Google usually introduces several new features or changes to its search engine each week, yet not all of them are worthy of an entire blog post from the company. One such new feature that you may have noticed is adding more refinements for certain searches. To make sure that users don't miss out on anything, Goo...

1 November 2010
12:22 GMT

Behind the Scenes of Google Docs' Real-Time Collaboration Technology

One of the biggest challenges Google Docs developers face is not building a word or spreadsheet editor in the cloud, it's enabling real-time collaboration for them. With the introduction of the new editors, Docs now handles collaboration differently and the team is running a series of posts explaining the more t...

23 September 2010
05:44 GMT

Google Docs Gets Real-Time Collaborative Highlighting

Google Docs may be for many a cloud office suite, a replacement for expensive desktop apps. As a stand-alone app, though, it's just 'good enough,' it doesn't quite stack up to its bigger competitors, but it's enough for most people.But Docs is so much more than that, the real advantage of a c...

1 September 2010
04:17 GMT

Blogger's Real-Time Stats Feature Live for Everyone

Blogger has now launched the Stats feature, available in beta so far, for everyone. The feature should now show up in the Dashboard for every Blogger user."Just in time for our eleventh birthday, we are excited to introduce Stats for Blogger," Noah Fiedel and Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineers at Blogger, announced."F...

31 August 2010
06:38 GMT

Yahoo Search Suggestions Go Real Time

Search suggestions are a very helpful tool and all major search engines have an implementation. Yahoo is now introducing an interesting twist as its suggestions will be much more relevant to the moment the search is conducted. The suggestions will now be near real-time and the emphasis will be on short term relevancy...

3 July 2010
05:22 GMT

Google Introduces Twitter Rewind Button

Google has released an interesting new feature for its real-time search, which enables users to ‘travel through time’ and see what people were saying about any topic at any point in history. Well, in a rather short history, they can only go as far back as February 2010, not exactly ancient times even by I...

14 April 2010
11:26 GMT

Twitter Is Now 4 Years Old

Most people only heard about Twitter last year, and how could they not with all the media frenzy, but the microblogging service is now four years old, having celebrated its birthday yesterday, 21st of March. It started out innocuous enough, but these days Twitter has the power to change the world. Or, at least, that...

22 March 2010
07:35 GMT

Twitter Turns On the Firehose for Several Startups

Twitter has made the big announcement anticipated for several months now, it has opened, or rather, extended access to its data 'firehose,' but only to seven startups for now. Twitter revealed that it would open up its firehose API to more partners a couple of months ago. Until now, it has partnered with Go...

2 March 2010
05:11 GMT

Google Real-Time Search Now Includes Facebook Pages

Google has been adding new sources to its real-time search from time to time and after the recent addition of MySpace status updates comes a new one that is much more interesting in the big picture. Google has announced that real-time results from Facebook Pages are now live on the search engine, making it the 12th s...

25 February 2010
05:28 GMT

Yahoo and Twitter Sign Partnership Deal

Yahoo is moving forward with its big social web integration plan and has announced Twitter features will be available across many of its online proprieties and tweets will start showing up in search results. This comes after Yahoo also announced a similarly wide-reaching deal with Facebook. Twitter results are alread...

24 February 2010
08:30 GMT

MySpace Status Updates Now Live in Google Real-Time Search

Google came a little late to the real-time web party, just like any of the mainstream search engines, but it is now firing on all cylinders and real-time results often pop-up mingled with the regular ones. Google scrapes several sources for the real-time data, Twitter, Yahoo Answers and many others, and now it has ad...

17 February 2010
05:54 GMT

Google News to Get Trending Topics

People have been spotting a significant Google News redesign in the wild for some time now and Google has finally confirmed that it is indeed testing a brand new homepage for its news aggregator service. Interestingly enough, Facebook isn't the only one being inspired by Twitter, it looks like Google liked the ...

16 February 2010
06:39 GMT

Get Ready to be 'Shocked' by Digg's Upcoming Changes

Digg has had an interesting year in 2009 as the site struggled to regain its identity in a world ruled by Twitter and Facebook. It mostly focused on revenue and apparently has managed to fix that particular problem and now it's looking at growth again planning some radical changes to make the site relevant again...

22 January 2010
11:03 GMT

Google Uses Follower Numbers to Rank Tweets in Search Results

The real-time web has been making waves for the best part of 2009 and many were quick to herald it as a crucial component for the future web. Recently, it looks like those voices may have gotten it right, as both Google and Bing have introduced real-time results, mostly from Twitter, to their searches. Google, in pa...

13 January 2010
10:54 GMT

The Google Search Appliance Gets Twitter Results

Real-time search is the hot topic right now, especially since Google has rolled out a full-blown service inside the main search engine. Bing has been doing it for more than a month now, Yahoo has just revealed it will integrate tweets as well, and now real-time search is moving to enterprise search as Google has ann...

11 December 2009
09:42 GMT

Yahoo Integrates Twitter in Search Results

Yahoo Search isn't dead and buried just because Microsoft pretty much bought it outright. No, Yahoo can be an innovator even if it's running Bing and putting a big purple Yahoo sticker on it, or, at least, that's the official version. And just to show everyone that it's not out of the picture, it ...

11 December 2009
03:29 GMT

MySpace Launches Real-Time Stream API

MySpace may be late to the real-time party, but it's going all out now that it arrived. At the Le Web conference in Paris, the ex-social network and future entertainment hub announced that it’s launching several new APIs for developers including the Real-Time Stream API which will enable third-party services to...

9 December 2009
11:41 GMT

Archenemies, Google and Facebook, Sign Real-Time Search Deal

Google made a big splash with the announcement of the real-time search features it's rolling out over the course of a few days. Apart from the feature itself, there's another announcement that warrants some attention, Google has signed a deal with Facebook to integrate data from the world's biggest so...

8 December 2009
04:47 GMT

Google Does Real-Time Search, Becomes an Instant Leader in the Field

If there was any doubt that real-time was becoming one of the biggest things in search they've been dispelled now that Google has entered the ring all guns blazing. The company held a “Search Event” to make several announcements, though it was scarce with the details beforehand, and it certainly del...

8 December 2009
03:46 GMT

Digg Turns 5, Gets an Official Day in San Francisco

Digg may not be the hottest thing in Silicon Valley at the moment, thanks to Facebook and Twitter stealing all the spotlight, but don't discount the social news aggregator just yet. As it turns five years old, the site is looking forward to a new chapter in its history as the features implemented over the past y...

5 December 2009
06:12 GMT

Taptu and OneRiot Partner to Bring Mobile Real-Time Search

Real-time search is heading to its rightful home, mobile phones, with a new partnership between mobile search engine Taptu and real-time search engine OneRiot. The idea is to bring a real-time experience to mobile phones in a way that takes advantage of their capabilities and solves their shortcomings. The new Taptu ...

10 November 2009
11:46 GMT

Digg Tests Trends Feature to Bring Up Stories Faster

Digg was one of the most promising sites for news and content discovery thanks to its speed and the fact that it relied on its users to weed out the garbage. But, then, Twitter came along and, all of a sudden, Digg looked like a slumbering dinosaur where things could take days before they reached the main page. Since...

5 November 2009
03:46 GMT

Yahoo Partners with OneRiot to Provide Real-Time Results

Yahoo isn't giving up on search just yet and, in fact, it's looking to compete with its main rivals in the real-time search space. Both Google and Bing have announced deals with Twitter to include data from the microblogging service inside the search results. Yahoo, though, is taking another route by partne...

4 November 2009
05:33 GMT

StumbleUpon Rolls Out Beta Redesign to All Users

StumbleUpon has been having somewhat of an identity crisis for the past months and is now in the process of reinventing itself as a social search engine. A big part of this transformation is the new design it revealed earlier this month, bringing quite a few changes to the look and feel but, more importantly, to the ...

29 October 2009
08:19 GMT

Yahoo May Partner with OneRiot to Offer Real-Time Search

Yahoo isn't a search company. At least that's the tune it’s playing lately as it outsourced its search capabilities to Microsoft in a landmark deal. Not everyone is convinced that Yahoo got the best deal but content is the new strategy and Yahoo is sticking with it. But it may not be out of the search...

28 October 2009
05:50 GMT

Google Results Will Be Influenced by Your Friends with 'Social Search'

The search world is changing and it's becoming more complex and more spread out. The big search engines are doing a great job at recovering the static information available on the World Wide Web but a much poorer one with real-time information or with social search. But that is changing with both Bing and Google...

22 October 2009
09:09 GMT

Bing Introduces Twitter Search

Real time is the talk of the town these days but so far the big search engines have been outmaneuvered by small startups. Twitter is currently 'the' place for real-time information but the means of accessing it are still lacking. Twitter's own search engine is a good place to start but it is fairly lim...

22 October 2009
03:57 GMT

Google and Twitter Sign Search Deal

The real-time web just got a lot more competitive with two of the largest search engines in the market announcing deals with Twitter. Both Google and Bing will now show tweets from the microblogging platform in their results pages. Both deals have been speculated for a while and now they've been made official. G...

22 October 2009
02:59 GMT

FriendFeed Cofounder Not Giving Up on the Service Yet

The chatter is once again picking up around FriendFeed, the real-time social aggregator Facebook acquired a couple of months ago. At the time of the deal many were left wondering about the fate of the service which, despite not becoming as successful as hoped, managed to secure a core of loyal users and to stay ahead...

20 October 2009
09:59 GMT

Searchtastic Allows Users to Search for Historical Tweets

The real-time web has been getting a lot of hype in the past months and, as with any nascent technology, especially online, it has its great supporters and its detractors. The truth may be somewhere in the middle, as real time is not the be all and end all of online information, but, once it gets a little more fleshe...

12 October 2009
04:54 GMT

Search for Results from the Past Minute with Google URL Trick

Google got a little outflanked when the whole “real time” thing started becoming big. It's the theme of the year in tech terms. But Twitter is stealing all the limelight, real time is all about the microblogging platform. Google even admitted to this several months back. But don't mistake this f...

14 September 2009
03:33 GMT

FriendFeed Open-Sources Internal Tornado Framework

Since Facebook acquired FriendFeed last month, everyone has been wondering what's going to happen to the service and the technology behind it. Many were speculating that Facebook will incorporate some components at some point, or at least some feature. But no one really expected Facebook to open-source an import...

11 September 2009
08:54 GMT

WordPress.com Adds Support for Real-Time RSS Feeds

With everyone quick to jump on the “RSS is dead” bandwagon, WordPress.com decided to give the aging spec a shot at fighting the “real-time” war, which, for now, is being won by Twitter, if only on hype and sheer size. A new feature called RSSCloud has been implemented by the blog-hosting servi...

8 September 2009
03:28 GMT

Real-Time Search Engine CrowdEye Introduces New Ranking System

The “real time” is as popular as ever and there is already a large number of services ready to cater to the growing market. CrowdEye, a real-time search engine that may actually have a shot at getting ahead, is launching a new ranking algorithm for real-time searches, as well as a number of features desig...

3 September 2009
10:09 GMT

Real-Time Feed Discovery Site Lazyfeed Launches for Everyone

With aggregators and link sharing sites or other popular services like Twitter or FriendFeed to help users keep up with events and discover new content, RSS/Atom feeds are becoming very unfashionable. Coupled with the slowness inherent to the technology, slow when compared with the responsiveness of Twitter at least,...

26 August 2009
07:26 GMT

Facebook Launches Real-Time Search

Facebook is making one major announcement after another and, just hours after the company announced it had acquired social aggregator site FriendFeed, the social network is launching a new real-time search engine, which has been in the works for the past couple of months, having started public testing in June. The ne...

11 August 2009
04:18 GMT

Google Reveals Its New Search Index, Caffeine

Google is the king of search with a comfortable roughly 70 percent share of the market and it's not likely this will change anytime soon. Still, with the competition heating up, in terms of features at least even if it's not actually making a dent in the market share, the company isn't sitting down and...

11 August 2009
03:36 GMT

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

In a move that makes a lot of sense for Facebook, the social networking giant has acquired up-and-coming social aggregator FriendFeed, which has been at the forefront of innovation in social media since it was founded in 2007. The financial terms weren't disclosed but the Wall Street Journal claims it was a $50 ...

11 August 2009
02:52 GMT


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