Proposed Topics RTWS

Big Questions about the Real-Time Web:

• Personally I'm interested in understanding the deep motives that are pushing us all in this direction - what are the primal or instinctive drives that shape our interaction.
• My big question is how we manage synchronous and asynchronous communications colliding from opposite directions, and that stressing "real-time" misses this.
• With real-time information, what happens to the analysis that often accompanied "time-delayed" info. Can real-time analysis keep up and provide needed context.  Also, curation, filtering and anticipating personalized user needs are themes important to me.
• How do you turn real time web data into useful experiences and information for users and businesses particularly in news.
• How do we filter out what is relevant.
• Interoperability. Data definition and exchange across organizational and system boundaries.
• What applications can be enabled by the real-time web?
• Philosophically: 1) how it's going to change user behavior? 2) what does it "mean" in terms of cause and effect. 
• Business: 1) Designing product opportunities 2) How to "value"
• Potential markets for real-time services.
• Are we there yet? How much can people consume? How much is too much?
• Just there to learn ...
• What happened to the "slow web" movement? Undo?
• What are the uses for large corporations beyond traffic, stocks, weather.
• Scalability and relationship of the real-time search and general search
• User experience issues, social tools, interaction design issues. Social Analytics and mining.

• Conversation analysis and realtime relational analysis (uses for advertising, marketing)
• Real-Time Analytics, Collective Intelligence, and Business Intelligence.
• Does real-time web have an appeal to the larger masses and not just the 100-200k active early adopters.
• Are we building what "real" users want; for mainstream adoption?  Where are the use cases demonstrating real-world need?  Where' the money?
• What are the services I can use to enable it for my site? What are things other people are making that I can connect to? What are the potential uses for it that I'm not thinking of?
• What kind of uptake are we going to see from mainstream users? How will this affect business collaboration? What should enterprise software vendors do to support the real-time web?
• 1. Do the mass majority of consumers really care?  2. How will it change advertising and marketing?  3. How fast is real-time? What's acceptable?
• Scalability and relationship of the real-time search and general search can we avoid centralization? can we do it without users noticing/learning?
• How does the decentralized version work?
• How will it bring changes to the Enterprise from a process standpoint?
• Real-time discovery. new technologies that can improve real-time discovery.
• Want to hear what other people are going to do with it? A world where everyone is connected 24/7 with very low latency and & "high" bandwidth will mess up social conventions. Google Wave is an interesting leading indicator where people can't quite decide if it is blogging, email, IM, a twiki, a group collaboration tool, etc. Just moving from asynchronous non-real time to synchronous, interrupting real time for more communications will have interesting social consequences.
• Will companies segment the market by real time vs. delayed as with stock quote services?
• What are the ways that the real-time web will alter user behavior?  What are the specific business problems the RTW will help solve?
• When will the mainstream internet user understand the idea of the real-time web, and realize its potential?
• What's it all mean? How active do I have to be in filtering incoming stuff? Who's making it mobile?
• YourVersion is a real-time discovery engine, so it would be great to discuss real-time discovery and learn about new tools that we can use to make that better
• How can we harvest the social graph of an editorial team to provide interesting information for users and advertisers?
• How does it change our relationships?  How does it change the way information moves? How does it change business? How does it change customer support and services?
• Why did it take so long to get here?
• How does one evaluate the credibility of real-time information?
• What is the current state-of-the-art?
• New user paradigms for aggregating, filtering and sharing real-time streams.
• Is it going to become an open infrastructure, or remain centralized in the hands of a handful of companies?
• How do we ensure that data is not locked up by a few companies with special deals?  Why is Marshall so damn sexy?
• It applicability to real-world users; how the real-time conversation is inherently limited; how it will be dominated by Twitter in the near term.
• What is real time web? What are the components? What are the tools to help you develop a great service around real time?  How do i avoid over dependence on twitter?
• How can we make the web real-time while keeping it distributed?
• I'm interested in content classification, influence ranking and spam detection.
• How is the real-time web changing the practice of crafting public policy both for those within government and those outside?  How can grassroots organizations organize their activists to use the real-time web to enhance popular influence in legislative processes?
• Impacts on business collaboration between SaaS apps, on premise packaged apps (SAP/Oracle/Peoplesoft), and workflow collaboration.
• Where does science fit in?
• How can I put a USB port on my brain?
• What is it? Who is using it? How does it work? How can I get up to speed?
• How are open standards going to push the real-time web forward?
• I'm interested in the real time web and its impact on ecommerce and services.  Flash Sales, social networking driven marketing, social commerce, reviews/guides
• What is the state if implementation of these big ideas.  Who is using pubsubhubub et al NOW!
• What kind of infrastructure are people deploying to cope with real-time computing needs, which are much more demanding than static content. How are people marketing themselves as opposed to their non-realtime competition.
• What types of alliances make sense for real-time companies?
• What open standardizations being are being initiated and implemented?
• What does real-time web mean for businesses? Several apparent benefits, but could there be cons? Is real-time communication to/from the Internet useful to only some industries? Or only to businesses of a certain size?
• How will it affect work in America?
• How the web infrastructure changes. Applications of real-time web outside of social media.
• Access to the conversation by diving into the "stream" is an amazing, emerging meme - but managing the massive amounts of data, and community touch points that come along with it could drown a person! How do we manage it? Harness the power of the real-time web, not just tread water - hunt and peck - dip in and out? How do we SWIM?
• What are the alternatives to advertising based business models in the RTW? 
• "Real-Time" is a general term depending on how often you dip into the stream and for how long.  Some people check their email a few times a week, and some people can't ignore their Facebook Newsfeed for ten minutes.  So if the RTW is a window of time, is that window widening to include past and future event?  Or shrinking to become more specific (user, location, subject...etc)?
• What are the mental, sociological, and physical limitations of "Real-Time" services?  Mobile bandwidth?  Free time?  Attention span?
• Interested in meeting other technologies with a passion for real-time web. Also interested in hearing about other applications and techniques.
• Real-time seems like a feature, not an entire product.  I want to talk to people about what the entire product looks like, what it should do, and how this new entire product relates to our existing notions of keyword-based search.
• Does it hurt?
• How will innovation in user interfaces move more and more of everyday conversations from IRL to the realtime web?
• How can we efficiently integrate information streams arriving at fundamentally different frequencies.  How will the next generation of news and journalism be influenced by customers having these data streams?
• Where do i start?  why do people think this is new? no wait..  what's changed over the past 10 years of creating this kind of search and discovery and what can we learn from the prior search systems built from 1999 forward, to apply to new systems people are working toward today.
• Cons of living in the real time spotlight. Filtering noise in real time. Decision making with real time information
• Understanding and organizing information on the real time web, processing massive volumes of real time web data to distill what is important
• How is the real time web evolving, post twitter.  - How are the Real time delivery mechanisms like PSHB/RSSCloud evolving
• What are businesses doing to differentiate their applications from everything that's being built today? How "real-time" does the real-time web need to be?
• How can we apply real-time technologies in a way that preserves the benefits of asynchronous communications?
• Where are we headed?   
• What technologies will become obsolete as we go real-time?  
• How can we measurably improve our online experiences as individuals and businesses as real-time comes of age?
• How will the real-time web drive value for users without adding to the problem of information overload?  
• How will the real-time web augment and enhance existing web experiences? 
• What kind of new applications and services will succeed?
• When we say "real-time" what are we talking about? I still have problems considering twitter real-time, to me it's still just chat, im, push notifications, and things built off of there.   Information overload. In order to make something real-time and useful, a very fine line needs to be drawn between pestering someone, and giving them additional functionality they're going to like. Think Pointcast - amazing idea, completely destroyed your computer if you tried to run it. How do you do that? (my previous job was with a startup that was/is wrestling with this exact issue)  - Is it really such a good thing? Does everything need to grab you right now? You're going to feel stressed if you're not around to get the information right now at this minute (you probably already do with twitter). You'll be glued to your computer, iphone, etc.
• How to transition online activists to marketplace activists.
• How do we make real-time web work on people's existing infrastructure.  What are the different use cases in real-time (e.g. personal v. pubic data)?
• What is the most fun way for people to share photographic art in the future?
• How is the real-time web going to impact user experience on mobile devices?  What are the different back-end technologies that power the real-time web? And what are the current deficiencies and problems with these technologies that can be improved upon?
• What is the business value? Is it a choice or a necessity?
• What kind of interpretation of intra-day changes across the web would be valuable to professional business users and investors? 
• What is special about the techniques needed to discover, measure and extract patterns of how does the web change over the course of a day -- over hours, over minutes? 
• What are the techniques to distinguish the significant change patterns from the incidental ones?
   

Topics that people plan on presenting about

• Hmmm. I do think there's a desire to recreate that sense of a small town - the real time gossip networks that formed the pre-digital internet. If I decide to try lead on something I'd ask us to look back into history at metaphors that map what is happening now to classic patterns in human behavior. I believe everything is driven by deep history, deeply primal even instinctual needs, what is new is not truly new, just a recapitulation and that perhaps the Industrial Age was what was the odd thing - not that we are moving back to a real time dialogue.
• I'd love to lead a talk on latency, telecommunications integration, and/or Activity Streams
• Would love to lead some discussions on XMPP and other push technologies.
• The Real Time Web Technologies that wouldn't exist without APIs and how you do it to become part of the real time web
• Nothing pops to mind immediately, but I'm here to help if you need it!  I work in the Virtual Worlds space.
• I've developed a multi-user, real-time Facebook game which uses Websockets and the Kaazing Gateway.  I'd be happy to do a short presentation/demo about this app. (http://apps.facebook.com/earthcontrol/)
• 1) The content and user experience of the rtw:  Communication & Experience Sharing. 2) Business:  Designing and Developing a product for the rtw - case study, Black Tonic.
• Can we keep ActivityStrea.ms from locking itself into a 2008 worldview?  What should a portability policy disclose? What's on the checklist?
• real-time search, scalability and relationship of real-time to general search
• Social analytics and how used by brands for realtime marketing/advertising to social graph Social tools and how they might address not just real time information (feed readers) but also communication Tagging and structuring the flow
• Practical applications of the real-time web that start generating revenue now.
• The potential for realtime to drive real business innovation; the lateral applications/implications of realtime across a wide range of industries; the intersection of the "real-time web" with other emerging technologies in particular mobile technologies; we are london-based so would like to share the european perspective's;
• I can lead discussion about building real-time-web clients (Seesmic), platforms being used to leverage the RRW, Data Portability issues
• How brands can affectively communicate and remain relevant in the real-time web.
• Real-time search, scalability and relationship of real-time to general search
• pubsubhubbub + webfinger
• PubSubHubbub, XMPP, and real-time protocols.
• Yes rssCloud vs Pubsubhubbub vs Openmicroblogging
• Real-time discovery
• Reducing latency in systems design (from the silicon up to cross colocation and to the end user) so I'd be happy to participate in any of the more technical discussions.
• Real-time collaboration.
  Yes -- I'd like to talk about the "Real-Time People Web" (see http://blog.vark.com/?p=201) -- and I can also talk about what we're doing with Aardvark in this regard, and how Social Search more generally interacts with the real-time web in shaping the future of search.  (NOTE:  I am having trouble rescheduling a board meeting I have at 1pm that day -- hopefully I will get it pushed back a few hours, but will likely need to leave the summit early, unfortunately -- so I should participate in talks/conversations earlier in the day)
• The Mobile (and Local) real-time Web.
• I am interested in presenting on real-time discovery. My start-up YourVersion launched at TechCrunch50 and won People's Choice Award. I've given many presentations in the past at the Web 2.0 Expo, Startonomics, fbFund Rev, and Stanford. I'd also be happy to lead a discussion on the topic of real-time discovery.
• Customer Support / Technical Support in the Real-Time Web
• Recommendations, namely, mining information from the real-time stream, like entities, or URLs, then leveraging this mined information to provide engaging recommendations like related news, blog posts, images, videos, tweets, etc.
• The merge of real-time web and the semantic web, in particular using real-time web infrastructure as the infra for web services to communicate (ala RPC)
• Nah, I'll just listen and agitate :)
• Potentially, but nothing specific comes to mind.
• None at this time. Mostly interested in learning.
• Real-time protocols (PSHB & RSSCloud) use case
• StatusNet, OpenMicroBlogging, Open Source, status.net
• I am all over the teal-time search angle - lots of stuff is being generated - how can we find it?
• I have been staying informed about the changing nature of online activism as we move towards Gov2.0, and would be interested in helping lead a session on the subject.
• Impact of realtime collaboration in the business context
• Filtering the real-time web.
• Real-time science!
• I'm very interested in the nexus between consumer software and real-time communication systems.
• Real-time collaboration--more than just communicating, but actually getting something done!
• Would be happy to talk about the evolution of Google's crawl/indexing/serving from batch to incremental to realtime over the last few years.
• Gathering social media engagement data
• Real-time web infrastructure
• Applications of real-time web outside of social media.
• Discovery is the key element that has been amplified by the R|T web - to me, this is one of the most interesting aspects and will continue to be an area that needs to be explored, and monetized. How we do this, across communities and user interfaces and establish standards is another thing.
• How brands can affectively communicate and remain relevant in the real-time web.
  Information Theory and the Real-Time Web.  Why is a map useful?  Because it list the roads, highways, and state capitals?  No.  A map is useful not because of the information it contains, but because of all the information it eliminates.    Example:  A perfect map of California would be a REPLICA of California, complete down to each grail of sand.  But to get from Los Angeles to Mountain View I don't need to know where every rock and tree in the state is...  I just need to know how to get to HWY 101.    There are plenty examples of this already on the web, spam filtering and search engines being the two most obvious.  But what about the RTW?  The combination of mobile devices and social networks has created a fire hose of real-time information, but to what end?  How do we pear this down to what is important, useful, and most importantly, valuable to a user?
• We have a real-time semantic matching platform that is event driven. The system provides matching services for Bintro.com. At Bintro we use continuous matching and semantic technologies to match people for employment, partnerships, investing, mentoring and charity. We will be soon moving into other categories.  I'd like to discuss our objective, the role of real-time matching and semantics and an overview of how we do it. Also - it would be great to discuss where this will lead as it's a very exciting field.
• For the past 3 1/2 years we've been developing real-time personalization for search, which involves using real-time user inputs to implicit infer intent in order to immediately re-rank results. We are one of the 50 companies listed at the top of http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives..._companies.php.  I'd be more than happy to participate in or lead any conversations regarding real-time personalization of search or real-time search in general. Please feel free to contact me.
• Challenges with real time web data What is the difference between real time search and discovery What is the difference between real time results v. flowing data Presentation and usability issues with real time web data
• analytics on the real time web
• What is PageRank for the real-time web look like?  Presenting or leading a discussion is fine. thx!
• XMPP, Federated Microblogging
• Twitter and news, i.e., how can twitter be leveraged to provide new experiences for news and breaking events.
• I was going to say no, but writing the answer in above started me thinking. I've become increasingly aware of people burying their heads in their phones while with other people, at the dinner table, while hanging out, or in the middle of a conversation, even.   It used to be considered bad form to use your phone when eating. People did, but it was rare. Now you have to use your phone while eating to twitter you're eating. Then once you update twitter, of course you're going to read your updates, and keep checking back to say if anyone replied to you. Oh, and don't forget checking in on foursquare! I've had entire dinner conversations that were nothing but the two of us continually checking twitter and talking about the replies we were getting, or the messages we were sending.  Isn't this just going to get worse? And is there anything we can do about it to stop it?  I'm not a psychologist or anything (would LOVE if there is one who could do this session!!), but I think it's something worth talking about.
• Yes, very interested in leading or participating in a discussion about realtime search. Topics include, but are not limited to: relevancy, content vs. conversation, ranking vs. firehose approach, Twitter centric vs. web-wide, and best practices for integration of realtime search into applications, add-ons, websites, and other services.
  Getting real-time working on your existing infrastructure
• I don't know...  I speak regularly about running Stuck In Customs, the #1 travel photography blog in the world.  We have an active community and just implemented a few features that let people share in a real-time way.  We are also launching a new Real-Time way for people to share photography on an unannounced secret sister site.
• Yes, I would like to offer a contrarian and pragmatic viewpoint to real-time usage.
• combining peer-to-peer and real-time, implicit vs. explicit voting for popularity ranking
• How to "time-series" the open web. - Change detection and pattern extraction over sources and bodies of sources that are not usually considered "real time"; at all... corporate websites, speciality industry and research sources, commentary-oriented blogs, etc.