Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The real-time web is a set of technologies and practices which enable users to receive information as soon as it is published by its authors, rather than requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates.The real-time web is fundamentally different from ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The real-time web is a set of technologies and practices which enable users to receive information as soon as it is published by its authors, rather than requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates.The real-time web is fundamentally different from real-time computing since there is no knowing when, or if, a response will be received. The information types transmitted this way are often short messages, status updates, news alerts, or links to longer documents. 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.