Comments on: Behind OneRiot, better real-time Twitter search http://www.building43.com/videos/2009/09/29/behind-oneriot-better-real-time-twitter-search/ We're building43 - what are you building? Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robert J Taylor http://www.building43.com/videos/2009/09/29/behind-oneriot-better-real-time-twitter-search/comment-page-1/#comment-537 Robert J Taylor Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:12:34 +0000 http://www.building43.com/?p=1582#comment-537 Love the meaningful real-time & pulse search capabilities with OneRiot. Interesting point about the focus on Twitter versus Facebook for searching real-time conversations -- Twitter's stream is open, public (by default), but Facebook isn't. Surely Facebook would respond that it wants to own real-time search of its own users' activity but the problem is Facebook isn't the whole web. I'd rather use a service that incorporated all publicly available activity on the web rather than just one (hugely popular) service. At one time AOL owned most of the popular activity within it's borders but the openness of the Internet itself won out over the (hugely popular) closed system and the rest is history. In my opinion Facebook will lose the real-time race unless it opens up. Of course, I'm no analyst, just a geek who's watched this play out time and time again... Love the meaningful real-time & pulse search capabilities with OneRiot. Interesting point about the focus on Twitter versus Facebook for searching real-time conversations — Twitter’s stream is open, public (by default), but Facebook isn’t. Surely Facebook would respond that it wants to own real-time search of its own users’ activity but the problem is Facebook isn’t the whole web. I’d rather use a service that incorporated all publicly available activity on the web rather than just one (hugely popular) service. At one time AOL owned most of the popular activity within it’s borders but the openness of the Internet itself won out over the (hugely popular) closed system and the rest is history. In my opinion Facebook will lose the real-time race unless it opens up.

Of course, I’m no analyst, just a geek who’s watched this play out time and time again…

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