There’s been a lot happening on the real-time web in the past month. So much so that I’ve not had a chance to stop and update you here.
Here are some of the highlights over the last 30 days:
Echo and our partners:
- Echo goes live on Nirvana, Eminem, Limp Bizkit and Scotty McCreery’s (American Idol Winner) websites
- USA network’s Chatter product (Powered by Echo) is reporting 25k concurrent users 250k uniques with 20% commenting. Read more
- Echo starts hitting 50k real-time streams per minute peak
- Our partners Arktan are featured in a video great piece by TheTVNews.
Interesting Articles:
AllThingsD writes about Facebook’s continues domination of the web.
Most interesting is this section:
What replaces the declining searchable Web is a new and “fully connected” digital life. You may have heard this before. After all, the promise of the Web was to connect pages with hyperlinks. Well, this time, “connected” means much more. It means the Web connects us, as people, to each one of the individuals online; and those connections, ultimately, extend from one of us to all of us.
Just as significantly, this all happens in real time, and at nearly all times.
It’s clear we are moving from connecting pages with flat hyperlinks to connecting them by Real-time streams. Is your site a first class node on the new web, or will it be cannibalized by Facebook and other social networks?
Technology review writes how Facebook has used Publishers to grow its footprint
The pivotal notion from the post is this:
The irony, if you can call it that, is that Facebook could never have accomplished all this without the help of all the world’s publishers. They need the traffic Facebook sends their way even more than Facebook needs to make its presence felt on yet another website. To opt out of the Like button army is to leave page views, and therefore money, on the table.
Is your site a tributary to FB or are you implementing a more strategic plan that allows you to leverage Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and many other tools and technologies for distribution, engagement and monetization?
David Wesson writes about the continued march towards social TV.
Echo has been doing a LOT of Social TV work with TLC, Rainbow Media (In particular AMC with Mad Men, The Killing and others) and NBCU (In particular with USA Networks and their top shows).
