Blog Archives for the tag Real-Time

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Watch Wikipedia Updates On a Google Map

A few weeks ago, I wrote about an app that showed Wikipedia updates in real-time. The information flew by quickly in a stream, showing exactly how active the site is…

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Watch Wikipedia Activity Stream In Real-Time

This is absolutely amazing. We know that Wikipedia gets additions, edits, and deletions all of the time, but without a visualization we just have to assume that’s the case. With…

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Glympse's Android version has over 1mm downloads

Glympse, a unique location sharing app announced today that the Android version of its app has been downloaded over one million times. This is a huge milestone for the service,…

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4SQoogle shows foursquare check-ins on Google Maps

We’ve written about some of the cool things that you can do with the foursquare API. We’ve seen visualizations of check-ins, and tools to help you find places around highway…

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Livefyre says it can increase pageviews

Livefyre, which you may notice provides the commenting system we use here at The Next Web (this is our full disclosure), announced this week that is has launched version 2.0…

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Bitly expands to reputation monitoring

According to a report by AdAge, Bitly has pushed out new reputation monitoring and social search features for its popular link shortening and analytics service. Since Twitter has decided to…

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The best Justin Bieber parody ever

Sad fact: the video for Justin Bieber’s song ‘Baby’ has more than 390 million views. Happy fact: people mock it mercilessly. Better news: the best parody or cover of the song…