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5 Mar 2010

TutorialZine has written a tutorial and shown us how to create a “Who is online” widget with PHP, MySQL and jQuery. It will display the number of visitors, currently viewing your site, and it will even be able to detect the country your visitors are from and display it in a slide out panel.

Having access to real time data on your site userbase is a dream to any webmaster. Tools like Google Analytics give a great perspective on your site’s reach, but lack the real time feel a simple widget like this can provide.

Requirements: PHP, MySQL, jQuery Framework
Demo: http://demo.tutorialzine.com/2010/03/who-is-online-widget…
License: License Free

Google Real-Time Search Now Includes A Fraction Of Facebook Status Updates

In: web resources

25 Feb 2010

Google has just announced via tweet that it’s integrating Facebook Page updates into its real-time search results. Google first revealed that this was coming back in December, when it first started including real-time data in its search results. Other data sources for Google’s real-time results include MySpace and Twitter.

The only problem with the new addition is that Facebook is only granting Google access to updates from its 3 million Pages, which are generally for celebrities, politicians, brands, and local businesses — not your average Facebook user. That information could occasionally be useful, but the power of real-time search comes from having a large number of contributors. Facebook has a huge amount of data from its 400 million active users, but it isn’t sharing most of that with Google. Instead, it’s only granting full acess to user updates to Bing (though that isn’t live yet). Bing will still only be getting status updates that are shared with “Everyone“, but with its recent privacy overhaul in December, Facebook ensured that it would have far more of those than it used to.

Unlike Twitter, which is reportedly making money off of its search deals with Bing and Google, Facebook isn’t charging the search engines for its data. According to Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land, Facebook is giving away the status updates because they may drive more people back to the social network.

Here’s a sample of some of the updates you can get from Facebook Page updates:

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Blogging and the Real-time Web

In: web resources

11 Feb 2010

At the end of 2009, we talked abou the biggest stories in the blogging industry for 2009. One of those stories that will definitely gain more attention in 2010 is the subject of the real-time web.

We had the opportunity to interview Evan Britton. Evan is a longtime internet veteran who founded Sency in 2009. The goal of Sency is to bring real time content, links, and tools to internet users in an organized and simple fashion. I’ve been fascinated by how Sency’s tools can be put to use by bloggers and we wanted Evan to share some thoughts with you as well.

FYB:

Evan, tell us a little bit about your own background. How did things develop in your life to the point of launching Sency?

Evan:

I went to the first ever Twitter conference in Los Angeles – seeing the functionality that was offered through their API motivated me to build Sency.

FYB:

And why is the real-time web such a big deal? In other words, why should bloggers be taking notice?

Evan:

For years, many companies have tried to launch a search engine offering a new way to search. These new engines picked up steam because they didn’t offer the user something new. The real time web is different, it gives you a window into people’s minds at any time in regards to any subject matter. Bloggers have the ability to utilize this real time data to add in functionality to their site and learn more about what is being said right now in their respective niches.

FYB:

How do you see real-time search results shaping the future of how people browse the internet and utilize services?

Evan:

Many searches will always be best performed via Google. If you want to shop, or learn information about something, Google is the way to go. However, if you want to see what is being said right now about any person, event, sports team, or anything else – a real time search is the way to go. This new way to search is unique in that today the results will be different from what they were yesterday. Its instant, you are seeing what is happening right now in regards to a given keyword.

FYB:

What tools are available to help bloggers get a handle on the real-time web, and tell us in particular what Sency offers?

Evan:

There are a wealth of tools out there. I wrote about several real time web tools here. Sency offers bloggers the ability to have automatically updating, real time information, scrolling on their blog for any keyword. This information can add value to a blog instantly.

FYB:

If you can, give one example of how a blogger might utilize a real-time tool like Sency for research and blogging?

Evan:

Visit RealTimeBball.com. Click on your favorite pro basketball team, and you’ll see content scrolling for that respective team. So, a blog about the Knicks, can have scrolling automatically updating content for anytime someone mentions the knicks on the real time web. The second half of this youtube video gives a great tutorial for how to use the Sency widget.

FYB:

What other insights can you share about the power of the real-time web? What haven’t we covered?

Evan:

I think that bloggers should make a point to perform real time web searches in regards to the keywords of their industry weekly. Doing this can show you what people are saying and this can lead to ideas for future blog posts. Also, implementing real time web tools into a blog can have several benefits and over time, these tools are going to improve with time so it will be beneficial to get involved in the early going.

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