Results tagged “realtime”

Mayor Gavin Newsom had the gall -- the gall! -- to defend his Hawaiian sojourn , saying "I was gone Friday and Saturday...and one of the most remarkable things that’s happened in the last century is the ability to communicate with people in real time and engage in a dialogue and discussion and coordination and collaboration, without necessarily being physically in the same room." And you know what? Good for you, Mayor man. No,...

Bipartisan legislators introduced a bill in the California Senate Wednesday that would grant every child born within the state a $500 savings account, earmarked for higher education, a home downpayment, or retirement. We appreciate the idea of teaching young 'uns how to save for the future, sure. And we appreciate that people are working to counteract California's poverty. But, come on . . . finance lessons from the folks that have put California in the red?

Not content to take over earth, Google just announced a partnership with NASA to start taking over outer space too. The partnership will allow Google to show all sorts of cool things like 3-D maps of the moon and Mars and will allow for real time tracking of the international space station and the space shuttle. You will also be able to watch weather patterns and other things from outer space so hopefully it'll make it easier for the President to see major Hurricanes that are about to hit major cities.

As we mentioned earlier, our own SFist Jon is spending the day at our favorite sports blog, Deadspin, liveblogging this afternoon's Austria vs Croatia game.

We'd like this post to be a celebration of the work done by David Sifry and all our friends at Technorati, who recorded their billionth link tracked today. In 2002, David "Wanted to know when somebody said something about me," and eventually helped develop one of our favorite tools for searching the web in real time. Technorati helped change the conception of the web as the "world's biggest library" into something dynamic and relevant. 35,000 new bloggers signed up last month, at an average of one new blogger every three seconds. Unfortunately, some recent events overshadowed the festivities.