Friendfeed implemented the new feature tonight. Users can choose to view most of their FriendFeed pages in real time, including topical based pages.

Robert Scoble says: "This is wild. It’s like the web has been turned into a chat room", and I agree.

Push technology, or server push, describes a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction originates with the publisher or central server....

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Plurk - another microblogging service, where the response timeline is displayed in a horizontal river interface - is a site which is mostly like Twitter but employs a much different view of status updates and offers multidirectional communication between plukers.

On Plurk the responses are all grouped together - not only for you to see but for your followers to see also.

Plurk is an easy way to chronicle and share the things you do, the way you feel, and all the other things in between that make up your life, with the people close to you.

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Four software designers who were instrumental in the creation of Google’s popular e-mail and mapping services have founded a new company with the intent of making it easy for people to find out what Web material their friends are enjoying.

The company, FriendFeed, is the brainchild of Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, two of the programmers who built Google Maps.

FriendFeed users can see what their friends are reading, listening to or viewing on the Web as a continuous stream of notifications. This stream can appear on a personal Web page or in a module on the user’s customized page on Facebook or Google....

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