The real time favit allows you to see articles the second they are posted and to participate in discussions as they happen. Your friend’s comments are now popping one after the other – interesting discussions evolve in front of you.

If you want you can stop the stream from the   button on the top menu. To get the new stuff you will have to refresh your browser window though. You can return to the show anytime by pressing the button. Enjoy!

The favit real-time engine is the next step after adopting the PubSubHubBub to making favit entirely real-time and keeping its leading role in the Real Time Web.

music by DoKashiteru

Fasten seat belts and enjoy

Quote:
“… I want a curation engine, not another lame aggregator. We’ve had enough of those. SocialThing. Jaiku. FriendFeed, etc.”

Definition of “curation”
1. The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts;
2. describes a range of activities and processes done to create, manage, maintain, and validate a component

Well, its coming any time soon…
code name #fluffy

Enjoy!

The Internet has undertaken, more or less, the same role throughout all these years: building bridges between people and data.

In the beginning, there was the RIFT: the people stood on this shore, and the data was on the far side. Few , God blessed , had the tools to reach and work with the digital data. So, bridges were needed…

The “salvation” came in the 1990s, when several significant changes took place on a global scale; first the PC penetration jumped exponentially and the second major thing was the availability of a permanent connection between these PCs through the World Wide Web. At the same time, the popularity of interconnections became stronger, laying the ground for intermediaries to jump in. A new era started, shortly followed by a war among the most important web services (Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft), basically a war of the middlemen – the battle was and still is about “Who is going to control the Bridge”.

SEARCH

In the late 1990s – early 00s, the search engines successfully served the purpose of giving the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the data. The data itself was static and, for that period of time, things were working well on both sides – the user could have a proper way of looking towards the opposite shore and spot what’s needed.

As everything had gotten more and more dynamic though, the old algorithms of the search engines started to look obsolete when compared to the increasing energy of the Internet – the blogging platform steps in and pulls up the speed of data alteration. As a response to the increasing dynamics of the web, Technorati and other niche blog search platforms emerged.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

Around 2004, we witnessed another radical step – the first attempt of placing humans as bridges between data and end users – the beginning of the social web. It all worked according to one very powerful principle called the “collective wisdom”. It says that if many people judge something as good, it must be good in deed. And so users submitted content to one place in the web and other people rated it, determining what’s worth and whats not. So, the average mass user got to read the popular stuff.

The catch was that very shortly after, the social bookmarking platforms like digg, reddit etc have got under the control of several content lobbies. As a result, the content creators benefited, opposite to the conent consumers, who were overwhelmed by the amount of “highly rated information” which was actually irrelevant to their interests. Cause they had no control about what they get.

RSS

The Really Simple Syndication emerged as a light in the tunnel of the already overloaded information society. For first time you could actually appoint the sources to obtain content from. Unfortunately, the light quickly proved to be coming from the approaching locomotion. A gigantic portion of content is relentlessly dumping on us through our RSS-ed feeds. Probably, no more thаn 10% of the users can handle this situation effectively. Just take a look at the “unread” items in your Google Reader to get our drift.

All these patterns of obtaining information had one thing in common: a substantial human effort, time, energy and quite often specific knowledge, which were required for obtaining the interesting content on a daily basis.

Despite all the technologies, interconnecting people with data in a variety of ways, the rift has never been larger. It is because the user needs just what its interesting for him/her. On a daily basis. Presented comprehensively. Obviously a new bridge is needed…

What is favit ? from favit on Vimeo.

The first-hand experience is very promising. A post on blogger.com shows up on favit 3 seconds after being originally published.

Guess where favit is heading to…?

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Have you ever wished to:

• efficiently manage your twitter stream
• view and organize your Twitter friends
• see the shared videos and pics in the stream
• comment on twits
• delete annoying tweets
• instantly share to Twitter from outside sources
• share Twits to friends and interest groups outside Twitter

Now, with Twitter integrated in favit you can do that and much more! All you need is just to log on to favit.com with your Twitter account – it’s free and easy!

LISTS

Group your friends into topical LISTS. As a result you will have a Twitter content stream that is fun, well organized and easy to follow. You can create as many LISTS as you wish.

IN-LINE VIDEOS AND PICS

favit will visualize everything that is inside the tweet – video, picture, open the short URL’s for you, so you know to which site you are led to.

RETWEET AND MUCH MORE

With just one click you can re-tweet, but also share it with your groups and friends, as well as with people – on their e-mails.

HIDE

Now you can hide any tweets that you don’t like or are distracting you. It’s the way to ensure more effective and comfortable reading!

Log on to favit with your twitter account, and discover a whole new twitter experience!

]]> http://blog.favit.com/en/twitter-is-in-favit/feed 2 http://blog.favit.com/en/favit-hit-barcelona http://blog.favit.com/en/favit-hit-barcelona#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:26:55 +0000 admin http://blog.favit.com/en/?p=36 We were at the HIT in Barcelona last week. During the three days, the event gathered gurus, investors and entrepreneurs to learn the latest trends in (presumably) IT innovation and its role as the way out of the global economic crisis.

As part of the event, the Global Entrepreneurship Competition was held, gathering 28 projects from 21 countries. People think more into the nano and genetic technologies direction. Still, we gave our votes (you have 2 000 000 eurohits that you decide where to invest)  for a web project. And it actually has won

The winners of the 90,000 EUR awards are:

* Bmat, Spain (1st) our choice – a search engine for music.
* The Broccoli Project, South Africa (2nd) social network awarding people, who do public work
* Polyskin, India (3rd) – easy to create artificial skin curing quickly burnings wounds.
* Echopixel Techonologies, Mexico (Best Presentation) on-field body scan analysis
* The Broccoli Project (Best Social Value).

It was cool to mingle amongst some young people from the industry of global IT innovation. We saw the direction, we have heard some nice pitches, we enjoyed it very much. And we ensured ourselves one more time, favit is in the very center of what is about to come…