Jean-Marc Liotier

"Technically, publish/subscribe is in many ways superior to polling. That in itself is a good enough reason to seriously consider the technologies over which the marketing label “real-time web” has been pasted. Not everything is asynchronous. Collaborative writing and chat for example require a real-time infrastructure. And Google Wave shows that a whole new class of real-time collaborative applications will soon be unleashed upon users – a bunch of medical specialists contributing to a diagnostic process, or a bunch of IT engineers poring over an obscure bug on a production system are both examples where real-time collaboration is the difference between sharing contributions back-and-forth and actually engaging in a conversation. Real-time on the social web is not chiefly about time critical information – it is much more closely related to people swarming over a subject. In the traditional western office, people exchange memos – but when a problem occurs they gather where they find..." - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Add Ping.fm, Friendfeed and a few other lifestream aggragators to the mix and it gets even more fun !" - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Actually, any social networking site could probably be re-implemented as a Google Wave node ! I wonder who will take advantage of that. But now that you mention FriendFeed specifically, it does seem to be a natural fit." - Jean-Marc Liotier

"I had not yet noticed the “fave 5″ buried deep down on the bottom of the services list – so thanks for mentioning that configuration item. I wanted to have my identi.ca microblogging entries in Frienfeed, but since I import my Friendfeed into Facebook and crosspost from Ping.fm to both Facebook and Identi.ca, this would result in Facebook displaying duplicate entries. I raised the issue with Friendfeed staff, suggesting better duplicates handling. I obtained an answer offering some hope of soon being possible to display on the profile services that are not included in the feed. So maybe I’ll some day have Identi.ca among my “fave 5″ after all…" - Jean-Marc Liotier

"You are right that even considering their flaws, pageviews still retain some usefulness as indicators. I believe that the same applies to subscriber counts, but with an even bigger grain of salt considering the amount of automated aggregation and filtering involved in stream consumption." - Jean-Marc Liotier