Last night, the Silicon Valley Software Development Forum (SDForum) Search SIG held a panel discussion on “Real-time Search” with Gerry Campbell is CEO of the soon-to-be-launched Collecta; Vik Singh, the creator and architect of Yahoo! BOSS; Akhil Wable, engineering search lead at Facebook; and Salim Ismail on behalf of Ångströ, all moderated by Robert Scoble and broadcast live on FriendFeed.

Robert moderated a great discussion that covered a lot of territory. I started off with an insight that we used heavily at PubSub, which is that Real-time search is an oxymoron. Once you take the time to store it, index it and re-present it, it's simply not Real-Time anymore. I've heard the buzzword “Right-time Search” used, which isn’t bad. The key point here is that once you’ve stored information and are “Pulling” it, the real-time aspect is lost. For true Real-Time, we need to utilize a “Push” (or publish/subscribe) approach. More »

Looking back on TechCrunch50 a week later, it was an amazing event -- we're still working our way through all of the new opportunities it helped create for us! It confirmed our key reason for applying to TechCrunch50 in the first place: our customers were in their audience. "Working the booth" to talk to the attendees one-on- one was incredibly informative because we got frank and immediate feedback from potential beta testers and even a few investors. More »

Well, after over a year of stealth development, Ångströ finally launched. The TechCrunch50 panel questions were great and despite some tough wifi issues we managed a good presentation. People are saying we did a pretty good job!

Rohit did an awesome presentation and I drove the tech demo/presentation. We got excellent feedback. The panel got that we have unique technology, that's it's defensible, and that the big question was about our business model.

We think that's quite simple: if we can deliver news that matters about your professional network, that will be useful to every single business professional. The business model will follow from that...