It’s been fascinating to walk around the Fox Theater this morning and see the level of excitement around “real-time” — even if much of it is “what does ‘real-time’ even mean?” and “there’s got to be a better name for this stuff!” Though, I was tickled by Ron Conway’s suggestion of “the Now Web,” since it’s ironic to me that KnowNow shut down just about a year ago…

• I heard a great anecdote about the genesis of Collecta. Before it was Stanziq, it was a bit of code at ChessPark. Now, at KnowNow we thought games might drive real-time messaging between Web browser users. But short of a shoot-em-up, we didn’t think of an app that needed subsecond fidelity. Even online poker can’t be broken by a one-second lag. You wouldn’t think chess would, either, but apparently there’s a model of the game known as Bullet where the entire shooting match takes… 60 seconds!

Now, with moves being played at more than one per second, lag becomes quite annoying to the players. They began down the path of developing a Web-based interface to the XMPP instant messaging protocol that’s now the core of the real-time user interface at Collecta.com.

• Curation is the necessary counterpart to streaming Facebook's Chris Cox said they're testing home pages that balance old-stlye News Feed summarization with new-style Stream delivery.
Formally, once you change the time basis you also have to change (or create) your measure of relevance to decide what to keep. KudoRank is one approach to part of that problem, namely, teaching your computer which relationships matter most to you.