Online website Digg, sends news information that is termined by its users, with the new trend for "real-time" news to be send continiously the site aims to join forces with Twitter.com for future expansion and more information to be available.
“We have to look at all the different sources of information and kind of just act as Switzerland. If we’re seeing a trend on Twitter we can map that to the best stories on Digg. And if there’s other things happening on Facebook and other networks, we want to be able to pull that in.” - (Rose, 2009)
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Real-time searching is set to be a huge trend for 2010 and with sites such as Twitter and Google already embracing it, it is also important for my own project, as well as other brands of course, to keep this trend as a main focus in order to keep socially and technologically up to date.