The document discusses how people are increasingly sharing information in real-time through technologies like social media and live-streaming. This is creating more data that needs to be dealt with. Real-time search aims to help integrate this increasing information overload by focusing on timeliness and providing an understanding of trending topics and interests through a real-time lens.

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“live-streams” what they do, buy, think, and watch
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How are we dealing with it?

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11. What is so different about
real-time search v. normal search?
o Relevancy is important, but timeliness
is the essential part.
o It is getting an idea of what people are
talking about or interested in now.
o The potential is to combine:
- on-the-spot peer reviews
- recommendations
- discovery
- offers and time sensitive calls to action
- social media connections/referrals
- instant information updates.
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o 3.6 data to know how monetizable it is.”
Marissa Mayer, Google

12. And people are exploring new(ish) tools
Mentionmap maps the topics
of conversation heating up in
your social graph.

13. With new ways of converting
noise to knowledge.
Ellendale uses Freebase and
other information sources to
create a “semantic analysis of
the real-time web.”

14. Practical approaches to search
and other real-time trends...
Temporal cues in your search query
determine the relevance of time and
change the priority of your results
e.g. If you search for “snow conditions at your
favorite ski resort, you’ll find updates from other
users who are there and sharing the latest and
greatest information.”
Real-time online collaboration
o A Business benefit of the real-time trend.
o Part of the shift from batch analytics
and waterfall processes, to real-time
analytics and agile processes.
o Using Google Wave and add-ons
like SAP’s Gravity.
o Enable groups of people to
collaborate on projects without the
cost or infrastructure investment
of a Sharepoint-type solution.
Sources: Top 15 Technology trends for Enterprise Architects to watch, Forrester; Google

15. Real-time o Visible staff involvement in problem resolution.
o Reacting and responding to questions and
customer issues quickly and transparently, #twelpforce:
13,000 queries in the first two months.
service o Engaging in real human conversations.

16. Real-time dialogue
campaigns

17. Aggregating opinion
& newsworthy content
to improve coverage of
real time events.

20. Brands stimulating and
aggregating streams of
relevant conversations
and associated content.
Platforms for entering
and harnessing the
dialogue that is
already happening.
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21. Time sensitive offers
designed for life-streams
o Integrated into real-time experience with a sense of NOW.
o Urgency because traditional marketing campaigns
(like TV progs) now can be filtered and time shifted
(and even forgotten as our content collection piles up).
NB: Facebook have changed the rules...again.

22. “The next phase of media, I’ve been
thinking, will be after the page and
after the site. Media can’t expect us
to go to it all the time. Media has to
come to us. Media must insinuate
itself into our streams.”
Jeff Jarvis

23. Real-time
eCommerce
o As retailers move closer to real-time
inventory management, it increases
the possibility of more widespread
dynamic demand led pricing.
o Consumers can be alerted about
price changes as they happen.
o They can even group together to
negotiate bulk discounts.

24. What does it means
for the site owners?
More time on site
but fewer page views.
Decreased server costs with
fewer page refreshes and DB
calls as sites move from
polling to real-time push.
Advertising analytics nightmare.
8 hours = 1 pageview but 100’s
of opportunities to see an ad?
How can you tell which story in
the stream was read and which
was missed?
Source: Ted Roden New York Times

25. The e-commerce opportunity?
Real-time
insight.
“a clothing retailer could identify a spike in positive chat about a
celebrity that is wearing one of their apparel items, and could immediately
feature that piece of clothing on their homepage and launch campaigns
to a targeted audience interested in that celebrity and lifestyle. This allows
the retailer to immediately maximize the new revenue opportunity, and
deliver more engaging, relevant content to its customer base.”

26. WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF US?
PubSubHubbub (PuSH)
real-time syndication protocol.
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Subscriber
FASTER, COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT
AND A WAY FOR SMALL PUBLISHERS TO
GET INTO GOOGLE RESULTS IN REAL-TIME.

28. If you tap into a “live-stream” of first or
second hand experiences and thoughts,
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29. Source: Richard MacManus, RRW
Content is rapidly pushed down the stream by
4,000 articles/videos a day.
“Low quality”, high search visibility “farmed” content.

30. Lots of people, saying lots of different
things, all expecting a response, now.
They’re waiting. How do you deal with
expectation culture?

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36. Mobile Internet Outpaces Desktop Internet Adoption
Source: Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley, “Economy + Internet Trends”, October 2009; Neilsen Global Mobile – Strategies for Growth
iPhone + iTouch Users = 8x AOL Users 8 Quarters After Launch
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187% increase in 18.3 million 65 million people
mobile social network unique mobile social use Facebook on a
audience for YTD July ‘09. network users. mobile device.

37. Affordable contracts Higher speed, new technology
Removed cost uncertainty Location Based Services
FLAT RATE BETTER
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Better choice
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of Apps store & Market
BETTER
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38. “The majority of the real-time search boom will be
in its convergence with another rapidly growing
industry, mobile computing.
[Offering people] real-time recommendations
based on your current location using an
application that aggregates information from
real-time searches as well as social sites like
Yelp and Urban Spoon...... local advertisements
and “limited time” discounts on your mobile.”*
Social Periphery
*Rob Diana

39. Social Periphery &
Mobile Social Networks
Local networks of Global Services
Mobile & mixed media
sensors and devices and Communities
applications/tools
Content &
Context & relationships
Location as filter as intelligence
GPS, location Social Communities
RFID & & bespoke networks & forums
NearField sensors
Blogs, UGC
Barcodes, QR codes
& niche sites
and markers
Dynamic communication
based on action and relevance
(Ambient awareness/Social Peripheral Vision)
Brands as the filter
Physical objects On is off/Off is on
and the enabler.
in intelligent as physical and
Ideas must be “good
environments digital worlds fuse
enough to share”
Helping us plan for now and what’s next.
by David J. Carr davidjcarr.wordpress.com
Based on Nokia’s Mobile Gateway & Jyri Engestrom

40. From palm of your hand social
feed integration as standard,
to 24hr location-based
content streams and
documentaries (The Grid),

41. to third-wave mobile
applications and
hardware extensions
to monitor anything
from our finances to
our health and fitness.

42. And even extending to
e-readers and iTablets
iSlates iPads.

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44. What services and content can we deliver at the
content/context cross-section?
Chain-wide localized,
product-specific and cost
effective marketing for
stores, when the inventory
in more than 70 Adidas
Outlet Stores vary from
store to store. And so do
the special offers.

45. Coupon sites have been the second-most-visited
Source: Business Week, HitWise, Quidco/YouGov, BIGresearch and Resource Interactive, August 2009
category on the Internet, behind job sites, for a year.
eMarketer May, 2009
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46. Enable our commercial
relationships in the context
of their real relationships.

47. Even playful location-based social periphery tools.

49. Augmented reality
moving beyond
marketing gimmick.

50. a digression
What do these tools mean
for our relationships?

51. a digression
Can we challenge 150?

52. a digression
Pre-digital society: Closer, less diverse discussion networks, more geographically clustered?
>150 <150 (Dunbar’s number) >150
Number of Relationships
Geographical proximity Geographical proximity
Digitally-enabled society: More diverse discussion networks, more geographically spread?
>150 <150 (Dunbar’s number) >150
Sources: Pew Internet And American Life Project,
Number of Relationships
Geographical proximity Geographical proximity

53. a digression

54. Mobile & (REAL)time
More timely information
More connections
More opportunities to meet
up in the real world
More live experience

55. #1
(REAL)time
now. & live.

56. digital experiences we
participate in and use,
experiences that break
out into the real world.
What’s helping this happen?

57. On is off/Off is on.
mobile phones to cars and tube
From
tickets, in a world of cheap, fast & always on
Wi-Fi, an unconnected device is unusual.
More live interfaces with the
real world.

58. “A year from now basically every
new phone that’s sold will have
[Near Field Communication].
It’s a two-way, bio-directional RFID
communication link that makes this
device work as a tag or as a reader.”
Sony Ericsson’s VP of systems architecture,
Håkan Djuphammar

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61. These sensors, technologies and devices are
helping brands move from messaging to
digitally-enabled, increasingly
live, real-world experiences.

62. The shift to digital experiences enables
more shared “watercooler” moments...

63. ...access to “exclusive” live events...

64. ...and even the feeling
of live and unfiltered
brand engagement or
consumer control.

65. What influences do digital
experiences have on consumers?
65.3% report a
digital experience changing
their perception of a brand
97.1% report that
the digital experience
has influenced purchase
24% have produced
digital content in order to
enter a contest
Source: Razorfish Feed

66. = Engagement
Engagement = Quantity or Time
Engagement = Depth & Quality

67. a digression
even
extends to changing marketing from pure comms to creating
useful, useable & delightful services/products

68. a digression
...or enabling live,
real-time responsive
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digital retail pos
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(REAL)time
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Real relationships and Real, live experiences
relevant information and engagement
at the speed of now. beyond advertising.

70. What could
mean for
our clients?

71. o Audiences are mobile – we need to widen digital touch
points and become the enabler & filter for people,
- Help them now and help them plan for what they are doing next.
o To do this will require moving beyond a website-centric
model to a distributed platform.
- Enable customers to engage in the channel they prefer/have available and track
them through fragmented journeys with a single identity
- Serve only what’s relevant in current need state and location
o Customer feedback will be dynamic and real time – the
crowd will express what it wants through its behaviour as
well as communicating preferences and views.
- An ‘open source’ approach should be considered, tailoring our
propositions (function and content) to needs and feedback in real time
o Social CRM combining social listening tools with CRM
systems tied back to company data to track influencer
financial value and help us respond to their needs faster.

72. o Customers will automatically connect with people they have
something in common with, experiences are logged and
shared automatically, so we’ll need to only serve up relevant
content for people to make better decisions.
- Personalise and aggregate their offers and promotions as part of shopping
experience, make it easier for them to share a good deal and not to miss out
- Deal expiry alerts in their streams, use networks to share trackable offer codes
o If everything is connected then there are increased
engagement opportunities: but we need to design accordingly
and appropriately.
o Can we extend communications to packaging/POS giving
them a layer of digital information or utility?
o The increase in digital noise for people will mean that our
brand will have a key role to carry the relationship.
- Hard to compete for share of attention
- Human reaction to mask out noise
- We need to help them by making sure all interactions and communications
have the value exchange firmly in their favour

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calls to the call-centre.”
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later the SERP
results for
“Vodafone &
Twitter” are
dominated by
the news story,
not product
information.
Things happen in
real-time but can
stick around for a
long time.

76. Practice true customer-centric behaviour,
integrated into all business processes, not
a silo or a channel, horizontal not vertical...
8 Signs of Customer-centric Behaviour
• You send customers to • Your customers are doing things
other websites. with your product you never
dreamed and are posting videos.
• You measure how many people
refer their friends to you as • Active influencers are adding you as
success (Net Promoter Score). friends on social networks.
• When budgets get tightened, • You work with your competitors
you tighten operational costs. towards better customer
experiences for all.
• Your only customer service
policy is to do right by • You know you compete for your
the customer. customers’ attention with everyone.
Source: Tara Hunt

77. ...and throughout the entire
consumer decision-making process.
Increase in number of brands/solutions
being considered. Attention paid to
advertising, WOM & online research
with information gathering key
Start with a shortlist
of brands/solutions
Active & Passive Loyalty
Active Loyalty fuels advocacy but
Passive is a larger audience
On-going
exposure
Closure & the
moment of
decision
Consumer builds expectations based on
experience to inform their next decision journey
Source: McKinsey

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of organisations
ban social network
access at work.

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Trust in “sources of information about a company”
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Source: Edelman Trust Barometer