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Conversations in 140 Characters or Less are not Exactly Meaningful

Having a meaningful conversation in 140 characters or less seems at times a tad, let’s say, disjointed. It’s not exactly meaningful.

But it is this Twitter like approach that is defining how real-time technologies are deployed in the enterprise.

AskMyBrainTrust looks at the real-time enterprise through a different scope. Users are not limited to a set number of characters for expressing themselves. Instead, the service uses a real-time model to elicit meaningful conversations with your brain trust, that inner circle you go to for counsel and feedback.

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With most real-time services, the application provides better value when a critical mass of people participate. AskMyBrainTrust limits a group to seven people. Collaboration is limited only to the people in the group.

After the group is formed, a topic is submitted.

Idea are presented by members of the group. Each has its own threaded discussion.

Members of the brain trust vote on the ideas with the intention of driving the group to a consensus.

Real-time services with character limits make it challenging for meaningful communications across a tight group of confidants.

Email is even worse. Discussions scatter. Gathering ideas together to form a consensus almost has to be done on a one-on-one basis. Conference calls can sometimes feel endless without any form of agreement.

AskMyBrain represents the evolution of real-time technologies. Real-time services like Yammer and present.ly have their own fit for ongoing conversations with any number of people.

AskMyBrainTrust is not suited for these kinds of social conversations. More so, it is a service for when you need to collaborate among a small group of people to reach a collective agreement.

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Thoora Launches Real-Time News Aggregator

News aggregation startup Thoora is celebrating its public release just one day after ReadWriteWeb’s Real-Time Summit. In June, we wrote about the fact that CNN was hours behind Twitter in reporting news from Tehran. As real-time services continue to trump traditional media outlets, companies like Thoora have jumped on the chance to build a better news source. Since Thoora’s recent demo at TC50, reviewers are already questioning whether the company can survive in what is proving to be a crowded space.

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Based out of Toronto, Thoora indexes stories from across the web and categorizes them under 25 verticals including science, technology, video games, mobile, world politics and television. Similar to Techmeme, Thoora aggregates real-time news stories; however, in addition the company also provides an open analysis of real-time trackbacks.

Thoora aggregates interesting posts from a variety of different verticals in what resembles a Digg-like news dashboard. However, instead of displaying the number of in-community “diggs”, Thoora displays “reactions”. Reactions entail the number of news stories, blog posts, tweets and comments that can be linked to a particular story. Stories with the most reactions rise to the top of the list, whereas less popular stories remain lost in the news river ether.

ReadWriteWeb recently recognized Thoora on our top 100 real-time web companies. To check out the service, visit thoora.com.

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