I watched an interesting Webinar last Thursday put on by internet thought leaders Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle in advance of their Web 2.0 Summit coming up in October.

During the Webinar, the two discussed the content of their fantastic white paper, “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On,” a main focus of which was the rise of real-time data and how companies must begin to harness it to be competitive. (more…)