I think I first heard Charlene Li say it at last year’s SXSWi in Austin:  Web search will continue to move toward real time. Today, Google made it a reality with the announcement of Real Time Search.

Just one of the many tectonic shifts continuing to happen in communications.  Everything is integrated and the  Google fellows give more detail on their blog than I can ever hope to explain here.

Real time search:  it’s exciting.  It’s cool.  It’s amazing.  But I do have 2 gnawing questions:

This is an excerpt from a guest post on B2B Bloggers.com.  To read entire post, click here.

This is Richard St. John presenting at TED.

We’ve all heard this before, there’s nothing new here but sometimes it’s good to hear it again.

This works on so many levels mostly because St. John is nothing but authentic and honest about himself.  What’s brilliant is the sucinct, simple pitch and the fact that it’s less than 4 minutes.  All pitches should be this good.

Jennifer Michelsen is the C0-Founder of Gunnar Optiks ,who make killer digital glasses for those of us who stare at screens all day. The other day on Twitter we were having trouble talking in 140 characters, which got me to thinking. Here’s a bit of that conversation and what that chat inspired.

@gunnaroptiks1:     i can’t think in 140 or less characters…LOL

@david_wiggs:     140 is tough! Forces brevity for sure. Not always good but mostly it is. Wouldn’t life be funny if all interaction=140!?

@gunnaroptiks1:     haha – would be very interesting. imagine your voice just shuts off at 140. you’d carry a small digital counter everywhere…too funny!

Lightbulb! I thought, what would the world be like if we only had 140 characters at a time?  Well, being married to a copywriter, it wasn’t too hard to imagine!

So Jeniffer, thanks for the inspiration and Teresa for polishing a rough idea!