Hot off the heels of our Real-time web initiative announcement at LeWeb, we're already seeing our first implementations in the wild! Collecta, a real-time search engine, is one of the first to use of our Real-Time Stream API in production.

Today Collecta launched a dedicated real-time MySpace search that offers the first true real-time view for users into our community’s public mood, activities, status, and more.

Collecta gives users a summary of what's going on in the world right now on any topic, as it happens.  With Collecta's dedicated search of MySpace (available at myspace.collecta.com), you can get that same instantaneous, rich view into the mood, photos, videos, blog posts and status updates from MySpace users. The Collecta-powered search pushes out content the moment it has been published and lets users filter their result streams based on content type (videos, photos, blog comments, articles, updates, etc).

Collecta is using the MySpace Real-Time Stream API to power this search for users. With this API, Collecta is getting the full public MySpace stream pushed to their site with additional controls and metadata. If you’re interested in enabling this functionality on your site, see the documentation for more information: Real-Time Stream Functional Overview.

We’re hoping to see even more uses of this API in coming months, especially since we’re giving away $10,000 for the Most Innovative Use of our Real-Time Stream API in the MySpace Developer Challenge.

Working on a project that uses our Real-Time Stream? Send us a note, we'd love to check it out.

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