NASDAQ goes real-time
Monday, June 02, 2008 by Dave Winer.
As if on command, this press release dropped this morning. 
We're getting real-time stock quotes.
Great. Now think about it -- how much like Twitter is that?
I wrote about this yesterday. If NASDAQ and other rich companies like Google, CNBC, etc are willing to take the risk on their technology it must be pretty reliable? Otherwise, imagine the lawsuits that would ensue.
As I wrote yesterday, I bet you can license the technology to run Twitter much more cheaply than you can to build it yourself.
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