My first taste of real time information was from our current analytic tracking program Clicky, with their amazing Spy feature. With Spy I could see who was visiting my site in real time and see where they were going. Stalkerish? A little bit. Friggin cool? You bet.

Soon after realizing how awesome real time statistics were I started seeing Robert Scoble gush over the new and improved real-time Friendfeed. Vaguely intrigued, I decided to go ahead and check out this new real-time phenomena. I dusted off my old account and logged in, I was impressed. Real-time actually worked, something I was not accustomed to coming from Twitter.

As I used Friendfeed more I began to realize the power of real-time and how useful it actually was. There began my epic impatience. I was growing accustomed to constant bouts of data thrown at me and getting instantaneous satisfaction. I was starting to expect real-time from every service I used, email , Feedburner, and even IM.

Maybe I am being a little over-zealous about real-time, but I want to see it everywhere. I no longer want to wait, I want to get up and go. Friendfeed has been able to do this …

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