One of the surprising things that I learned pretty quickly (as an IT professional I should know this and should have checked it beforehand) is that the Facebook login session is unencrypted, which means that any five year old can hack into a Facebook account by sniffing passwords on the network. Encrypting login sessions is such a basic security measure that it's scandalous that the default login page for Facebook does not use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
What does "real-time web" actually means? Basically, getting all the informations you're looking for at the very moment they're are produced, from your sources of choice.
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