Man! I was just starting to get a grip on Web 2.0, when I think I ran smack into Web 2.5... or 3.0... or whatever the next gaming level is? Consider the following two sites, which take information to the next level of real time

www.glympse.com: Running late? Want people to know where you are or when you'll arrive, with continual updates? This smartphone app allows you to selectively let individuals track your GPS location for a specified period of time, giving them a Glympse into your personal whereabouts. I've not tried it yet (Droid in my future I believe :), but it looks like a tremendous combination of cellular, GPS, GIS and Internet technology.

REAL TIME POINT? It just became available for the iPhone a month ago! Now, I'm not a cutting-edge geek (not anymore, anyway) so how did I find it??

www.rankspeed.com: This site evidently continually scours the web for real-time information posts about any subject, from blogs to even Twitter posts, and then ranks them by any criteria you choose (from their site):

Users can search for any website category using tags and rank by any criteria: good, useful, easy, secure, etc. For each result a statistical analysis computes the percentage of twitterers / bloggers who have said it is good, easy, ...

REAL TIME POINT?  This service just launched in September, two months ago!!!