These strategies are working for now, but the realtime Internet is starting to sneak in.

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The lag of traditional punishment and reward systems reduces their effectiveness, but the realtime quality of ClassDojo helps to mold behavior more quickly.

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But faster than realtime goes beyond Loic Le Meur's body.

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But I sense that my addiction to the realtime stream is only making room for the consumption of a faster stream.

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Sure, there's Dish Anywhere, for realtime streaming of live TV and DVR content, but Hopper with Sling owners will soon be able to take their content offline, for viewing on trains, planes and anywhere else where you don't have a connection (or don't want to burst your monthly bandwidth cap with hours of video).

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The camera held its own -- nothing too special here, obviously, but we appreciated the refresh rate on the viewfinder (almost seemed realtime) and the fact that the LED flash could be set to remain on continuously.

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But trying to make lemonade out of battered and bruised lemons, Realtime is unloading the game to Gamersfirst, part of K2 Networks, which plans to relaunch the game as a free-to-play MMO in early 2011.

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He may not have gone to my high school and we may not have been direct friends, but through our extended network of connections, I would forever maintain a realtime awareness of where he was, what he looked like and which Farmville animals he had most recently strangled.

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Color, the name for which the company (unbelievably) holds the trademark of, started as a proximity-based photo sharing app and in its final incarnation is a Facebook enabled realtime video and photo sharing app available on iOS and Android, but only through Verizon.

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