Well heck, you've already made it clear your mind is snapped shut on this and no further input will be permitted.
So I won't say that it's called the real time web and everyone including Google thinks it's a huge deal. Google will be rolling out Google Wave soon specifically because of the real time web, and Wave could well be a game-changer.
First of all who is this Rubel guy? But really, don't you think you have to
> do a bit more work (no, I am not going to read Steve Rubel, so please do not
> point me back to the link), than a passing reference to Facebook Connect
> (what is the number of sites using FB connect anyway?), to explain how a
> social network site coupled with an aggregator of other assorted endearing
> inanities, is going to index the web in a manner that threatens Google?
>