With the success of Zynga and other social gaming companies, online gaming has become a hot trend. WordSquared is a massively parallel online multiplayer crossword, while BrowserQuest is an attempt (by Mozilla) at building an in-browser real-time role-playing game. One of the more popular and publicized games built on socket.io is Rawkets. There are many open source game engines built over canvas and around real-time communication systems.

Twitter is the best example of getting real-time data (the tweets) to the browser without user action. Google+ and Facebook have it too. The important thing on social networks is, being updated about happenings in real time.

CRMs are some of the most important components in business acquisitions. The days of issue tracking systems being sold as CRMs are over. CRMs are continuously improving and re-inventing themselves. Most of the CRMs are adding social capabilities; they are adding more functionality everyday. Salesforce, one of the most popular hosted CRM solutions, introduced Chatter. Chatter adds social capabilities to CRM and brings in a lot of advantages powered by realtime updates. It allows the customers to add comments or post updates on issues, which appear in real time to the support associates on their system. BPM solutions are also integrating real-time components to keep a track on process status and updates.

The latest updates to Google Analytics include a functionality to see the real-time updates of users visiting your website. Splunk—an event-tracking system, which is widely used to monitor events on infrastructure and machine data—allows you monitor and track event updates on the charts, updated in real time.