Maybe it's just me, but I find the simultaneous popularity of "only check your email 4 times a day" and "OMG ALL WEB APPZ MUST BE REALTIME" slightly peculiar.
To tell you the truth, I don't normaly use real time web apps at all. But I have an urge into turning what I write into real time apps, and no good explanation why, it just feels that they become much easier to use.
Maybe I (and everybody else) only have the wrong impression. It happens, and I don't have enough data to conclude anything.
