Creating real-time conversations

A system comprising:

• one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a topic for a real-time conversation from the user;
• receiving location information related to a location of the user;
• creating a real-time conversation object that includes the received topic;
• tagging the created real-time conversation object with the received location information;
• indexing, based on the received topic and the received location information, the tagged real-time conversation object with respect to other real-time conversation objects;
• and
• providing the tagged real-time conversation object in response to a search for real-time conversation objects received from another user.

A nonvolatile computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a topic for a real-time conversation from the user;
• receiving location information related to a location of the user;
• creating a real-time conversation object that includes the received topic;
• tagging the created real-time conversation object with the received location information;
• indexing, based on the received topic and the received location information, the tagged real-time conversation object with respect to other real-time conversation objects;
• and
• providing the tagged real-time conversation object in response to a search for real-time conversation objects received from another user.