Real-time search—it’s all the rage and it’s what’s happening NOW! And this Friday’s TechCrunch Real-Time Stream CrunchUp is the epicenter of what’s happening in this dynamic space.

What exactly is real-time search, you ask? It’s the ability to see what’s happening across every channel of the world-wide web now. Be it tweets, Facebook status updates, blog posts, articles, comments and more, real-time search captures the most up-to-the-minute content—and it’s transforming the traditional Web.

Search for Kobe Bryant in a real-time search engine like Twitter and you’ll see what people are tweeting about the NBA star at that very moment, instead of seeing results from archived Wikipedia pages and LA Times articles from years past.

But the buck doesn’t stop with Twitter when it comes to real-time search. There are countless platforms popping up in the valley and beyond and TechCrunch is bringing them all together in one place at their first-ever Real-Time Stream CrunchUp. And Tinker will be there!

We’re pumped to be a sponsor at this event and can’t wait to demo Tinker to the best of the best in the Valley. In addition to showing off Tinker’s real-time capabilities, we’ll also be providing TechCrunch with a live feed that will showcase all CrunchUp-related tweets. But as any diehard conference attendee knows, conference tweets can be overwhelming, repetitive and confusing—but with Tinker’s live conversation moderation tool Tech Crunch will have the ability to curate and select only the best tweets to appear on the feed.

Our Tinker widget, fresh off another round of added features, will also be embedded on the TechCrunch-dedicated CrunchUp page. The new-and-improved widget will include three tabs—All, Highlights, Speakers—where people will be able to see either all tweets, those highlighted by TechCrunch or just those tweeted by conference speakers. A Ustream-powered live video of the event will be streaming alongside the Tinker widget, allowing both remote participation and a more customized conference experience.

Needless to say, we’re super excited about being a part of this event and can’t wait to both share and learn from the best and the brightest in the state of “now.” For more on the event, check out the official TechCrunch agenda or follow the event on Tinker.