Twingly, a blog search engine currently serving 25M+ searches per month, is joining the race of Real-Time Web. They have announced that on October 1st, they are going to launch something that will become "Next Great Platform" for social media. They called this project of theirs, Project Shinobi. (Find Shinobi meaning here)

This is what they mentioned about this new service...

On October 1st, 2009, Twingly will join the ranks of web services working together to improve your experience of social and traditional media. With Project Shinobi, we are aiming to provide a more social, more relevant and more realtime experience, integrating with the services you already use. Not only for people that are early adopters of social media, but accessible and immediately valuable for anyone.

Google has also recently announced that they are going to launch Microblogging Search Engine.

Project Shinobi announcement here