Creating and discovering real-time conversations

Atty Docket No. 16113-3164WU1 Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for discovering conversations related to 5 a location. One method includes receiving, at a server, location information related to a location of a user and determining a plurality of real-time conversation objects that are associated with locations within an area related to the received location of the computing device. The location associated with each of the plurality of real-time conversation objects indicates a location of a 10 user at the time the user requested creation of the real-time conversation object. The method also includes sending, to a computing device of the user, information representing the determined real-time conversation objects.