In July I mentioned that Twitter bought Summize, a search engine that indexes tweets, and redirected the site to http://search.twitter.com. Now finally, almost 8 months later, Twitter Search is fully integrated into the Twitter top nav. A search box is now globally accessible and the top 10 trending topics are displayed in a dropdown. In [Keep Reading…]
Twitter buys Summize
Twitter’s search engine has always pretty much sucked. The functionality was put on the site in August 2007, but it only searches username, location, bio and URL — not the actual tweets in the stream. Lots of folks out there have used the Twitter API to build their own search engine, the most popular of [Keep Reading…]
Social Feed Aggregators
There are hundreds, probably thousands, of powerful social networking platforms out there, with new ones launching every week. Send 140-character messages with Twitter. Save links with del.icio.us. Promote content with Digg. Share music with Last.fm. It’s endless. Lifestreaming — recording your daily activities through text, links, photos, music and video — is quickly becoming the [Keep Reading…]
Quotably
Whether you view your friends’ tweets on Twitter.com or through one of the many desktop clients (Twhirl, Snitter, Twitterific), they’re always listed in backwards chronological order — latest tweet in the Friend Timeline at the top. A few websites out there use the API to display the tweets in different orders and configurations. Ones that [Keep Reading…]
Links from 3/2/2008 to 3/5/2008
Facebook Hires Google Executive as No. 2 – New York Times iPhonic: Steve Wozniak has another pop at the iPhone Will Tomorrow’s World Still Need Designers? / frogblog / frog design 35 Ways to Stream Your Life – ReadWriteWeb Data is the New Links Tim Berners-Lee Says Sites That Don?t Give Users Their Data Back [Keep Reading…]
Twitter Blocks
When we live in a virtual world, who are our neighbors? And our neighbors’ neighbors? The amazing fact of the Internet is that we’re capable of living in thousands of places simultaneously. But how do all of those places connect? When it comes to Twitter, it’s easy enough to see who you’re following. But do [Keep Reading…]
My Twitter Karma
Have you measured your Twitter Karma? I found out about Twitter Karma from a blog post titled “Top 10 Twitter Hacks” from Strategic Public Relations. It’s a Twitter mashup that combines all of the people you’re following with all of the people following you, allowing you to see which relationships are mutual and which aren’t. [Keep Reading…]
links for 2008-02-24
Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed Facebook plans to allow users to add activities from FriendFeed directly into their Facebook news feed. (tags: community facebook friendfeed lifestream socialnetworking) Commuter Feed Commuter Feed is a Twitter mashup that aggregates traffic reports. Users tweet traffic updates to a Twitter robot along with an airport code [Keep Reading…]
Twitter100
Much better implementation than Gridgit, but still not particularly useful. My Twitter100 It’s impossible to follow conversations, only the latest tweet per person is displayed (up to 100) and worst of all — sovereign posture. Who wants to devote their entire screen to watch Twitter updates come in? Um, no one! That’s why people invented [Keep Reading…]
Another Twitter Link Roundup
Tweet what you eat Maintain a food diary by sending direct messages on Twitter to TWYE. Assign calories to each food item or search the database to find them out. Twitter Timer Let Twitter be your alarm for things you need to remember. But keep in mind that Twitter or your carrier can always have [Keep Reading…]