Tag: twitter
MySpace returns
by flotruglio on mar.11, 2010, under are you curious?
Long ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users’ posts to the othersocial networking sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.
Those changes, among others, were unveiled by co-presidents Jason Hirschhorn, 38, and Mike Jones, 34, this week following the abrupt departure of CEO Owen Van Natta in February after just 10 months on the job.
read the full story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100310….
Google ready to launch a Microblogging Search Engine
by flotruglio on mar.07, 2010, under Developers
Google prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter. Since it’s very easy to post updates and the posts are usually very short, micro-blogging services are great for live blogging, posting real-time information about an event.
Twitter’s search engine has two important drawbacks: it’s limited to Twitter and it sorts the results by date. While there are other search engines like Tweefind that try to sort Twitter posts by relevancy and search engines like Twingly that index multiple microblogging sites, none of them does a great job. (continue reading…)
