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Everyone is talking about the “real-time web”. That’s usually a pretty strong indication of a buzzword that will soon mean very little. Some would argue that it already doesn’t mean much. And yet, as Paul Graham’s web 2.0 article showed, it is possible to extract value even out of apparently meaningless buzzwords. “Real-tim (Read More)
Noupe
By Cameron ChapmanWe’re approaching the end of 2009, and many people are wondering what the future will bring. While no one can predict for sure what the Internet holds in its future, there are indicators and trends that can point us in the right direction.A ton of technologies are ripe for further development in the coming (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now a number of tools that allow non-developers the ability to create their own iPhone apps without knowing programming or scripting. Some are general-purpose (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Twitter Lists have rolled out to a majority of users on the site now and the uptake has been remarkable. Things will get truly interesting when lists can by turned into columns in 3rd party clients like Tweetdeck and Seesmic (one small client says it's shipped list support already and Tweetdeck says it's coming soon), when (Read More)
Mashable!
Ryan Deal is a social media and creative advertising lover who’s got an eye for good design and a passion that won’t quit. He runs the website TopCultured.com, which can also be found on Twitter.It’s nearly Halloween again and you know what that means: candy, costumes, and carving pumpkins. This year, social media has taken (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Social search was in the news this past week when Google and Bing announced that they would be getting access to the Twitter fire hose. A flurry of subsequent posts speculated on what this "social search" would entail, and some expressed concerns over privacy and spam.But social search is not something to be afraid of. It's (Read More)
TechCrunch
While most users may have not realized it, Twitter has had a rather annoying problem for some time now: If you deleted a tweet, it would still reside in Twitter Search’s index. This meant that if you said something you didn’t mean to, or made a mistake that you hoped to correct by deleting the tweet, it was still easily acc (Read More)
Official Google Blog
Today, we're launching two changes to Google Reader to help you discover more interesting content faster. Just as the launch of Personalized Search improved search results based on your search history, these changes use your Reader Trends to improve your reading experience.Explore section - We're always trying to help you d (Read More)
Mashable!
We’ve been taking an active analytical look at emerging Twitter related trends on a monthly basis. This month instead of analyzing the state of the Twittersphere on our own, we thought we’d give some of the web’s most experimental, influential, and knowledgeable thought leaders an opportunity to share their perspectives on (Read More)
Delicious/cohwill
First off, I +love+ the new list feature that's coming to Twitter. Last week more than 1,000 people were randomly added to a beta of the new feature. What does it do? It does a few things (TechCrunch wrote an article about the new feature and has screen shots which show what it looks like):It lets you put the people you ar (Read More)
Kevin's shared items in Google Reader
As you must have heard, Facebook Lite has been released in the US. Obviously, the blogosphere is buzzing with the news. The funniest part of the release is that it is so very far from complete. You really cannot modify any of your settings, and a bunch of other things. InsideFacebook has a really good overview of Lite, and (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
A little bit like a slide presentation app and a little bit like Whrrl, Storybird brings ease of use and a captivating interface to the sharing of words and pictures online.Using artwork from talented illustrators, Storybird allows users to create and display narratives of their own choosing. The site and its library of sto (Read More)
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All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud. There is curretnly only one RSS aggregator that supports RSSCloud, Dave Winer's brand new reader River2. That will probably change very soon (Read More)
The difference is, instead of the typical feed reader that checks for updates every few hours, this one checks for updates in real time. In other words, every few seconds.
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Google just received a design patent for Google Search's homepage. It took the US Patent Office over five years to approve this patent (D599,372) for the design of a "graphical user interface for a display screen of a communications terminal," but Google's request was finally approved yesterday. The company already owned a (Read More)