1 day ago

louisgray-com Regardless of where you sit in the RSS vs. Twitter debate for information discovery, you know the power of finding out when people are discussing topics of your interest, wherever they do so - be it on blogs, blog comments, social networks or anywhere else. With the advent of new Twitter lists, smart folks are manually cura (Read More)

4 days ago

SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog Posted by Danny DoverWarning: This post has very little to do with SEO. It will apply to you and your work but not in the way that you are familiar with. It is an experiment for both of us.He wakes up at 7:31 AM just like the day before. With ignorance as his shield, he ventures out into a world without privacy.The young ma (Read More)

2 days ago

mashable A select group of Twitter users have been granted a new feature that’s been a long time coming.Twitter is testing “tweet notifications” that will automatically call out new tweets since your last refresh, from the people you follow, on your Twitter.com homepage. Think of it as the next best thing to the auto-refresh.Althoug (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

Submitted by Kenmat from Google Reader: A few months ago, McKinsey & Co. asked me to write an article for their online magazine What Matters. The edited article, "Creative Commons: Enabling the next level of innovation" was just posted to their site.Following is the unedited original version.--The explosion of innovation around the Internet is driven by an ecosys (Read More)

4 days ago

ReadWriteWeb The good folks at Twitter recently rolled out list-making capabilities for all users, finally catching up to functions that many desktop and web apps have featured for a while.In addition to allowing users to create their own curations, Twitter has also added a basic widget-maker for adding tweets from any user's list to an (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

Wired Science Thirty-two new alien orbs have just been added to the growing list of exoplanets, including several that qualify as “super-Earths,” meaning they have a mass only a few times that of our planet and could potentially harbor Earth-like environments.In the past five years, the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, a sp (Read More)

6 days ago

mashable Confused about how to use Google Wave, the new Google product that combines messaging, wiki-like features and group collaboration into a single app? You’re not alone.To clear up the confusion, we recently published Google Wave: A Complete Guide, a feature-length article that explains Wave in plain English.Now Gina Trapani (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

O'Reilly Radar I use Twitter a lot, but I was not among the very first to see the new Lists feature. I can now, though. And what I find much more interesting than actually using the feature myself is the fact that I woke up this morning to find that I was on dozens of other people's lists. (In fact, while I was writing this, I turned up o (Read More)

7 days ago

Scripting News So many things to say about where Twitter's lists point, the thing is, I've said them all already, many times over many years. There's a whole architecture already designed and deployed for lists and lists of lists. And they form directories that are much more open than the original Yahoo directory or DMOZ. I know everyone (Read More)

6 days ago

Scobleizer Chris Brogan wrote that Twitter’s Lists make Chris Brogan feel bad. Why? Because he sees them as exclusionary. Chris doesn’t like that lists exclude people, by their very design.Here, look at my list of programmers. It excludes me.That makes me feel bad, according to Chris Brogan.Except, well, I’m NOT a programmer so why sh (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

Anil Dash Humans create the web, but we've largely abdicated the act of organizing web content to software. That could change.Twitter this week made its new Lists feature broadly available. As they've been described, Lists, allow you to enumerate a collection of some of the Twitter accounts that you follow, and then easily read updat (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

ReadWriteWeb According to a post on Google's Webmaster Central blog, Google is now discovering web sites by automatically scanning RSS and Atom feeds. This new process will help Google more quickly identify web pages and will allow users to find new content in search results as soon as it goes live. While not exactly "real-time," using (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

The Steve Rubel Lifestream This morning I logged into YouTube and I noticed that it now helps me find me find videos and channels from friends who have linked their Google contact information to their social profiles. Meanwhile yesterday Google rolled out its social search program (which so far I like). And recently Google Reader too became a lot mo (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

The Next Web According to reports from Music Week and Pocket Lint, Last.fm is moving into video content and television with Last.tv.Bought CBS in 1997 for £171m, Last.fm is hoping to expand their brand and align itself more closely with sister company CBS Outdoor to leverage its capabilities.Expected to launch in January, the TV offerin (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

louisgray.com Twitter has made yet another high profile acquisition to its executive ranks, as tomorrow, Josh Elman joins the microblogging powerhouse after nearly two years as Facebook's Platform Program Manager, gaining a role as one of Twitter's small team of product managers. The move is a big win for Twitter, who has been working to (Read More)

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