It came to light today that Twitter is in talks with Google and Microsoft (and by default, Yahoo!) that would allow open access to Twitter’s Data feed.
The aparent non-exclusive deal that Twitter is signing would allow the Search Engine Heavyweights to display and monetize twitter results along side of regular search engine results.
This is an absolute brilliant move by Twitter on multiple fronts; Establishing a foothold in the “real time” search realm, monetizing their extremely popular service, and also reducing future possible development costs.
This has been stirring up some controversy lately in and around the journalism field over the past few days.
The Internet Manifesto – How journalism works today. Seventeen declarations.
What originally started as small declaration by a few German bloggers has recently been translated into English and several other languages and has quickly turned into the front line of the fight between “traditional” journalism and the web.
Since I work in both the print and the web side of this issue, it’s interesting to see how these declarations play out from both perspectives.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of articles on, about, or around Twitter. Most of them have to do with the communication side of things.
It is a change-agent to the way we communicate and consume information from person-to-person.
However, what most people don’t realize is Twitter’s real future, may lie in search… in one form or another. More info after the jump.
Here’s a nice little tid-bit I found today… Amazon.com has (unofficially) launched a URL shortening service for it’s products.
This really doesn’t come as a huge suprise, considering Jeff Bezos has invested in Twitter and the huge explosion in Twitter’s popularity lately, it only make sense that they would harness this power to integrate with their services.
First, find the product ID of the item you’d like to distribute… in this case, let’s use Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader: B00154JDAI then simply add it to the url http://amzn.com/ like this http://amzn.com/B00154JDAI
For those of you unfamiliar with the site, FreelanceFolder is a great blog centered around the Freelance way of life. It’s an indispensible resource for freelance designers, developers, and writers looking for insights and advice on a freelancing career.
Last month I submitted an article on the proper way to handle issues and problems that WILL arise throughout your working career: How To Handle Screwups When They DO Happen.
I recieved my monthly Google Friends newsletter today and noticed an interesting new feature… Google Earthquake.
Like other built in search functions like showtimes, stock quotes, and definitions, by simply typing in “earthquake” into the search engine, it returns the most recent, measurable earthquakes across the globe.
The data is provided by the United States Geological Survey (www.usgs.gov) and includes the magnitude, the location, the time, and even a cool little link to a Google Map of the epicenter.
This might not be something extremely useful, but it’s still kinda cool.
So, It’s 5:00 and I’m browsing blogs and news for the afternoon and I came across this little post on TechCrunch… About a new service called PetAirways.com.
Essentially, it’s an airline dedicated solely for shipping pets around the country.
At first, I wouldn’t believe this, but then again… there’s pet daycares, pet hotels, and even pet spas, so this isn’t too far out of the question for someone to actually invest in.
Ok, so I apologize for the uber-geek star wars reference in the title… but, i couldn’t pass it up… And for those of you who aren’t Star Wars geeks, Bespin is the name of the Cloud City from Star Wars Episode 5.
Bespin is an experimental online Code Editor by Mozilla Labs.
I had a chance to login and check out the service for a few minutes today and it has some promise. Even though this is just a technology preview and not a full production tool, it has some interesting capabilities.
Working with a few of the sample files included in the preview, it has many of the standard features you would find on a basic code editor… code highlighting, code repository, view files in a browser, etc.
