4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web
There is a lot of hype surrounding the real-time web, and much of the feeding frenzy reminds me of the RSS space four years ago — though there is a lot of potential, there is also a lot of noise. How do you navigate through it all and which developments should you be paying attention to? What are the emerging trends for companies and entrepreneurs to watch for? Here are four real-time web...
Read MoreHUGE: Microsoft Inks Deals With Twitter and Facebook to Put Status Updates in Bing
Microsoft’s latest effort to gain relevance in the search wars is about to get a whole lot more interesting. According to All Things Digital, the company is set to announce deals with both Twitter and Facebook to integrate status updates into its Bing search engine. Details are expected to be announced later today at the Web 2.0 Summit, but the stage has been building for this for some time....
Read MoreHave You Gotten Your Twitter Lists???
Ever since Twitter announced it is working on a new Lists feature a month ago, users and developers have been awaiting its broad rollout. Over the past few weeks, Twitter has been expanding the number of people in the Lists beta, but now it appears that a full rollout is under way. As of yesterday, Twitter employee Nik Kallen reported that “25% of all users have Lists.” And then he...
Read MoreMozilla Releases Firefox 3.5.4 to Fix Security Vulnerabilities
The Mozilla Firefox browser has just received an update, and you should probably download it if you want to protect your computer from nearly a dozen critical vulnerabilities. Firefox 3.5.4, released earlier this morning, is being called a security and stability update. It doesn’t add new features, but instead directly deals with Firefox stability issues, fixes a few bugs (i.e. the ability to...
Read MoreGoogle Social Search Goes Live
Last week launched the social revolution for search. Microsoft’s Bing fired the first shot by announcing search deals with Twitter and Facebook and, at the Web 2.0 Summit, launching its Twitter integration. Google fired back almost immediately though, completing its own deal with Twitter and, perhaps more importantly, announcing a new feature: Social Search. Social search, demoed at the Web...
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