Real-Time Search Comes to Twitter
Interesting news in micro-blogging. Twitter will soon release it’s newest feature — the ability to search in real-time for key words and get results from recent twitter posts. (Read full ZDNet article...
View ArticleGoogle on the Brain
I was a bit surprised today when I saw Matt’s Jaiku post about Google buying Jaiku. (See Jaiku’s announcement and Google’s blog post.) Now, I know this is a conversation that’s been going on a long...
View ArticleThe EduGeek Journal Social Network is Launched
If you are like me, you get random emails, IMs, Jaiku/Twitter notices, etc from random people about random cool Ed Tech stuff. You try to pass them on to as many people as possible, but you inevitably...
View ArticlePresidential Twitter Debate
Very interesting story on NPR about the current presidential twitter debate going on between the Obama and McCain camps. Listen to the store here. Weekend Edition Sunday, June 22, 2008 – Andrew Rasiej,...
View ArticleIs Social Networking Getting Old, Or Just Getting Started?
In the current Web 2.0 world, many have predicted that “trends” will have a very short life. Many have written off Microsoft already because they already had their five years of dominance. MySpace...
View ArticleIs Twitter a Waste of Time?
Every time I start talking about Twitter, I get the same response: “Why would I want to read short messages about what someone ate for breakfast?”. You wouldn’t – but that is the wrong question to ask....
View ArticleWhy Twitter is Irrelevant (To Me)
Just had to get that off my chest. I don’t hate Twitter, or think that it should never be used. I just don’t find it very relevant to my life. And I have good reasons for that. Other people have...
View ArticleTwitter and Conference Session Hash Tags
One of the coolest uses I have seen for Twitter is as a conference back channel. Twitter has grown enough so that there are usually enough people to keep it interesting even if you aren’t there. The...
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