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Twitter Trending Topics: Are They Useful?
In: web2.0
5 Aug 2009The usefulness of Twitter trending topics has declined for me personally. All too often, I see people trying to “game” or “manipulate” the system to gain popularity. To me, the whole thing is null and void if it is contrived. Now that Twitter has brought these terms to the forefront, it seems the quest to [...]
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- Tags: friendfeed, real-time, search, topics, trending, twitter, value, web2.0
BingTweets Mashes Up Twitter Trends And Search Results
In: web2.0
15 Jul 2009Microsoft and Federated Media have partnered to create an interesting mashup called BingTweets. This site is in beta and offers a hands free experience on the latest trending topics on the web. After seeing this, I have a bit more respect for the efforts Microsoft is putting behind Bing and can only wonder how and [...]
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- Tags: bing, bingtweets, federated media, mashup, microsoft, real-time, search, twitter, web2.0
FriendFeed Filters Are The Star Of The Beta
In: web2.0
7 Apr 2009Yesterday, the team over at FriendFeed made a radical move to their popular website, friendfeed.com. They turned the website into a giant river of ever-flowing information. For those of us who are familiar with the term, “real-time web”, we saw this as a positive step towards it becoming a reality. I’ve already blogged about ways [...]
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- Tags: beta, filters, friendfeed, howto, real-time, screencast, search, track, walkthrough
