July 2009
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Devil in details of Yahoo, Microsoft search tie-up... →
More on the just announced deal between Yahoo and Microsoft to take on Google in the search market. Tags: google yahoo microsoft deal news Posted by: socialspacestation
Jul 29th
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Jul 19th
The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack →
A great and thorough explanation of how the hacker “Croll” accessed key Twitter business documents and accounts in the cloud. Comes down to human practices, chance and security holes. Tags: …
Jul 19th
The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank |... →
Alex Iskold discusses the recent fuss over real-time search in connection with relevancy derived from user’s social networks. Interesting. Tags: real-time search relevancy social network
Jul 16th
Screenshots of hacked Twitter admin interface →
I missed this originally but here is the French blog that released (supposed) screen shots of Twitter’s admin interface as a result of hacking an employee’s account. (c/o mashable) Tags: twitter…
Jul 15th
Author releases novel — 140 characters at a time... →
A chap from San Francisco is publishing his book through Twitter after being rejected by publishers. He could just self-publish an e-book? Tags: twitter book publish news …
Jul 15th
Twitter’s Security Meltdown Explained | Mashable →
This latest Twitter security problem is NOT related to the service itself. Instead it seems that some internal draft documents were stolen by hacking an employee Google account. Tags: twitter
Jul 15th
BingTweets →
Microsoft’s new search engine “Bing” has a new subsite called “BingTweets” for Twitter based search (c/o mashable) Tags: search twitter bing microsoft news Posted by: …
Jul 14th
Google's Marissa Mayer on the importance of... →
“Google’s Marissa Mayer believes there is a lot of useful information about your actions that will, ultimately, reinvent search.” (c/o LM) Tags: marissa google realtime search news
Jul 8th
Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe... →
Great piece at ReadWriteWeb taking another look at the importance of Twitter, in particular, its communication channel. Tags: twitter readwriteweb nobel prize channel news Posted…
Jul 7th
Facebook's Own Estimates Show Declining Student... →
“How fickle are kids these days? Just when all the grown ups started figuring out Facebook, college and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% …” Tags: facebook oldies
Jul 7th
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Jul 5th
May The Tweets Be With You | Twitter Blog →
Biz clarifies Twitter’s position on trademarks and branding. In a nutshell: still open usage but be original and make good things. (c/o Techcrunch) Tags: twitter brand tweet trademark
Jul 2nd
Exclusive: Sarah Lacy’s New Chapter On Twitter... →
This post contains fascinating excerpts from the book about Twitter, principally what went down when Evan took over as CEO. It also explains Jack’s diminished profile. Tags: twitter book …
Jul 1st
The Linguistics of ReTweets | Dan Zarrella →
Here is a more detailed analysis of re-tweets on Twitter by Dan Zarrella. He has used a larger dataset and a number of interesting linguistic tools. Tags: retweet twitter zarrella …
Jul 1st