Facebook announced on their blog today that they are testing a new version of Facebook Search. By the looks of it this is an attempted rival to Twitter‘s real time social search engine Twitter Search. The new search feature is only being rolled out to a very limited number of testers for now, but from [...]
May 13, 2009
Google adds forum and review search
Google appear to have added a few more search criteria to their UI. Amongst these new options are forum and review search. The UI looks a lot more like Google Blog Search where you are able to search posts from the past 24 hours, past week, past year etc. So this is a sign [...]
May 7, 2009
Big changes coming to Twitter Search
Twitter appear to finally be doing some interesting stuff with their search application. Twitter search was recently integrated into the home pages of all Twitter users. This meant that rather than having to go to search.twitter.com, users could search Twitter right from their home page. The latest news is that Twitter are working on [...]
May 5, 2009
Facebook shuts down NewsFeed application.
ReadWriteWeb reported yesterday that the NewsFeed application, which allowed you to export your Facebook NewsFeed in RSS and publish it pubilcally, has been shut down down by Facebook. A Facebook software engineer, Ari Steinberg commented that “We’re certainly not opposed to enabling you to export your own content (in fact, we’re always trying to work [...]
April 30, 2009
Facebook opens up your news feed: walled garden falls down
This week, Facebook made a very significant change to what can be done with your data by opening up your activity streams to developers. What does this mean? Well it provides a number of new opportunities for what can be done with your data in Facebook. Firstly, it has spawned the creation of a new [...]
April 27, 2009
Can blogs be both dead and evolving?
The Next Web wrote a good blog post about how blogs are not dead, as Andrew Keen argued. The Next Web argues that blogs are not dying, but evolving and maturing. While this is true, in their original format; as something anyone could create and publish content, blogs are dying. Of course, any one can [...]
April 1, 2009
I pity the (April) fool.
It appears as if today is not going to be a slow news day. Already it’s been reported that The Guardian has taken its newspaper out of print and onto Twitter, dangerous hummingbirds have been spotted in rural Gloucestershire (by Dr Julius Doctor) and Warner Bros have acquired the Pirate Bay. It’s April 1st [...]
March 23, 2009
Manic street features
Google, who recently launched its new UK Street View service, has been forced to remove a number of its images; due to complaints that some of the pictures displayed are considered too revealing. Such images include a man walking into a sex shop, a man vomiting, whilst another showed a group of people being arrested; [...]
February 26, 2009
Ryanair doesn't believe in online PR, but it's working well for other airlines.
Ryanair decided to take a innovative approach to online PR this week when blogger Jason Roe discovered a glitch in their booking system. The glitch, caused the booking page to show 0.00 for a flight, instead of the real price. Roe, being a web developer, thought this was a blog worthy piece, and reported it [...]
February 26, 2009
The world's biggest social networking site
No, it’s not Facebook. The largest social networking site in the world is QZone, a Chinese based social networking site. You may not have heard of it, but according to Tencent who recently published a report on the subject, MySpace following a little bit behind. Tencent says that of the 200 million or so accounts, [...]
June 17, 2009
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