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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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

While many people tuned into their televisions to get the latest information on the Mumbai attacks, many more went online. As Google searches for the Mumbai attacks peaked, many were being directed to Twitter which was displaying 50-100 messages per minute on the attacks, many of them eye witness accounts. Twitter, along with many other [...]