Check out this Twitter spike around the time that Michael Jackson died courtesy of our internal Spinn3r stats: Apparently, I’m not the only person who noticed this: As the news of Michael Jackson’s fate unfolded, sites around the Web felt the strain of spiking interest. On Twitter, the volume of Jackson-related messages – up to [...]
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This is good news. Facebook now has public status updates. We’re eager to have more Facebook content in Spinn3r (and personally I’m a big advocate of the open web). Facebook has just announced that it’s now testing a new version of the “publisher” that allows users to choose who can see their status updates and [...]
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Microformats are four years old now and will have a birthday party this friday to celebrate. Some of us from the Spinn3r team will be there as well. Unfortunately, due to a timing error, our Spin3nr 3.0 launch dinner is that night so I need to take off around 8pm.
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Venturebeat has a great piece on Real Time Search out right now covering a hot new trend. Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups like Topsy, almost.at and Scoopler. The companies are hoping to edge in on a space that Google co-founder Larry Page has admitted [...]
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I threw this together in a couple hours tonight. The mainstream news is pretty pathetic at handling this story so I just figured Twitter would be covering it correctly. News is sorted by time and by rank. Any videos are embedded directly (also sorted by rank). Message me on Twitter if you have any commentary.
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Spinn3r 3.1 just went live today and we’re announcing two new features. Twitter Firehose Support Spinn3r listens to a new Twitter firehose API which is a sample of the full Twitter feed. All Twitter content is classified with a new MICROBLOG publisher type which we will be using for Twitter, Identi.ca, Jaiku, and other Microblog [...]
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If you’ve been paying attention to the news, there are massive protests and riots all over Tehran following the recent (potentially corrupt) election. The phones have been cut off and you can’t make calls into Tehran. Apparently, you can’t blog if you’re hosted on Blogfa.com. They’re down at the moment and not responding. Here’s the [...]
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It looks like Google might be launching a microblog search engine: Google prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter. Since it’s very easy to post updates and the posts are usually very short, micro-blogging services are great for live blogging, posting real-time information about an event. Twitter’s [...]
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The new Facebook Pages are really just blogs. Unfortunately, not very good ones. First. It’s totally possible that a given page/blog doesn’t have permalinks. If it’s a ‘note’ then it has a permalink. If it’s a ‘link’ then it does not have a permalink. How am I supposed to share these with people over IM [...]
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Perhaps you’ve been reading all the news today about Apple’s new Snow Leopard release. What you didn’t see mentioned is that the Snow Leopard is an endangered species. Along with the Bengal Tigers and most of the big cats. The total wild population could be from 4-6k individuals. The Snow Leopard might become extinct in [...]
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