Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search
Yahoo is adding more context to news searches, bringing photos, videos, and even tweets into its search results page. Searchers on Yahoo–who are dwindling–will find new results for newsy events Thursday, when Yahoo launches new tabs on the Yahoo News Shortcut. You’ve long been able to find links to news stories about a given search [...]
Microsoft Bing Maps Beta adds much richer images
Microsoft’s new street-level imagery in Bing Maps takes advantage of Silverlight to do things Web applications can’t, according to the company. Microsoft is kicking Bing Maps into a higher gear, announcing a beta version of Bing Maps that uses Silverlight to display 3D images and its own version of street-level images. The company announced the [...]
Twitter founder formally unveils ‘Square’ project
A look at one of Square’s receipts for Sightglass Coffee, a San Francisco establishment in which founder Jack Dorsey has invested. (Credit: Square) Small business is front and center for Square, the new mobile-payments company founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Previously in a quasi-stealth mode (OK, more like San Francisco’s worst-kept secret), Square has [...]
TweetDeck links in retweets, Twitter lists, maps
Seesmic’s Twitter reader app for Mac and Windows is looking at some serious renewed competition from TweetDeck. The newly updated TweetDeck 0.32 (and AIR app for Windows and Mac,) packs in a host of changes that should make the desktop app more attractive to power tweeters. Chief among these is new behavior for retweeting, when [...]
Google, Twitter call attention to World AIDS Day
To show support for the global fight against AIDS, both Google and Twitter changed up their sites a bit Tuesday. If you go to Google.com, you’ll find a link under the search box that leads to several resources where you can learn more about AIDS, volunteer to fight the disease, and donate money to fight [...]
‘Twitter’ top word of 2009
Twitter has had quite a year. Not only has it attracted worldwide attention and millions of new users, “Twitter” has been named the top word in the English language for 2009. According to the Global Language Monitor, which examines language usage across the world, “Twitter” beat out “Obama,” “H1N1,” “stimulus,” and “vampire” to take the [...]
Twitter’s geotagging API goes live
Twitter has now launched the geotagging API, or application programming interface, that it announced in August. Users now have the option to opt-in to geolocation by clicking a box in their settings menu, according to Twitter. For now, the company said, the impact of geotagging will be in third-party apps. Users won’t see a difference [...]
Brizzly opens up…and translates
Web-based Twitter client Brizzly made a dual announcement Friday: first, it’s opened up into a full public beta mode (previously, an invite code was required); and second, it can now translate tweets into your default language on the site. To translate a tweet in Brizzly–which already expands links, videos, and photos posted to Twitter, creating [...]
Seize Seesmic Twitter app on BlackBerry, Android
The Twitter service with the cutesy raccoon mascot is making a new home on BlackBerry and Google Android phones. The free Seesmic, like its proliferate rivals, lets you read, manage, and compose Twitter messages much more flexibly than you can do from Twitter’s Web site. We crash-tested both mobile versions as soon as we heard [...]
Twitter, LinkedIn team up for self-promotion free-for-all
Chalk one up for the cringe-worthy marketing term “personal branding”: there is a new partnership between Twitter, hub for informing the world exactly what you’re doing and thinking at all moments of the day, and LinkedIn, the business-networking tool on steroids. In an announcement Monday, the two companies explained that LinkedIn status messages can sync [...]