Explore Twitter's Evolution: 2006 to Present. Fresh off celebrating its 5th birthday in March, Twitter isn't slowing down any time soon. In fact, April turned out to be just as eventful as any for the social media powerhouse. In April, Twitter introduced a new version of its homepage with a sleeker design and revamped pitch to potential users; expanded its Local Trends feature to 70 more cities and countries; and updated its search tool to make it easier to find new people to follow. Meanwhile, talks about Twitter's future intensified as CNN reported UberMedia — the company behind UberSocial, Echofon and Twidroyd — is "outlining plans" to develop a Twitter-like competitor. But Twitter users, have no fear — Mashable's Chris Taylor says Twitter "is a lot more robust — and unrepeatable — than it may seem.
" This month has gotten off to a fast start as Twitter was abuzz on May 1 with speculation and subsequent confirmation of terrorist Osama bin Laden's death. Busy two month so far, eh? Twitter's Abridged Timeline. SocialMediaTL_05.png (2000×950) Time Explorer. Welcome to the Time Explorer, an application designed for analyzing how news changes over time. Time Explorer extends upon current time-based systems in many important ways.
First, Time Explorer is designed to help users discover how entities such as people and locations associated with a query change over time. Second, by searching on time expressions extracted automatically from text, the application allows the user to explore not only how topics evolved the past, but also how they will continue to evolve in the future. Finally, Time Explorer is designed around an intuitive interface that allows users to interact with time and entities in a powerful way. While aspects of these features can be found in other systems, they are combined in Time Explorer in a way that allows searching through time in no time at all. The application is a showcase for the functionality of the LivingKnowledge project. Time Explorer currently works best on Firefox. Preceden - The Easiest Way to Make a Timeline.
Time Line Generator. Google-yahoo-most-expensive-acquisitions.jpg (1800×1200) Google Adds Photos To Some Location-Based Search Results. Google has announced a minor change to its search results page for some geographic-based queries. To fill in the white space that used to appear next to the small map, Google is now pulling in user-contributed photos from its Panoramio photo-sharing site. (Marketers: This is another reason to start using Panoramio if you’re not already.) It’s a bit unclear what kinds of searches will trigger the photos. It works for searches like seattle and paris, and yellowstone national park, but doesn’t show for searches like mount rushmore national park, grand canyon national park, or death valley national park. Related Topics: Channel: Local | Google: Maps & Local | Top News.