Google Launches Real-Time Search. We knew it was inevitable, and now it's here: Google has just launched real-time search integrated into search results pages. Google real-time search updates as stuff is happening around the Web — for example, live tweets, Yahoo Answers, news articles and Web pages now stream in on the actual result pages for your query. It works on mobile too (at least iPhone and Android for now). Here's a video demo from Google: MySpace and Facebook Deals That's not all, though. Live Within Days Google says the features aren't available to everyone yet, but will be within the next few days. Staying in Front of the Inevitable.
Verizon Droid Is The Real Deal. Verizon and Motorola finally lifted the curtain on their new Droid Android phone yesterday. Make no mistake, this is Android’s flagship product, and the first phone that will pose a significant threat to Apple’s iPhone. And it will be available very soon, possibly as early as the end of this month. MobileCrunch has been tracking the phone, which has also been called the Tao or Sholes, for some time. Just about anyone who has come in contact with the phone can’t stop talking about it.
And from what we hear, they have good reason. The phone is a three-way effort between Motorola, Verizon and Google. Unlike previous Android phones, the Droid is rumored to be powered by the TI OMAP3430, the same core that the iPhone and Palm Pre use, and which significantly outperforms Qualcomm 528MHz ARM11 based Android phones that exist today (Engadget has a great overview article on mobile CPUs). Droid will also be running v.2.0 of Android, with a significantly upgraded user interface. Proposed Salmon Protocol Aims To Unify Conversations on the Web. As comments on the Web become fragmented, conversations that occur on downstream aggregation sites often are taking place in a silo, disjointed from parallel discussions on the originating Web site.
Over the last two years, many people have found this evolution controversial, hoping to unify the conversations in a central location - and some services, including JS-Kit's Echo and Disqus, have taken the first step by pulling external discussions to the source. But a brand new proposal, authored by John Panzer of Blogger, called the Salmon Protocol, is looking to take advantage of Pubsubhubbub to unify the conversations in all places, both upstream and downstream.
And yes... the name of Salmon comes because those fish manage to swim upstream, just like the comments. An Initial Presentation on the Salmon Protocol The debate over fractured conversations has risen and fallen over the last two years. A Test Comment from the Aggregator Via Salmon The Resulting Comment Back On the Blog Via Salmon. Apophenia: Understanding retweeting on Twitter.
As we try to work out how Iranian citizens, activists, journalists, new media propagators, and politically conscious folks are using Twitter to converse about the Iranian election, we need to step back and think about some of the practices that are core to what’s taking place. One of these is retweeting, or the act of spreading a message along inside Twitter. Earlier this week, Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan, and I just finished a descriptive paper on retweeting as a conversational practice: Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter The purpose of this paper is simple. We wanted to explore retweeting as a conversational practice. In doing so, we highlight just how bloody messy retweeting is. Often, folks who are deeply embedded in the culture think that there are uniform syntax conventions, that everyone knows what they’re doing and agrees on how to do it. Please enjoy! Bloggers Ponder the Decline of Religion, Economic Prosperity and. The online conversation last week was strikingly different than the mainstream news agenda.
While the traditional press focused on economic villains-such as AIG and Bernard Madoff-bloggers largely eschewed partisan squabbling and parsing of details for a more abstract and far-reaching discussion. As the economy struggled, a major newspaper shut down and a survey highlighted the diminishing appeal of organized religion, bloggers and social media pondered the dramatic social changes that might be taking place and what the implications could be. The top subject was the decline in people claiming an affiliation with organized religion, as documented in a new study. This storyline made up 30% of the most linked to stories by blogs and social media sites for the week of March 9-13 according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The second largest story, at 24% of the links, involved the continuing problems in the U.S. economy.
Religion.