Home | Sprout Builder - Create living content. Integrates FriendFeed Into Our Comments - ReadWriteWeb. 2008 has seen a big change in the way the blogging community communicates with each other. In a nutshell, discussions have become very fragmented. There are two main reasons for this: firstly Twitter and its 140 character soundbites has become very popular among bloggers, and secondly FriendFeed has tipped as the lifestreaming aggregator of choice for many people. The upshot is that there are now many places where people can have online discussions. This has been a challenge to blog publishers, for whom comments are an integral part of the blogging experience.
Over the past few months, the ReadWriteWeb team has been discussing internally how to adapt to this. So we got to discussing how to utilize FriendFeed and/or Twitter in ReadWriteWeb. Full disclosure, Mark Carey is a Technical Consultant for ReadWriteWeb. Here is an illustration of how it works: People commenting in FriendFeed about our post profiling Identi.ca The FriendFeed comments show up on the RWW post. Twitter now offers ‘Live’ Search Widget – The Next Web. Twitter now offers a search widget which you can embed in your site, blog or even in your WordPress posts: Twitter also offers a basic widget that shows your own tweets. With this new widget Twitter is acknowledging that search is a large traffic driver. Although I do like to be able to show live search results the description “Displays search results in real time!”
Seems slightly misleading. The widget simply does a search, and shows the results. It doesn’t seem to update with new search results as they come in. You don’t see new tweets as they are being tweeted at all. I don’t know about you but that sounds more like ‘Old’ search than ‘Live’ search to me. Expect it to show up on thousands of blogs soon either way. Financial site, the user can compose the site as she or he wants.