A World of Tweets
Real-time visualisation of geolocated tweets around the world: a world of tweets; http://eicker.at/WorldTweets (via @jseibert)
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Two Internets?
Lasar: How will we know when the Internet is dead? Are we moving towards two Internets? http://eicker.at/TwoInternets
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Wikia 2.0
Wales: The idea of Wikia 2.0 is to attract new people who thought wikis would be too complicated to use; http://eicker.at/Wikia
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Game Changers: Sergey Brin, Larry Page
Game Changers series continues with Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google; http://eicker.at/BrinPage
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Real Artists Ship
Mullenweg: 1.0 is the loneliest number. Usage is like oxygen for ideas. Jobs (1983): Real artists ship; http://eicker.at/10
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Google Place Search Marketing
Shotland: If I were a business focused on local customers, I would be excited about Google Place Search; http://eicker.at/1c
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Google Instant Previews
Google goes Instant Previews: graphic overviews of search results, highlighting relevant sections; http://eicker.at/Previews
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Google: “Instant Previews provides a graphic overview of a search result and highlights the most relevant sections, making finding the right page as quick and easy as flipping through a magazine. To use it, click once on the magnifying glass next to the title of any search result and a visual overview of the page will appear on the right. From there, hover your cursor over any other result to see a preview. For those of you who’ve recently stopped using your mouse to search, now you can navigate to a result, hit the right arrow key to see the preview, and hit the down arrow key to keep browsing. … Quickly compare results … Pinpoint relevant content … Interact with the results page”
NYT: “Even though most people think searching on Google is fast, Google is obsessed with shaving more milliseconds off the time it takes people to search. … ‘We’re trying to avoid the case where you click on a result and you discover pretty much instantly that it’s not what you were looking for and you click back and click on a different result,’ said Raj Krishnan, a Google product manager who worked on Instant Previews. ‘That’s a bad experience.’”
SEL: “The new feature seems promising, another way to save time in the searching process, because there’s less need for people to ‘pogostick’ with their search results. … Google’s system seeks to marry the two: an image of the page as well as extracting text. Rather than a small thumbnail image, it shows a much larger picture of what the page looks like. The larger image, and one that’s not in a standard square shape, especially helped with people finding the previews useful in testing, Google told me. … The images previews cover up Google’s ads, when they appear. Is this a problem for advertisers? Google says largely no. … Ads, by the way, will also get an Instant Preview feature in the future, Google told me. There’s no set timeline for this, however. … The preview begin rolling out today worldwide and should be in place by tomorrow for everyone.”
pC: “It’s worth noting, however, that Microsoft’s Bing has had a similar preview feature since its debut in spring 2009. On Bing, users can click on an arrow adjacent to the results in order to see a pop-up that includes a preview of some text on that page to see if it’s a promising result.”
VB: “It’s impressive how much Google’s search results have changed in just the last couple of months, especially since there was a period a few years ago when search barely seemed to be changing at all. The Instant Previews feature seems particularly noteworthy since Google has been notoriously protective about its search results and has resisted adding anything that might clutter up the page. Whenever you ask about competition, company executives like to say that they’re more focused on improving their own products in response to user needs, but it’s probably no coincidence that Google’s making big improvements as it feels pressure from Microsoft’s Bing.”
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Amazon Increases Kindle Royalties
Amazon increases Kindle eBook royalties from 30 to 70 percent, becomes more attractive to publishers; http://eicker.at/1b
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Politico: Beyond Print
Politico is not a newspaper. But it might be the future of print, a patchwork of partial solutions; http://eicker.at/Politico
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IdeaMemo: Drag and Drop Notizen
Das Ende der klassischen Flipcharts: IdeaMemo bietet Drag and Drop mittels elektrostatischer Notizen; http://eicker.at/IdeaMemo
Guardian: “Where Wikipedia is encyclopaedia-like, neutral (despite the regular flame wars between disputing editors) factual information, Wikia is for fan communities and more expressive. Rolling out an overhauled version in the past few weeks, Wales claims the new Wikia is far more social with better sharing features, a simpler ‘WYSIWYG’ editing interface, theme designer and improved navigation. – ‘The idea is to move into new markets, attract new people – people who traditionally thought wikis would be too complicated to use,’ Wales told the Guardian. ‘Wikia 2.0 marries the traditional wiki tools that have been so successful with newer social and editing features.‘ – Behind all these improvements is the ambition of making Wikia stickier, encouraging people to keep nurturing their wiki after the initial burst of excitement. … ‘Wikipedia is a cultural institution – and still the number five site on the internet,’ said Wales. Given that Wikia was founded in 2004, and Wikipedia in 2001, Wales’s empire doesn’t seem ready to buckle just yet. ‘I should’ve started sooner. All the tech components needed to start these projects existed several years earlier – there was no reason I couldn’t have started Wikipedia in 1996.‘”
RWW: “The company said it has a number of features in store for its users: Integration of social tools to let users share their edits and contributions with friends. Highlighting of top editors so readers can see who created the content and learn more about them. Surfacing photos and videos more broadly on content pages and including images in search results. Radically improved content editing via a new, easy to use, visual editor. Fan activity modules such as real-time streams, polls, top 10 lists, and achievement badges. New opportunities for brands to get involved in the conversation with their fans.”
TNW: “However if his software could be licensed and used to build company intranets, extranets, and platforms for writing rich documentation, websites and collaboration tools – that would be something cool to see.”