Twitter’s Ecosystem
Loukide: Restricting developers undermines the ecology that made Twitter valuable; http://eicker.at/TwittersEcosystem
Loukide: Restricting developers undermines the ecology that made Twitter valuable; http://eicker.at/TwittersEcosystem
Brynjolfsson, MIT, finds a widening gap between profits of high and low IT industries; http://eicker.at/ITindustries
Lasar: How will we know when the Internet is dead? Are we moving towards two Internets? http://eicker.at/TwoInternets
Viral, International, Competitive, Tasking, Original, Regular habit, Youth appeal: Social VICTORY; http://j.mp/cqMCEO
http://Bing.com is already live on a preview site: fast, accurate, interesting, competitive; http://tr.im/n0E0
Mashable: “Manually setting the location to various places in the world, i.e. switching from UK to US changes Bing significantly. There’s at least three very different versions of Bing right now, and depending on where you are, your Bing experience will be very different, which is a very weird decision from Microsoft, bound to cause a lot of confusion, but hey: it’s the Microsoft way.”
Obama: “It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption”; http://is.gd/av9M
RWW: “Clearly, the President-elect is not shying away from technology, and here at ReadWriteWeb we hope the examples he has set so far continue post Inauguration Day.”
TC: “The key thing to pay attention to is the guided search assistance on the left and the different experiences for the travel, images, video, maps, news, and shopping tabs.”
SEL: “Bing is live as a ‘preview’ service. What’s the ‘preview’ mean? That anyone can use it while Live Search, the service that Bing is to replace, continues on as the ‘main’ Microsoft search engine. Then sometime on June 3, coinciding with Microsoft’s Dr. Qi Lu speaking at our SMX Advanced search marketing conference in Seattle, Bing will shift over and replace Live Search.”