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Loic Le Meur Blog: What Larry Page thinks about Twitter
I just asked Larry Page what he thought about Twitter here is what Larry answered:
"I have always thought we needed to index the web every second to allow real time search. At first, my team laughed and did not believe me. With Twitter, now they know they have to do it. Not everybody needs sub-second indexing but people are getting pretty excited about realtime."
Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue | Industry Summits | Reuters
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday that the company is developing various add-on tools and services for the businesses and professional users of Twitter, which could create a revenue stream for the company. He said Twitter plans to introduce some of these tools by year end.
MySpace Is In Real Trouble If These Page View Declines Don’t Reverse
In other words, the war is over. MySpace user number growth has stalled out, and historically speaking, no company of note has reversed such a trend. But MySpace may have a much bigger problem on its hands than losing the social networking war to Facebook. Their real problem is that page views are declining sharply. That means people are still visiting the site, just far less than they used to. That means less advertising impressions in a time that MySpace can hardly be expected to deal with it.
There We Go Again. No, Micropayments Won’t “Save Journalism”
If you’ve been following the headlines on Techmeme over the weekend, you’ve likely seen more talk about the whole blogger vs. online journalism debate, the short-sightedness of big media and the inevitable demise of its historical business model. Every time that debate heats up, someone somewhere will at some point bring up the unlikely savior of the publishing industry once more: glorious micropayments.
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Yeah, Google driving traffic to the newspapers' sites are the reason newspapers are in trouble. This line of argumentation is not only idiotic beyond words, but newspapers have a simple solution: block Google from crawling their sites with a "nofollow" "disallow" tag in their robots.txt file. Now if that sounds complicated to you, it's not: it's literally one single word in an HTML page that tells Google "stay the fuck out because we're too fucking stupid to want people to find our material via search engines!"
Here's the problem, 1) the newspapers don't want Google to stay the fuck out, and 2) newspaper execs are actually not so fucking stupid that they want their sites blind to potential readers. The issue is, they want Google to PAY them for the privilege of sending people their direction. Why? Who knows! Maybe because they're fucking stupid?
@ EconSM: How Twitter Plans To Make Money From Search, Carriers and Content | paidContent.org
We’ve gotten hints about Twitter’s business model from its founders, its backers and random speculators—but Kevin Thau, Twitter’s director of mobile business development, gave EconSM attendees a more tangible picture of the startup’s plans for a three-pronged revenue stream: It’s about search, carriers and content.
Twitter Blog: The Replies Kerfuffle
We screwed up from a communications perspective this week. When I heard that this change was going out, I rushed to write a blog post. This setting had both product design flaws as well as technical flaws and I did not do my homework. My post came from a product design perspective but the technical perspective was the reason it went away so quickly. Normally, I spend more time understanding the issue before explaining it on this blog but in my haste I made a mistake.
Why isn't Zillow dead? | Webware - CNET
There was, of course, a fundamental shift in user behavior after the bust. But it wasn't all bad. Buying activity on Zillow went down, though site traffic went up. As Barton says, "Buyers are on the sidelines, but not passively." They're monitoring the market, he says, looking for the time to jump in, to either buy or sell. Like the Zillow site itself, physical open houses are crowded, he says. The browsing activity doesn't get reflected in home transaction data. Neither sales volumes nor prices are going up, even if people are circling open houses and online real estate sites like buzzards.
Google Launches Search Options, Declares Real-Time Search Biggest Challenge
Notice that real-time search is the No. 1 problem. (Twitter and a bunch of startups from OneRiot to Tweetmeme are also working on it, with the latter two launching their own real-time search efforts today). And it certainly is a problem for Google, even with the new recent results option. Try searching for any of teh top trending results on Twitter right now like Miss California (vs. Twitter search results) or Star Trek (vs. Twitter results), and you don’t even get any Twitter results on Google.
Twitter Passes NYT, WSJ in Unique Visitors - ReadWriteWeb
Where do you get your news from? While there's a lot of reasons to visit Twitter online, it's essentially a place to learn about what's going on in your world. For the first time last month, the site saw more unique visitors than the websites of both the New York Times and the Wall St. Journal.
Is BBC iPlayer a Typical App For Our Hyperconnected Future?
Why do I say that the BBC iPlayer will be a typical application for this hyperconnected world? Because it focuses on “content consumption,” an increasingly important activity in the future. Folks, indulge for me a minute.
The Internet’s roots are in a narrowband world and, as a result, most of the applications that have been developed over the last decade or so have been “publish”-oriented. The tools of the Internet thus far have also been publish-oriented. We have seen very little innovation in the user experience when it comes to consuming content. Instead, all energy has been focused on the browser, which has become the Swiss Army knife of the Internet.
The constant state of hyperconnectivity that comes in the wake of ultraband means that we will have to build applications that make consumption of content a superior experience. In such an environment, I would say the browser itself mutates and becomes “embedded” into these applications.
Howard Kurtz - Media Notes: Can Newspapers Be Saved? - washingtonpost.com
The bleak future becomes clear when one paper after another whacks a third or more of its staff -- the Baltimore Sun is just the latest -- and the New York Times Co. threatens to shut down the Boston Globe before settling for painful cutbacks. This is not some temporary downturn; these jobs are gone forever.
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Warren Buffett, who reads five newspapers a day, now sees the possibility of "just unending losses" and says he wouldn't buy one at any price. The legendary investor is not just very wealthy but owns the Buffalo News and a chunk of The Washington Post Co.
The people who run such companies bear a considerable share of the blame. In 1993, just before the Internet became a consumer force, I argued in a book that newspapers had become too cautious, too incremental and too dull, tailored largely for insiders. The rise of hugely profitable monopoly papers in most cities made them increasingly bland, seemingly allergic to controversy.
SCIFI Willing to Try Just About Anything Online
Science fiction fans may be punching bags for Klingon jokes, but they are also early adopters and provide fertile ground for new media experimentation. Case in point: the SCIFI Channel.
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I spoke with Craig E. Engler, senior VP and general manager of SCIFI’s digital arm, to find out what it does to tap into the power of this rabid fan base. “We have a very techno-savvy audience,” said Engler. “It’s a younger, more modern audience. They jump into this stuff.”
The Great Video SEO Frontier
While efforts to get web sites onto the top page of Google’s search results have spawned an entire industry, people are only starting to seriously consider the value of video optimization for search.
NBC Invests In Video Search Startup EveryZing And Signs Up As Its Biggest Customer
Video search startup EveryZing just landed its biggest fish yet: NBC Universal. Boston-based EveryZing signed a master service agreement with NBC to provide video search and search-optimization technologies across all of its online properties, which include NBC.com, iVillage, CNBC.com, and the websites for Bravo, Sci-Fi, and Telemundo. (The deal does not cover Hulu, which is a joint venture between NBC and Fox).
Update: Seeqpod Fire Sale To Microsoft Not A Done Deal.
Earlier today, I wrote a post wondering whether music-search engine Seeqpod had finally sold itself to Microsoft because of a suggestive link on its homepage linking to Microsoft Search. Some other bloggers noticed also. Since then, I’ve been able to confirm that no acquisition has closed and that talks continue. Seeqpod is indeed speaking with Microsoft, but not about an outright acquisition. Rather, it is trying to negotiate a piecemeal sale of its technology assets and find new jobs for its core technology team.
CubeTree Launches As A Facebook + FriendFeed + Twitter For Enterprise
CubeTree’s new enterprise collaboration suite, which is opening to the public tomorrow, has a familiar look: It looks like a cross between Facebook and FriendFeed (more-so before they were both recently redesigned). And that familiarity is part of the idea to getting this to work on the enterprise level. As with other social networks, there are two main components to CubeTree: The Feed and the Profile. But on CubeTree’s feed, instead of seeing updates from everyone in your social graph, you see updates from coworkers. And on your profile page, rather than highlighting pictures or videos of yourself, there is an emphasis on information and documents.
CubeTree co-founders Carlin Wiegner (also CEO) and Ross Fubini (also CTO), both formerly with Symantec, recently gave me a walk-through of their product. It’s impressive both in look and feel and scope. They’ve done a great job taking the best parts of the social networks I’ve mentioned above, and putting them into CubeTree with more of a business spin. And I think a lot of businesses may be receptive to that because a lot of their employees have already been trained to use social networks of this ilk, something which Wiegner also pointed out. And in huge companies (the biggest one CubeTree is currently testing with has about 100,000 employees), a network like this can give an employee a face.
3 Reasons Why Twitter Will NOT Index the Links You Share (Updated) - ReadWriteWeb
Below are three reasons we're betting that Twitter will not index the content of links itself, it will rely on Bit.ly to do it. Twitter will probably acquire Bit.ly as a result, in exchange for Twitter stock. If not Bit.ly, it will be one of a handful of other third party companies currently working behind the scenes with Twitter on this kind of search. Twitter is not going to do it all on its own, we're willing to bet on that. Update: After publishing this post we have been sent additional information illustrating just how close the Twitter/Bit.ly relationship already is.
Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler. Twitter Dominates Results.
There’s a new trend that starting to sweep the web: Real-time. Everyone wants access to information as it happens instantaneously. FriendFeed recently went real-time and now Facebook is starting to embrace it. But those are just two services — what if you could search all the web in real-time? That’s the idea behind Scoopler.
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