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Gmail adds new multi attachment feature

Up until today, it’s been a little tedious to send large or multiple attachments with an email. You had to select each attachment individually and you never knew how long it would be before those bigger files were ready to send.
Today, we’re making some changes to the way Gmail attachments work. If you want to [...]

Twitter Integrated search gets one step closer

Search and Trends in Twitter for a fraction of folks.

Twitter Search has been growing ever more popular despite the fact that it lives on a subdomain of our site. Today, we’ve placed Search and Trends into the signed-in home pages of a limited set of accounts to get a better sense of how it works [...]

Finally! BBC News to Allow Embedding on External Sites

BBC News have announced that the site is soon to allow embedding of BBC content onto other sites!
Initially, only technology focused stories and video from the “World” section of the BBC News site will be made available for embedding elsewhere.
via thenextweb.com

Posted via web from James Ketchell’s posterous

Twitter Moving To Make Real-Time Search More Central

Twitter is starting to test ways to put its real-time search front and center. It is just bucket-testing the change right now with a few randomly selected users, so you might not see it. But you should expect it to be rolled out to everybody eventually. The search and trend features, which [...]

Google the next Antitrust target?

Christine A. Varney, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S.’s next antitrust chief, has described

Twitter the new king of Search?

Could twitter become the new king of search?  It seems as each day of 2009 goes by, my use of twitter is increasing.  Not only in terms of tweets, but in alternate uses for the service.  Most recently its Twitter Search that’s got my attention.  Although twitter does its best it seems to avoid you [...]

Google Testing SearchWiki On AdWords

I am shocked to see this! Google seems to be testing part of SearchWiki, Google’s way of promoting and removing results, to be spotted in the AdWords or sponsored ads section of the Google search results. Some people are noticing the X icon, which allows searchers to delete results from Google, in the sponsored [...]

Twitter Fight Scandalizes Micro-Blogosphere - Switched

What happens when micro-blogging turns macro-psychotic? On February 11th, marketing consultant April Dunford posted an annoyed message to Twitter, the mircro-blogging site, about being condescendingly scolded by a newspaper reporter. Although she named no names, the reporter in question, David George-Cosh of the National Post, saw her ‘tweet’ and took offense in a big way. [...]

Mining The Thought Stream

What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right nowabout any [...]

The Death Of “Web 2.0″

I’m not going to discuss the economic meltdown and its devastating effect on technology companies and internet startups in this post, but rather something that crossed my mind earlier this morning: “Web 2.0″ seems to become more and more a void (and an avoided) term. Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it [...]