Yahoo, like Microsoft and Google before it, has struck a deal to get access to Twitter’s real-time firehose of tweets. It’s also announcing plans to integrate Twitter across all its sites, as part of Yahoo’s big strategy to be an aggregator for the social web. Read more »
The corporate social-networking and microblogging scene is evolving at a staggering rate, spurred on by the massive growth in consumer-oriented tools like Facebook and Twitter. Here at WebWorkerDaily we’ve covered many of the apps in this space, like Socialtext, present.ly and Yammer, but if you want […] Read more »
As the web and search get more up-to-the-minute, relevant and timely advertising shouldn’t be far behind. OneRiot, a Boulder, Colo.-based startup, this morning is launching a stream of real-time ads on currently trending topics. Read more »
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Trackle, which enables users to set up alerts for a wide variety of topics such as new job postings, flight prices, home listings, local events and more, is building out community search and discovery service for that kind of information. Read more »
The real-time web has never been hotter, with Bing and Google presenting Twitter and Facebook updates in real time, and Google upping the ante with news headlines and MySpace updates, as well. This type of data is just the tip of the real-time iceberg, though, and ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Yahoo, following in the footsteps of Google, said today it’s adding tweets to the bottom of search results pages for topics it has determined as “buzzing.” But Yahoo is not paying Twitter to get its full so-called Firehose of tweets, the way Google and Microsoft are. Read more »
Lazyfeed has relaunched itself with an emphasis on making things even easier for you and, thus, making you even lazier (to use its own terminology). Topic-based readers (a subject we’ve written about before) have become popular of late, but Lazyfeed appears to be gaining the most […] Read more »
Google’s array of search product announcements today were impressive, but not unheard of. Imagine how many startup CEOs are at this very moment drafting blog posts welcoming the monolith to their territory and spinning competition from Mountain View as a good thing. Read more »
It was foretold, and lo, it has come to pass: Google has implemented real-time search, built right into its existing search results framework. What does that mean? It means you get instant access to stuff that’s happening as it happens, including up-to-the-minute results from Yahoo! Answers, […] Read more »
Google will include Twitter’s real-time status updates into its search results, Google VP Marissa Mayer said in a blog post released this afternoon. This comes hot off the heels of Microsoft’s announcement this morning that it will include status update feeds from Facebook and Twitter into […] Read more »
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Cuil, a company of ex-Googlers that developed a search engine of the same name, released a new streaming feature today that displays real-time search results in a box on the site. It’s intended to help you watch the conversation about your search term unfold on the […] Read more »
Twitter, you’re not the only one with up-to-the-second search results. Google now boasts that ability, too, a fact revealed in an Omgili blog post. It isn’t yet a publicly-available feature, but with very little effort on your part, you too can narrow your results to “this […] Read more »
Gist, a free web service that provides a snapshot of information about your email contacts, is publicly launching in beta today. The web service pulls information about email contacts and the companies they work for from around 50,000 news sites and 20 million blogs and is […] Read more »
Despite all the hype and excitement around the real-time web, access to real-time information online is hardly a new phenomenon. That fact stuck with me after talking to Chris Cox, Facebook’s product director, last week at the social networking company’s headquarters. As he noted, “Real time has […] Read more »
Caught up in a wave of pressure to make the banking industry pay for wrecking the economy, the SEC and a few prominent politicians have turned their collective gaze toward high-frequency trading (aka algorithmic or electronic or flash trading). Among the major criticisms of the ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
JetBlue and United are giving their Twitter followers first crack at discounted airfare in an effort to fill seats that would otherwise go empty. Though airlines have already been doing this through email, Twitter fares (“Twares” or “Cheeps,” depending on which areline you follow) are a ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Smart energy has become a household term, but smart energy technology still has a long road ahead before it actually reaches most U.S. households. However, the residential market is ripe with opportunities (and challenges) for both established and new technology innovators to revolutionize the ways in which we use energy. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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