It seems more often than not, the “find people’ search feature in Twitter has been disabled.
Twitter Find People Follow Them
Such was the case again today.
This is one of several reasons why I think Twitter will ultimately be bought by Google.
Google can provide Twitter with both search and ultimately traffic monetization – two areas which presently appear to be Twitter’s most glaring weaknesses.
I don’t know what to think of the following two brand images which appear strikingly similar to each other.
Barack Obama Twitter
Barack Obama
Pepsi
Refresh Everything – Pepsi.
Which brand has borrowed and blended their image from the other?
Twitter has got quite a jump on Google Trends vis-a-vis its near real time “reporting” of the events surrounding the US Airways plane crash out of New York’s LaGuardia airport into the Hudson River.
In fact Google Trends is still showing four hour old data which predates the plane crash and thus doesn’t include any searches for US Airways, New York’s LaGuardia let alone Hudson River, plane or crash.
Google Trends
On the other hand, Twitter’s “Trending Topics” which is Twitter’s version of the Zeitgeist is topped by searches related to the Hudson River plane crash.
Twitter’s top searches at the moment include Hudson River, US Airways, New York’s Hudson and LaGuardia.
Twitter Trending Topics
Searching Twitter’s Trending topics doesn’t require having a Twitter account and its a great tool for tapping into yet another level of public consciousness.
Via Twitter and Mahalo: Photos of the US Airways plane in the Hudson River.
YouTube has announced a clever work around for video mixed with copyrighted music and uploaded to their site.
From the YouTube blog:
Previously, when a music label or other rights owner issued a copyright claim to block audio, the video was automatically taken down. Uploaders had two choices: dispute the claim or use our Audio Swap tool to replace the track with one from our library of pre-cleared music. Now we’ve added an additional choice. Instead of automatically removing the video from YouTube, users can choose to leave the video muted and live on the site, and many of them are taking that option.
Will YouTube videos with copyrighted content soon have a similar choice called the “fade to black”option?
YouTube Audio Muted
Regardless of whether YouTube implements a fade to black option muting copyrighted audio ie., songs is a brilliant solution.
No harm, no foul.
However, I wonder how muting songs will affect YouTube’s “Download This Song” song sales links they place below videos mixed with copyrighted music?
Download This Song
Has the lowly desktop become the final frontier for potential text ad display?
Google has launched an open source search box for the Mac that allows Mac users to search data on their computer and across the web.
From Google: “This app is very experimental, but through it you will be able to see many of the areas we are exploring: contextual search, actions, and extensibility. It is by no means feature-complete, but is a very good indication of things to come.”
Google Quick Search Box Features:
Google Quick Search Box for the Mac
The Quick Search Box features states – “It works as a location bar AND a search box”….
I am not sure whether this means geographic and physical location or the location within the Mac?
Which is it?
Download the Google Quick Search Box for the Mac from Google Code.
I am glad this Superpages Report didn’t take quite as long as projected.
Superpages Reports
Who can afford to spend 18 minutes waiting for any answer online or off let alone generate a single online report?
My 2nd prediction for 2009 is that Google will post stronger than expected results for their 2008 4th quarter reporting period and Google will turn in their best quarter ever in Q4 2008.
I can’t wait to learn more about Google’s 2008 year end results.
I was surprised to learn today while researching online that the purported corporate owner of the Google Jet ✈ has its legal representation here locally.
Google Jet
If I had to guess I would say this has something to do with the law firm’s avaiation practice.
Private airplane tracking services have come along way toward filling the gap that once existed between government and commercial airline data – and then some.
My curiosity about aircraft and their whereabouts peaked today after having seen five private jets all return to our local airport within one hour of each other.
I searched on Google for airplane tracking and found FlightAware.com.
FlightAware.com
I hadn’t yet seen an online flight tracking service quite like FlightAware.com.
If you know a commercial airline flight number or are curious about where your aircraft owner buddy has flown recently – just enter the flight or tail number (N-Number) into FlightAware.com to see the status and or location of the airplane.
If you don’t know the tail number you can search the public records for specific aircraft at the FAA by name, state or county or several other attributes.
Once you have the flight or tail number enter either into Flight Aware to track any airplane ✈…
Private Aircraft Tracking
WordPress is slowly integrating more Twitter related features into their blogging platform.
As of today there are 12 Twitter topics in WordPress support.
I expect the number of Twitter related support issues will grow significantly within WordPress throughout 2009.
Twitter WordPress
An example of a recently added WordPress feature is the ability to subscribe to Twitter Streams in the WordPress dashboard.
Twitter Streams
Although its a bit time consuming to hand key in every Twitter stream a Twitter user follows-
Readomatic Twitter
the Readomatic feature may ultimately help both WordPress and Twitter users conserve their keystrokes.
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