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Google launches Twitter timeline search

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 Almost everything you've ever said on Twitter is now discoverable through Google.    Google announced plans this week to roll out a timeline of archived Twitter messages organized by topic, allowing searchers to see when Twitter activity spiked with tweets related to their search query. When the user clicks on a particular day that contained an outsized number of tweets related to that topic, they'll be presented with a scrolling list of the individual tweets from that day.    It's sort of like the timeline search feature that Google rolled out several years ago, only for tweets. Searchers will be able to start at "right now" at the far right-hand side of the timeline and scroll back through time by moving to the left.    So, what happens when that embarrassing tweet from April 2007 shows up in Google search results for "shotgunning beers" attached to your name? Read on to find out.
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April 17, 2010
Google lets users time-travel through Twitter

Almost everything you've ever said on Twitter is now discoverable through Google.

Google announced plans this week to roll out a timeline of archived Twitter messages organized by topic, allowing searchers to see when Twitter activity spiked with tweets related to their search query. When the user clicks on a particular day that contained an outsized number of tweets related to that topic, they'll be presented with a scrolling list of the individual tweets from that day.

It's sort of like the timeline search feature that Google rolled out several years ago, only for tweets. Searchers will be able to start at "right now" at the far right-hand side of the timeline and scroll back through time by moving to the left.

So, what happens when that embarrassing tweet from April 2007 shows up in Google search results for "shotgunning beers" attached to your name? Read on to find out.


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They did it: Opera Mini lands on iPhone
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
Fewer than three weeks ago, we wondered aloud if Opera Software's bid to get its Opera Mini Web browser into Apple's iPhone App Store was pure folly, or if it was a gamble that Opera could actually win. This week, Opera (and Apple) proved doubters and naysayers--like me--wrong when Apple approved Opera Mini for iPhone. The appearance of Opera Mini on the App Store gives iPhone users another significant browser choice based on a completely different Web engine, and one that happens to be noticeably faster than Safari in our tests.  Read more 
Key Google Docs changes promise faster service
Posted by Tom Krazit
Google has made some under-the-hood changes to its Google Docs product, promising faster service and real-time collaboration tools. The changes address many of the demands of Google Docs users for more speed and better compatibility with offline products like Microsoft Word and Excel.  Read more 
Andreessen-founded Ning cuts staff, free service
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
Uh-oh. Just a month after Gina Bianchini, co-founder of build-a-social-network service Ning, departed the company, it's cutting 40 percent of its staff and axing its free, ad-supported service.  Read more 
Trillian 4.2 beta for Windows keeps chats safe for work
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
Conversationalists using Trillian IM will now have a new version of the multinetwork chat app to try: Trillian 4.2 beta for Windows. While it's still a minor update by our standards, there are a few interesting additions to this version of Trillian that make the software more workplace friendly.  Read more 
Evernote doubles note size limits, adds versioning
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Evernote has pushed out a useful update to its premium service that adds a few more reasons to spend the $5 a month (or $45 a year) fee. Premium users now get double the storage on the size of notes, which has jumped from 25MB to 50MB a pop. More impressive though is that the service is finally getting versioning control.  Read more 
E-mail advancements
Xobni's uber e-mail search tool primed for Outlook 2010
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
Microsoft Outlook 2010 beta may still be weeks away from making the jump to general release, but that hasn't stopped Xobni from creating a new version of its e-mail search tool that's compatible with Outlook 2010. We tested out Xobni's version 1.9.2 e-mail search assistant on Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 beta with good results.  Read more 
Gmail gets drag-and-drop attachments
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Google put out a pair of small, but useful Gmail updates this week that make it both easier to use and more integrated with the company's free Calendar service. Notably, both have skipped a trial through the service's "labs" section, and gone straight through to the final product.  Read more 

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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Google, Mozilla team up for a 3D Web

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 Two related projects from Mozilla and Google, each with the similar goal of bringing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the Web, appear to be joining forces after a change in Google tactics.    The two projects emerged at nearly the same time in 2009: the O3D browser plug-in from Google and the proposed WebGL standard from Mozilla and the Khronos Group, which standardizes the OpenGL graphics interface on which WebGL is based. O3D is a higher-level technology, whereas WebGL is more concerned with the nuts and bolts of 3D graphics.     This partnership could help bring the promise of 3D graphics on the Web closer to practical reality--something browsers are more likely to support and programmers are more likely to use in situations such as games or more sophisticated applications.
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Google trying anew for a 3D Web

Two related projects from Mozilla and Google, each with the similar goal of bringing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the Web, appear to be joining forces after a change in Google tactics.

The two projects emerged at nearly the same time in 2009: the O3D browser plug-in from Google and the proposed WebGL standard from Mozilla and the Khronos Group, which standardizes the OpenGL graphics interface on which WebGL is based. O3D is a higher-level technology, whereas WebGL is more concerned with the nuts and bolts of 3D graphics.

This partnership could help bring the promise of 3D graphics on the Web closer to practical reality--something browsers are more likely to support and programmers are more likely to use in situations such as games or more sophisticated applications.


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Making the real-time Web relevant
Posted by Tom Krazit
If there is perhaps one universal truth about the Web, it's that people want it now. During the past 15 years, our expectations for how quickly information should be delivered to us over the Internet have changed. Now a delay of minutes on a breaking news story is unacceptable. Enter real-time search.  Read more 
Google's search for the perfect learning machine
Posted by Tom Krazit
Google's quest to build the ultimate machine-learning system has produced some lessons of its own. The project, code-named "Seti" in a nod to the search for life in outer space, is being used on huge data sets in an attempt to solve what Google calls "hard prediction problems."  Read more 
Digg 'killing' the DiggBar, unbanning domains
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Digg founder (and now interim CEO) Kevin Rose announced via blog post that the company would be "killing" the DiggBar, the iFrame-based content viewer that caused a lion's share of controversy when it was launched this time last year. Along with the removal of the DiggBar, Digg plans to un-ban all domains that have been banned in the past. This could open up the site to a lot of junk.  Read more 
Apple strikes back at Google with iAd
Posted by Tom Krazit
Can Apple really out-Google Google? The growing rancor between Apple and Google has been generally fed by Google's attempt to outdo Apple's iPhone with its Android software. But now Apple is taking aim at Google's bread-and-butter--online advertising--with plans to introduce a mobile advertising platform called iAd along with the release of the iPhone OS 4.0 software later this summer.  Read more 
Qlipso acquires video site Veoh's assets
Posted by Don Reisinger
The assets of Veoh, a former YouTube competitor, have been acquired by media-sharing company Qlipso. The acquisition adds another chapter to the once-promising video site's storied history. Originally created as a YouTube competitor, Veoh was unable to live up to its hype. It tried several strategies to stay relevant. It even weathered a long and costly copyright lawsuit filed against it by Universal Music Group. The site eventually won that case, but unfortunately for Veoh, it didn't help it to attract the kind of following other video sites like YouTube and Hulu have enjoyed.  Read more 
Browser news
Mozilla Contacts makes Firefox socially aware
Posted by Seth Rosenblatt
Most people develop acne when they become socially aware. Firefox just gets an add-on. Mozilla Contacts is an experimental new add-on for the browser that provides one-click access to your address books, provided that you've synchronized them.  Read more 
Apple retooling WebKit for multicore chips
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google's Chrome browser draws heavily on the WebKit browser engine project led chiefly by Apple, but now WebKit is adopting one Chrome idea: separation between some computing processes. Process separation in general can increase memory requirements, but it offers major advantages: a problem in one area doesn't necessarily crash the whole program, and it's easier to spread work across multiple cores of modern processors.  Read more 

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