Twitter loses its chief scientist Abdur Chowdhury

Another member of the team responsible for microblogging social network Twitter ‘s early success has left the company.

Twitter’s Chief Scientist Abdur Chowdhury, who was responsible for implementing Twitter search and recommendations, confirmed his departure yesterday.

“So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. Twitter was an amazing experience & even greater set of people,” Chowdhury wrote in a Tweet.

Chowdhury originally joined the company after its acquisition of Twitter-search site Summize, which he co-founded … Continue Reading

Real-time search: How a whole ecosystem bit the dust

Yet another real-time search engine has called it a day, causing many to ponder how a white-hot industry fizzled so entirely in just two years.

Last week, startup Wowd announced its team was “moving on.” Many read this announcement as one of the darker stories of the entrepreneurial world: the kind of failure that entails giving investors their money back, open-sourcing the code and returning to corporate life.

In this case, however, this young company … Continue Reading