Twingly launches microblog search — Twitter search with a sprinkle of Jaiku and a dash of Identi.ca
Blog search tool Twingly’s new microblog search, as a concept, makes a lot of sense. You enter a keyword in one search box and get results from services like Twitter, Jaiku and Identi.ca. But in practice there’s a problem — and it’s not Twingly’s problem… Continue Reading
Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce
Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut down in two weeks.
The San Francisco startup… Continue Reading
A Fail French Bulldog sighting: Pownce goes down
Twitter recently touted the fact that there were no Fail Whale sightings all throughout its massive spike in usage during the U.S. presidential elections. Another micro-blogging site, Pownce hasn’t been so lucky today. The service has been down most of the morning.
The cause of the… Continue Reading
Once again, Twitter’s death is laid out. Once again, users will fail to notice
In a post on its developer blog a couple days ago, Twitter API lead developer Alex Payne outlined what the service is doing with the vast amount of data it’s receiving everyday. Payne discussed the service’s use of application programming interfaces (APIs), feeds and pinging… Continue Reading
Geolocation makes its home in Firefox with 3.1 beta 1. Companies start taking advantage of it
Well it didn’t take long for Mozilla to build support for geolocation directly in to the Firefox web browser. Just a week after it officially launched the Geode plug-in for Firefox 3.0, Mozilla today launched Firefox 3.1 beta 1, which eliminates the need for the… Continue Reading
Yahoo pushes its location platform Fire Eagle out of the nest so it can spread its wings
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Location, location, location. As computing continues to go mobile it’s an increasingly important feature for many web services.
Knowing that, Yahoo has built a developer platform around location called Fire Eagle. Today, Yahoo is officially letting it spread… Continue Reading
Twitter refugees find a new home (at least for this week): Identi.ca
First everyone was going to leave Twitter for Jaiku. Then everyone was going to leave Twitter for Pownce. Then everyone was going to leave Twitter for Plurk. Then everyone was going to leave Twitter for FriendFeed. There’s just one problem. Everyone is still on Twitter.
Twitter may have more serious issues than its downtime
While we crack a lot of jokes about Twitter’s uptime and go on about its potential valuation, it’s easy to forget that as with many communication tools, there is the potential for real, troubling issues. One of those came to light today when Twitter user… Continue Reading
Pownce opens file sharing to the public with larger sizes to boot
We talk about Twitter here a lot, but don’t often talk about one of its micro-messaging rivals, Pownce. That is quite simply because Pownce is not as popular as Twitter. Tonight however the service has rolled out two significant updates that may not close the… Continue Reading
Google buys Jaiku, Twitter losing ground
Jaiku, the popular service that lets you blast short blog updates to friends about you’re doing, has been snapped up by Google for an undisclosed amount.
Jaiku, based in Helsinki, Finland, has been a fierce rival to Twitter, a San Francisco company that is a favorite… Continue Reading