Onepageartist.com offers a one-stop place for info on music artists
Finding out about a musician or a show has always been a three-, four- or even five-site process for me. First I’ll hit pollstar.com and see what shows are in the area on a given day. Scrolling through lists of venues and artists, I’ll see something like “BattleHooch” and follow the link to their home page. This page may or may not tell me where they are playing, so it’s back to pollstar.com where I… Continue Reading
Twitter COO Dick Costolo: Revenue is on and advertising is coming soon
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at the Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. I’m taking some notes as we go.
The big takeaways are that Twitter is making more than $4 million a year, but won’t specify how much and that’s through the recent data-sharing deals with Microsoft and Google.
Next, Twitter is going to roll out advertising soon. Costolo says, “You’ll see an advertising strategy from us in the near future. It will be fascinating and… Continue Reading
Seesmic jumps on Twitter’s new location feature with map previews
Seesmic, the Twitter client that was the first to incorporate lists, has now jumped on the social network’s new location-tagged tweets. You can roll over tweets that have a special marker to show a map of where they are, without ever leaving the client.
Twitter finally rolled out its location application programming interface earlier today. It lets you pair a tweet with data about where you are. It could be extremely valuable for real-time data about… Continue Reading
Twitter finally enables geotagged tweets with new location API
Twitter finally rolled out its new application programming interface for tagging tweets with your location.
It won’t appear on Twitter.com, but it will be enabled for location-based services like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid and Twittelator Pro. Tweetie already switched on some geotagging functionality earlier this year, so you can see nearby tweets.
This is probably the most significant update Twitter has released in the last half-year and it’s hard to say what outside developers will… Continue Reading
Twitter retools prompt, asks “What’s happening?”
Twitter unveiled a small marketing tweak today.
The company’s changed its main question from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?” It’s more of a cosmetic change to make it clearer to outsiders what Twitter is all about. Status updates have come to encompass a broad range of behavior, not just the much-mocked example of “I’m drinking a latte right now.” People use it share links, videos, images and small, provocative thoughts.
Co-founder Biz Stone writes:
“…a birds-eye… Continue Reading
Twitter adds description to new lists feature
Twitter just added a bit more description to lists, a recently launched feature that lets you create and share groups of accounts to follow. I’ve put an example up above with Venturebeat’s list. You can take an existing list, click ‘Edit’ if you’ve created it and just add a description.
How is the new feature doing? Well anecdotally, judging by the lists created around our VentureBeat account, it seems like plenty of people have experimented with creating… Continue Reading
Multimedia messaging comes to Twitter in the U.K. thanks to Orange
Is this the beginning of the end for photo-sharing services TwitPic and YFrog?
U.K. Twitter users can now send multimedia messages and photos directly to Twitter with help from mobile operator Orange. If you’re a Orange U.K. user, just text the shortcode number ‘86444′ with the phrase ‘START’ to initiate the service.
Then you can take a picture with your phone, send it to that shortcode, and it will be posted on an Orange-hosted site called Snapshot…. Continue Reading
How about that new Twoffice? (Photo slideshow of Twitter’s new headquarters)
Twitter just relocated across San Francisco’s SoMa District to new digs at 795 Folsom St. from its old headquarters on Bryant St. Co-founder Ev Williams‘ wife Sara Morishige Williams helped put together the new decor — complete with hundreds of bird decals and a DJ booth. Here’s a slideshow (from Twitter’s official set and Ryan King’s)
Twitter’s new digs (and old ones too)
Twitter, which recently raised a whopping $100 million round of financing, is migrating across the SOMA (or South of Market) district to new headquarters this week. It’s picking up from the 539 Bryant St. office, which has been its home for a year, to move to a new location atop 795 Folsom St.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported:
The micro-blogging service has agreed to sublease a 31,000-square-foot office at 795 Folsom St., now used by another… Continue Reading
Twitter temporarily disables retweets amid some bugs
Twitter has temporarily suspended its new retweet feature as some problems are plaguing the launch. They’ll continue the rollout shortly once they iron out the kinks.
The company reported:
We’re working on a few problems related to the ongoing rollout. These should be resolved quickly and it will be back on for those who had the Retweet feature previously. And we’ll then continue the incremental rollout of this feature to everyone.
The new feature has proven a… Continue Reading
Twitter, LinkedIn sync status updates to hone in on the professional market
Twitter and LinkedIn are syncing status updates as the microblogging network looks to serve a growing number of users who are tweeting for business purposes. In many ways, Twitter has become like a living resume — people use it to promote their ideas, to build relationships or to do research by asking their followers questions.
Sending status updates to LinkedIn also fits in with Twitter’s distribution strategy. Rather than trying to keep status updates within their… Continue Reading
Twitter to support location-based trends with new API
Twitter is adding what could become a powerful new source for news and things to do. The company is going to support location-based trends with a new application programming interface so that users can see what others nearby are tweeting about. That could make mash-ups like the one pictured above from Trendsmap quite powerful. (Trendsmap shows the most buzzed-about terms on Twitter for different cities around the world.)
Raffi Krikorian of Twitter’s Platform Team writes:
The one… Continue Reading
Twitter cleans up trending topics to make search results more relevant
Twitter is cleaning up trending topics by returning more relevant results when you look up popular keywords people are tweeting about.
One of the neatest little features that grew out of the Twitter phenomenon last year were these trending topics. The company adopted them after acquiring search engine Summize. They pick up popular keywords or phrases that the community is buzzing about, and they’ve been a useful way to find out about news (see sample at… Continue Reading
New retweet feature on Twitter begins limited roll-out
Retweets, a way of sharing content on Twitter, are coming into their own.
Twitter’s testing a new official retweet feature after announcing they were going to incorporate the informal practice earlier this year.
As you can see in mock-ups above, there will be a link to retweet a comment on the web site and a way to track where a widely retweeted idea or link came from. As you can see above, you’ll be able to track… Continue Reading
5 O’Clock Roundup: Raytheon buys BBN, Verizon hot … and not, things built on Twitter
Raytheon completes acquisition of BBN for $350M — Both companies do defense R&D and are packed with MIT grads. Raytheon works on military projects such as the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment. R&D company BBN makes cheery Internet publishing tool suite EveryZing, but the company also developed the sniper detection system Boomerang, used by American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
U.S. Army troops in their MRAP vehicles are currently equipped with 6,000 Boomerang systems over there…. Continue Reading
Startup School: Stone, Williams on how they co-founded Twitter
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today.)
Twitter’s co-founders Biz Stone and Ev Williams are on-stage for a question-and-answer session. This is paraphrased, but I’ve embedded a video courtesy of Alexa Lee below, if you want to watch the whole segment.)
Jessica Livingston: What were your main motivations in starting Twitter?
Biz Stone: We should start with Odeo, our older podcasting service. We realized we weren’t passionate about it. We were… Continue Reading
Bing, you’re not alone: Google adds tweets to search too
Bing got much of the glory this morning at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, when it announced that it was incorporating Twitter’s public stream into its results. But a few hours later, Google crept in with its own announcement.
Google, it turns out, is also pulling Twitter’s public data into its search engine. The company declined to release financial terms of the deal. Google had no prototypes to demo, but here’s what Marissa Mayer,… Continue Reading
Web 2.0: Testing out Bing’s Twitter-juiced search
Bing’s Twitter search just went live this morning. Here’s a side-by-side comparison against some of the more prominent start-ups in the real-time space.
A few notes – Bing’s results seem about two to six minutes behind other search engines. Like Tweetmeme and OneRiot, they put a bit more emphasis on the content being shared rather than the tweets themselves.
1) Trending Topics — Most major Twitter search engines incorporate “trending topics,” showing the top ten new things people… Continue Reading
Web 2.0: Microsoft details its new Bing-with-Twitter search engine
Qi Lu, who left Yahoo after a decade to run Microsoft’s Online Services Division, is talking on-stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today about Bing’s just-announced Twitter-search capability.
Here’s the core news:
Microsoft has a non-exclusive deal with Twitter to incorporate all the public information in the Twitter stream into search results in real-time. It’s going live shortly. They’re calling it “Bing Wave 2.” Financial terms are not disclosed.
Microsoft also has a deal… Continue Reading
Web 2.0: Twitter co-founder Williams wants to kill suggested users list; praises Facebook’s agility
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams is onstage right now at the Web 2.0 Summit talking with moderator John Battelle. Here’s a transcript of the conversation:
[Update: Now that I've finished live-blogging, here are some takeaways: because the company's rolling out lists, there's really no need for the Suggested Users List, so Williams wants to kill it. He's pretty doggedly focused on staying independent, rather than selling like he did with Blogger to Google. He also says there's... Continue Reading