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Telegraph gets it all wrong about Twitter Video

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Telegraph published a bogus report today about Twitter coming out with video. Mashable did the fact checking on it and found out that sure enough in line video is not even in the philosophical premise of Twitter.

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“That said, Twitter does lose out when it comes to multimedia: adding in-line thumbnails for images and videos (even if that content is hosted on 3rd party sites) would make for a much richer experience that could match Facebook’s news feed for image and video sharing. Yes, in-line multimedia can be done with apps like TweetDeck, but that’s non-obvious and an extra step for those more familiar with the leading social network. Even this could bring Twitter into conflict with developers however: if multimedia support were added, would there be default services in the same way Bit.ly is the default URL shortener?”

While I think Twitter could be a bit cleaner, and integrate inline multimedia. If you haven’t taken a look at Yahoo Meme! you really should it’s very clean and smooth and just recently rolled out English language support.

This is what I wish a Twitter 2.0 would really look like.

Originally posted on October 11, 2009 @ 10:03 pm

Twitter to expand internationally with FIGS

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Twitter which is apparently on the verge of announcing a data mining agreeement with Google and/or Microsoft (Bing). But in the meantime they are revealing a plan to expand internationally with FIGS.

In the beginning Twitter will attempt to crowdsource some of the initial translations. I know many users in Mexico, and internationally are using the English Language version yet however their Tweets are in Spanish.

Interestingly I see that market as a major place for expansion if they can make some deals with cell phone providers to provide cheap or affordable SMS communications with Twitter like they have with providers here in the United States.

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“Twitter is currently available only in English and Japanese. With some help, we will soon be rolling out support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish. These languages are commonly referred to using the acronym FIGS and are often the starting point for services like Twitter when its time for more language support. Later, we hope to offer Twitter in several other languages. No matter how sophisticated technology gets, we’re reminded daily that it’s about people and that’s something we’ve taken to heart regarding translating Twitter. ”

Source: Twitter

Originally posted on October 8, 2009 @ 7:58 pm

Google To Increase Spending

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Google, the internet and Silicon Valley’s pacemaker said it will increase spending according to it’s CEO Eric Schmidt.

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We are clearly seeing aspects of recovery, and what is notable is that we’re seeing aspects of recovery not just in the United States but in Europe. I had been in error in assuming that there would be a lag, that it would the U.S. first and Europe second. Asia, of course, was never significantly hit in the first place.

So that means from a Google perspective that…we never stopped hiring, but we told our team internally and again, we’ve said to many other people that we are increasing our hiring rate and our investment rate in anticipation of a recovery.

The key point of recovery appears to be a slow but steady recovery in European markets which many thought would take another year or two to recover to this point.

Source: All Things D

Originally posted on October 8, 2009 @ 12:58 am

The Economist Is Building A Wall

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The Economist Magazine is building a paywall to limit the number of articles which readers can access online for free, the latest sign that publishers are rethinking their attitude towards free web content.

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Only articles from the past 90 days will be available to the general browser, rather than 12 months under the current system. From the 13th of October, when something over 90 days will be behind a big old pay wall and therefore will be available only to paying subscribers.

In another news, only subscribers may utilize the “This Week In Print” , which allows users to access the magazine in a digital format.

I’m assuming this is similar to what many News Corp sites will begin rolling out as well.

Source: CNET

Originally posted on October 8, 2009 @ 2:55 am

Twitter To Mine Your Thoughts ?

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Twitter is set to start selling your thoughts to the big giants of Technology of Google and Yahoo, according to multiple sources.

One possible reason according to Brainz would be a nice injection of cash, and a help in growth. Twitter has remained largely stagnant in its growth since the summer.

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“The injection of millions in new revenue and possible exposure by Google and Bing gives Twitter hope for a new rise in growth both in revenue and users as things have really slowed down since the summer. ”

Source: Brainz

Originally posted on October 8, 2009 @ 6:11 pm