The wait is over. Twitter's new Lists feature is now available to all users, project lead Nick Kallen has just confirmed through a tweet. The functionality has been in testing for weeks now with a select group of users, and a couple of weeks ago, opened to a wider audience. As recently as yesterday, only 50% of Twitter had access to Lists, but after an unrelated bug forced Twitter to briefly remove the feature, they were able to roll it out to everyone else quickly.
This means that not only can
If you load up the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) today, you'll see a new logo commemorating its 19th birthday. Yes, that's really old for the Internet. Google, by comparison, is 11. Meanwhile, Yahoo is 14. IMDb is so old in fact, that is pre-dates the first web browsers. How?
Founder Col Needham explains the history a bit in a birthdaymessage today. IMDb was born on October 17, 1990 as a series of Unix shell scripts to let users search the USENET group, rec.arts.movies. It wasn't called IMDb
Maybe you've read some of the stories this past week about how FriendFeed's traffic is way down following their sale to Facebook. The stats don't look good, as the site's traffic may have plummeted as much as 30% following its peak just prior to the sale. But to anyone who has meaningfully used the site since its inception, you probably didn't needs stats to tell you what should be obvious: FriendFeed has turned into a ghost town.
One of the most compelling things about FriendFeed has always be
Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, Founder's Fund managing partner Sean Parker gave a provocative presentation entitled "The New Era Of The Network Service." In it, he argues that so-called "network services" like Facebook (which he helped start) and Twitter will soon dominate the web, rather than "information services" like Google and Yahoo.
It's a very interesting idea, to say the least, and obviously you're interested in it, as about 200 of you commented on it yesterday. So we've obtained Park
Yesterday, Facebook's Dave Recordon commented that he just finished a marathon session of The West Wing, a great show about the inner-workings of a fictional White House that ended its run on NBC in 2006. I agreed with Recordon, it was a great show. You know who else agreed? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
So why is this interesting? Well, the creator of The West Wing was Aaron Sorkin. He was also the executive producer and primary writer through the first four seasons. If you've heard Sorkin
Before I begin, let me just state that TSA has yet to confirm any of this on its website, so the details aren't entirely clear at the moment. That said, there are severalindications that orders have been issued to cease the use of electronics during international flights. Yes, that means no laptops, no iPods, no Kindles, no CD players, no portable DVD players, no Nintendo DSes — nothing that requires any sort of power on these flights. If this is true, it's absolutely awful news.
Obviously,
As you've no doubt heard by now, Google is ending its censorship in China and as a result, may have to pull out of the country. As you also may have heard, this is the direct result of the attempted hacking of some Gmail accounts. Google obviously takes its security seriously, and they've made that more clear by announcing that all Gmail accounts will now default to the encrypted version of the service.
Specifically, once Google is done rolling this out to its users (it's in the process of doin
Twitter just recently launched a new Twitter Engineering blog, and to kick things off, one team member, Ben Sandofsky, decided to share a video he made representing Twitter's development history. The video was made using Code Swarm, a software tool used to visualize data.
As Sandofsky notes, "it isn't exactly scientific, but it still goes to show Twitter's explosive growth mirrored in engineering." More importantly, it looks awesome. You can see the shift in Twitter development from Jack Dorse
While most users may have not realized it, Twitter has had a rather annoying problem for some time now: If you deleted a tweet, it would still reside in Twitter Search's index. This meant that if you said something you didn't mean to, or made a mistake that you hoped to correct by deleting the tweet, it was still easily accessible by anyone who simply typed your username into Twitter search. Finally, that's no longer the case.
Now, when you delete a tweet, it will instantaneously be removed fro
The year is 1963. It's November. At 1:40 PM ET, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite comes on the air. "In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting." Rapidly, everyone in America descends upon the closest television set to tune in.
Thankfully, we have not yet had a tragedy of that magnitude in the age of the realtime web. But we will. It's just a matter of time.
A couple months ago, Wolfram Alpha launched an impressive iPhone application based on their "computational knowledge engine" (a fancy word for search engine predicated on math) of the same name. Unfortunately, they horribly miscalcuted what it should cost when they set the price at $50. But rather than simply lowering the price, they're trying another trick.
As we pointed out at the time, one of the most humorous things about the app's pricing is that the mobile version of Wolfram Alpha was com
Sometimes tips come in that seem too good to be true. Take today, for example. I got a tip that Bill Gates' new site, The Gates Notes, was running on a Linux-powered server. This would be ironic since Gates is of course the founder of Microsoft, which is Linux's biggest competitor in the server market. It would be the equivalent of catching Gates or CEO Steve Ballmer being caught using (and not just signing) a MacBook at a conference. So is it true?
A quick search on Netcraft shows that thegate
