TweetedBrands
TweetedBrands lists the most tweeted brands in the last 24 hours. Very interesting to see how brands could monitor what is said about them on Twitter and all other social networks in real-time.
Today’s top 10:
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If you have a blog and want to publish all your new posts to Twitter automatically, the best tool to use is Twitterfeed (@twfeed) (This actually works for any RSS feed).
As their slogan says, “twitterfeed: feed your blog to Twitter”. Once you’ve set your account, just add your RSS feed(s), your Twitter account, and all your blog entries will be tweeted (with a link to the blog of course).
Only problem is that this takes time, unless your RSS feed is published in real-time. A few blogging platforms (notably Blogger) are now using PubSubHubbub (aka PUSH) to do that. Twitterfeed just announced a week ago that they now support the standard, which means that your post will be tweeted in real-time (and not hours as before).
Blog posts -> RSS feed in real-time -> Twitter in real-time
Good to see that you can write long posts in more than 140 characters, and they’ll be broadcasted via Twitter in real time.
Twitterfeed is going to support RSSCloud (Wordpress compatible) very soon.
We’ll shortly be announcing support for RSScloud too, so that wordpress sites can also be published in real time.
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Google just announced that they reached a deal with Twitter too. So it’s not only Tweetbing, as Marissa Mayer announces on the official Google blog:
At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people to communicate their thoughts and feelings, but also as an interesting source of data about what is happening right now in regard to a particular topic.
Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.
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Waze, not Wave. Real-time traffic, not real-time web. Sometimes we need to cover real-time from a different angle…
This cool Israeli company aims at providing real-time live traffic information to all its users. They do this with their social mobile application (available on iPhone, Android, WinMo, Symbian) that enables drivers to build and use real-time road intelligence.
The service includes constantly-updated road maps, alerts on traffic and accidents, and data providing users with the fastest route to get to wherever they need to go.
Map and traffic updates are automatically collected and generated as users drive with Waze activated, but drivers can also actively report and update other users with what’s happening on the road including accident alerts, police traps, weather hazards, cheap gas offers and more. And the best part? Because the map and all of its content is driver-generated, Waze is completely free for users.
You can go to their live map, and see locations with slower traffic.
It’ll be interesting to see how this crowdsourcing works, as that requires every one to contribute, building a traffic wiki…
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You should know by know that Google released 100,000 invitations for Google Wave yesterday. The web is buzzing about that, and of course, Twitter is buzzing about #googlewave.
To get some invites, you can try to follow @GoogleWaveNow or just be a little patient. Each user has 8 invitations, so it should spread gradually as Gmail spread in 2004 !
If you still don’t know what Google Wave is, it’s a real-time communication platform and an open-source protocol that anyone can use. It’s like “email and IM as they would be if they were started today”. Still don’t understand what we’re saying ? just have a look at this video then :
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To complement of our latest post about Google’s real-time search challenge, here is a summary of Larry Page’s remark from Google’s latest Zeitgeist (from The Guardian).
Google’s search engine, in contrast [to Twitter], can take hours or even days to update. While this is usually not a problem as accuracy of results is more important than speed of updating, as the internet community comes to demand ever faster information Twitter has left Google in its wake.
“People really want to do stuff real time and I think they [Twitter] have done a great job about it,” Page said in a closing address at Google’s Zeitgeist conference . “I think we have done a relatively poor job of creating things that work on a per-second basis.”
He told the audience about the impact of technology on the world and that he has been asking his research teams to get faster. “Now I think they understand that,” he said. “I think we will do a better job of some of those things.”
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