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real time

by Karoli on May 25, 2009

The rest pales in comparison. Take it from an adrenaline junkie ADHD me.
Facebook has it, Friendfeed has it, Twitter has it and withholds it via API limits and limited search/discovery capability.
Steven Hodson thinks real time sucks. On the other hand, Google is finally realizing that real time search is a major [...]

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AIG. The company that’s too big to fail. Forget about retention bonuses for a minute and think about what brought us to the place where we’re sitting at home or at work or driving with the radio on listening to Congress scream at a guy who is making a buck a year to clean up [...]

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Recover your tweets

by Karoli on February 2, 2009

Here’s a quick and dirty workaround to Twitter’s grasp on your tweets that go back more than 20 pages. This should work, because Google Reader will go back to the beginning of RSS feeds. The key is to give it time to retrieve the entire feed.
Note: You must have a GMail or Google Account [...]

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If you’re a power Twitter user and don’t appreciate your 140 character gems being tossed by Twitter after you hit your 3,000th tweet, there’s a solution. This is also helpful for people who have lots of followers and/or follows.
By using GTalk and Dustin Sallings’ Twitterspy you can capture your stream in near-real time [...]

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[Update: Liz kindly pointed out that I dropped readers into the middle of the story without giving them a clue as to what I was talking about. Quick and dirty: Google lowered the page rank of bloggers who write paid posts or have paid links on their blogs to zero. Some of those [...]

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The GMail Video

by Karoli on August 30, 2007

I think this video is an awesome example of a collaborative community effort, with a maps mashup just for good measure.

One PDF of the GMail envelope, zillions of people sending in 10-second submissions of the envelope moving from left to right on the screen, an editor and a map. What a terrific [...]

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