Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Google creative mind moves to Twitter

paidContent.org (I like how the chose to capitalize the C but not the p) is reporting in a story by Joseph Tartakoff that Google’s Lead Designer, or Design Lead, rather is headed to Twitter.

Read the full story here:

Industry Moves: Twitter Hires Google’s Head Designer As Creative Director | paidContent.org .

Tinker and Twitter together may sound stupid, but it’s oh, so smart

Tinker will be much more than a Twitter search engine  

 

 

Tinker will be much more than a Twitter search engine

 

This afternoon I was teaching a college class about the future of news gathering in a Web 2.0 world. I mentioned that most news services use Twitter as a place for gathering sources and new stories.

Tomorrow Tinker goes live. Essentially the new service will allow users to enter in search terms and more to find news and other events as they are being covered on Twitter.

The uses for Tinker and similar services are endless. Imagine following a concert tour, a natural disaster, or the entire cast of your favorite TV show all in real time.

Click below for more information on Tinker as covered by TechCrunch

Tinker Gives Twitter Its Long Awaited Events Firehose .

RUMOR: Twitter kills Jennifer Aniston, John Mayer relationship

Why am I posting this? It’s gossip. It’s trashy journalism. However, it is related to tech, social networking and most other stuff we cover here on talkingDigital. Telegraph.co.uk has all the juicy details.

Jennifer Aniston ended relationship with John Mayer because of his Twitter obsession – Telegraph.

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