While there have been many real-time search engine launches over the past few months (Scoopler, Topsy, Collecta, CrowdEye), most of them so far have fizzled (see Google Website Trends chart above). After an initial burst of curiosity, interest tends to dive. One exception, however, is OneRiot, which appears to be gaining some early traction in the real-time search race.
I like to use Twitter on my phone; it’s a convenient way to see what my tweeps are up to, and to share my own doings. I have been using Spaz on the Palm Pre since day one, but that changed today. During my daily rustling through the Pre homebrew apps (up to 132), I found Twee, a Twitter app. I loaded it up, and it has totally replaced Spaz for my twittering.
This guest post is written by Mary Hodder, the founder Dabble. Prior to Dabble, Hodder consulted for a number of startups, did research at Technorati and wrote her masters thesis at Berkeley focusing on live web search looking at blog data.
Despite the overwhelming market dominance of Google and the media hype surrounding the launch of Microsoft’s snazzy new service, Bing, not everyone is convinced that Internet search has reached the end of its evolutionary path.
Twitter users keen on using the microblogging site to do something other than blabber about nothing might want to take a look at Dell after it revealed it has managed to turn a healthy profit through the service.
Since before Ashton Kutcher championed the service, Twitter has been a cacophony of meaningless vapid personal updates, narcissistic celebrity feeds (not including Levar Burton, of course), and bored Facebook users looking for a new way to stalk that girl next door. There’s no denying that the microblogging social network has managed to grow at epic proportions – easily becoming one of the most popular Internet fads of the year – but it’s not easy filtering the signal from the noise.
Heavy hitting angel investor Ron Conway, who’s been called the “Godfather of Silicon Valley” by Gary Rivlin, is now focusing most of his investment attention on “real-time data,” according to an email he sent out to friends and contacts earlier this week. Conway was one of the earliest investors in Google, and has invested in more than 500 startups, he’s said in the past.
Spymaster, the Twitter-based game that we covered last night, is spreading like crazy today. It’s been a trending topic on Twitter throughout the day, even ahead of the hype around Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Because of this popularity though, some Twitter users are getting inundated with tweets from the service in their streams. It’s not really spam, because it’s their friends doing it, but to some, it’s very annoying. Former Digg lead architect, Joe Stump, is particularly pissed off.
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