Tracking Twitter Trends
For all of you Twitter addicts out there that want to track the latest buzz and trends that people are tweeting about, here are two ways you can do this.
The first is on the official Twitter site itself, just click on “Search” at the bottom of the page. The latest trends will be displayed and clicking on any of them will pull up the ongoing Twitter public conversation.
Method number two is via Twitturly, which tracks the most popular web links being posted by Twitter users and posts the top 100 of these on its home page.
Update (May 4, 2009)
Twitter.com has updated its site layout, with trends and search being displayed on the home page on the right hand side. Does make more sense really.
Top Google Search Results
How do you climb to the top of all Google search results? The solution is simple: spend insane amounts of money on a political campaign (US elections) or celebrate a major sports event (how about the Euro 2008), you’re bound to get to the Top 10 Google results for 2008.
Voice Your Questions to Google
After some rather strange delays, Google has released a free app for iPhone users which allows good ‘ole human speech to ask it the important questions in life, such as “Where is the closest cash dispensing machine?” and “Driving directions to the red light district”.
From the IHT article:
understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated
voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the
Apple iPhone.
Users of the free application, which Apple is
expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store,
can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like
“Where’s the nearest Starbucks?” or “How tall is Mount Everest?” The
sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google’s servers,
which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the
Google search engine.
