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Kamis, 17 Juni 2010

Live Blogging Oil Executives in Congress

The Lede will offer updates as executives from ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and the American arms of BP and Royal Dutch Shell testify at hearing of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee in Washington.

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Live Analysis: Ivory Coast vs. Portugal

All the action live as Portugal faces off against the Ivory Coast.

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San Francisco Passes Cellphone Radiation Law

A city measure was enacted even though there is no conclusive evidence that cellphones are dangerous.

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Militant Group Expands Attacks in Afghanistan

Lashkar-e-Taiba’s activities in Afghanistan have prompted suspicions that it has become a proxy for Pakistan to counteract India’s influence.

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sofyan_hidayat: Check this video out -- eBook Converter - Calibre - Ubuntu 9.10 http://youtu.be/SwA6eXv1Lz4

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Rabu, 16 Juni 2010

First Image of 'The Smurfs' Movie Hit the Internet [PIC]

So, yeah. Computer generated Smurfs. But really, what did you expect?

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Old Spice Guy Isaiah Mustafa Locks Up Deal with NBC

You knew this would happen. "Look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man."

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A year of digital TV: who won the transition?

Remember the DTV transition? The nationwide switch from analog to digital over-the-air television broadcasting crossed the finish line a year ago this past Saturday. So why do we feel like we're asking something akin to "Remember gopher?" or "Remember the BBS days?"

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Jon Stewart Discusses Obama's 'Bushy' Behavior (Vid)

Last night, Stewart went over the litany of campaign promises President Obama is failing to keep.

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Develop The Game, Build A Better Future

The first World Cup took place in 1930 and it has since grown to become an epic global event celebrating diversity and inspiring us to overcome adversity. More importantly, nations and people around the world have the opportunity to connect around something profoundly simple: play! The mission driving FIFA, the governing body behind the World Cup, is to "Develop the game, touch the world, and build a better future." Good stuff.

The Republic of South Africa will host representatives from thirty two nations as they compete for the ultimate international championship. This will be the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world. Twitter's rapid international growth means we are part of this global phenomenon as people everywhere seek to discover what's happening with their favorite team, their favorite players, and breaking news related to this worldwide event.

Using live widgets, real-time search, and Top Tweets (updates that are currently catching the attention of many Twitter users) we've put together a special site to capture the spirit of the World Cup and it's already pulsing with activity. Fans have a unique opportunity to connect with players, teams, and brands using Twitter to join the matches in a new way. We also are providing a list of suggested accounts to follow during the tournament and a World Cup theme for your profile page. We'll leave it up to you to learn how to do the neat little trick we're calling hashflags.

Twitter for Android: Robots like to share too

When we tweet what’s happening around us, we share not only our thoughts, but also web pages, photos, videos, location...anything. Mobile phones are increasingly part of our lives, and we seem to be doing everything but making phone calls. Reading the news, watching a YouTube video, and taking photos at events like the World Cup are things we expect to do on mobile phones – sharing our experiences on these little screens should be just as easy and fast as on big ones.

When apps work well with each other, sharing becomes as second nature on machines as it does in person. The Android platform is really good at that, and we’ve worked with the Android team to make it super easy to share what’s happening. Today we are excited to announce that Twitter for Android is available in Android Market!

Twitter for Android is a fantastic application to use, and sharing any link or photo is super simple too – just look for the share button in your favorite application and choose Twitter.

Reading tweets is easy in a bunch of places on your phone. Quickly access your timeline with the home screen widget, view a tweet location on a map, and see your friend’s latest tweet in your phonebook, GoogleTalk list or any application that uses Android’s QuickContact bar.

Check out the screenshots to see it in action.

We had a great time working with the Android team and are thrilled that Google will be open sourcing the code used in this app in the near future. We look forward to the amazing experiences developers will create using Twitter APIs in their upcoming Android apps.

This is just the beginning. We’ll be creating more great ways to read, find, and share what's happening on your Android phone soon!

(The Twitter for Android app is available for phones running Android 2.1 and above - just scan the barcode to the right. Don't forget, you can always visit http://mobile.twitter.com/ on your phone to use Twitter)

State of Twitter Spam

If you look "spam" up in the dictionary, you'll find two definitions. There's the "canned meat" and then there's the "unwanted email." At Twitter, we see spamming as a variety of different behaviors that range from insidious to annoying. Posting harmful links to phishing or malware sites, repeatedly posting duplicate tweets, and aggressively following and un-following accounts to attract attention are just a few examples of spam on Twitter. Like it or not, as the system becomes more popular, more and more spammers will try to do their thing. We’re constantly battling against spam to improve the Twitter experience and we're happy to report that it's working.

Percentage of spammy tweets posted per day is way down.

While the battle will never be over, we're doing well on the front lines. Advertising Age recently profiled our Trust and Safety team noting the strong progress we've made keeping Twitter light on spam. With help from engineers on our Research team like @wfarner, we've moved the percentage of spam flowing through the Twitter network way down—and counting. To help us battle spam, you can click the "report for spam" link on any suspicious profile page. This action alerts us about the account and blocks the account from following or replying to you. If you like, you can also send a tweet to @spam. For more information, read How To Report Spam on Twitter.

@twitterapi Showcase: TweetBeat's World Cup

The Platform team is always excited to see developers' creativity in building cool applications using our APIs. To showcase new and interesting applications built on the Twitter Platform, we're going to periodically feature great apps on our blog. For our first post, we'd like to highlight the @kosmix TweetBeat World Cup site. For all of the World Cup fans out there, you are seriously missing out if you haven't checked this out yet!

The TweetBeat site provides real-time updates from and around the World Cup. You can follow what is being said about the whole tournament, or focus on a specific team and even follow what's happening with its opposition. Not only that, but their Popular Tweets sidebar keeps you informed of what everyone else is talking about and, during matches, which team has the most Tweets.

TweetBeat uses the Twitter Firehose to cluster similar tweets into real-time stories from all across Twitter as they happen. You can use the speed slider to slow down or speed up the flow of Tweets and stories down the page. They have also integrated @Anywhere so that you can retweet the best tweets or follow your favorite Twitter users right from the site, without having to come back to twitter.com.

If you know of other cool uses of the Twitter API, tweet about it and mention @twitterapi or me (@themattharris) and we'll check it out!

Twitter for iPhone

Comprehensive analysis of the Twitter user experience in the iTunes App Store showed very plainly that people were looking for an app from Twitter—we didn't have one so they generally got confused and gave up. Obviously, we saw room for improvement. Starting today, Twitter for iPhone and iPod touch is available for free on the iTunes App Store. Loren, Leland, and the rest of the Mobile team have artfully crafted an application that takes the Twitter experience to a whole new level of awesomeness. We hope you'll love it like we do.

Something worth noting is that you don't need a Twitter account to enjoy this application. Browsing trends, reading Top Tweets, finding popular users, and checking out public tweets geographically nearby are all possible immediately upon download. Discovery and consumption of interesting, relevant information is a central focus. However, quick and easy signup exists within the application so new users won't need to visit our web site to create an account. Oh, and 日本語版Twitter for iPhoneを公開してます...With more languages on the way!