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Cool Tools for Search 4.0

A cool new tool called DragToTop,  from a pair of serial entrepreneurs in Ottawa, Canada, captures the immediacy of a Twitter or Google Trends, yet adds a powerful toolset to help individual users organize and save searches about topics that are important to them.   (more…)
May 2, 2009
DesignDevelopment

Open Source Trends

Ol' Facebook has launched an open stream API giving third-party developers access to users' activity streams when creating applications. The idea here is to  spawn a new generation of advanced applications. An open source approach helped catapult Twitter into the mainstream as third-party apps like Tweetdeck found a myriad of uses for the micro-blogging service. Now the race is really on between Facebook and Twitter to become the dominant real-time social messaging and commenting platform. Tweetdeck rival Seesmic is one of the first developers to take advantage of…
April 28, 2009
DesignDevelopment

Trent Reznor: Online Content and Crowdsourcing Gadfly

Bands are always looking for the best way to promote their music online, either through YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, or a record label's efforts. Remeber that old 20th Century analog saying: "if you want something done you've got to do it yourself." It certanly applies in the digital media space, where anyone can do anything and lead in trends and ideas.  Comes now NiN.com, the official website of Trent Reznor's industrial band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor, who feuded for years with…
April 13, 2009
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Content Trends: Online Shows

When it comes to entertainment, they once said that radio would not replace newspapers or books, that TV would not replace radio, that videoplayers would not find home use, that TV shows would not work on the Internet.  However, we are seeing more and more new series shows appearing online rather than the boob tube.  This could be due to excellent quality in streaming and image delivery, and that many people, especially kids, tweens, and teens, are watching reruns of…
April 13, 2009