Jeff Merlet

Architecture, Scalability, Web, Mobility, Synchronization 
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Smart move: Twitter Search will crawl tweets' links and index content

Twitter Search, which currently searches only the text of Twitter posts, will soon begin to crawl the links included in tweets and begin to index the content of those pages.


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Filed under  //   Google   Index   Link   News   Search   Tweet   Twitter  

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Google + Java = Mobile + Widget + Web + Server - Sys Admin

Now with one language (Java) a mom 'n pop shop can develop:

  • a native mobile app (Android + Davlik)
  • a web app or widget (GAE Java + GWT)
  • a backend server (GAE Java and all the GAE goodies)

And no need for a sys admin or even a complex cloud deployment on EC2 or like!!



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Filed under  //   Android   App   Davlik   GAE   Google   GWT   Java   Mobile   Native   Simple   Software  

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iPhone Yahoo vs. IPhone Google: 1 - 0

At a glance Yahoo iPhone app is: Yahoo news/media properties + Yahoo One Search + Yahoo Connect (aka your extended social stream, messenger, emails, etc.) + your own content view (based on smart keywording).
 
Yahoo has done an excellent job with its new iPhone app. This is definitely a full integrated user experience and not a mere Safari launch front-end like the Google app. Except that for the search experience they are equivalent with some unique features on both sides. Google has voice search while Yahoo is offering a lot more types of results (Y! Answers, related app download, related products, etc.).
The access to news & media is really done with even a better job than the NYT iphone app.
One weird lacking feature is that when you want to add your own customized inertest (movies, weather, etc.) your current location is not used!!! While in the Yahoo Everything tab the app use your own location.
 
Overall this is a great all-in-one app.

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