Jul 31
Twitter now officially supports the cashtag, which sounds very close to Cash Cab but is actually way less fun. Going forward you can click stock abbreviations with a $ in front of them to get financial information about the company. More »
Jul 31
It might not pack the same thrill as the rumors of in-feed video, but Twitter has added clickable stock symbols on tweets. This now throws up search results for both the stock and the company, using a new ‘cash’ tag, like $FB, to differentiate from typical links and tags. As noted by TNW, it’s bad news for the founder of StockTwits, a service that offered similar functionality to gather tweet-based financial nuggets. The new feature is live across Twitter’s web client — though it hasn’t hit TweetDeck just yet — and should make discovering exactly how many millions companies have made (or lost) all a bit faster.
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Twitter quietly adds clickable stock symbols originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jul 30
Owners and stakeholders of Big Media have thick skins. So the persistent trending of #NBCFail, and the riotous reading that the tweet stream provides, is probably bouncing right off their leathery hides. For one thing, the complaints were surely foreseen. They are largely the same criticisms NBC withstood in previous Olympics — over-curating, ill-placed commercials, tape delays, scandalously inane commentary, and a generally inferior Olympics presentation compared to other countries. The unspoken shrugging answer, of course, is financial. The lessons learned from that answer say things about how slowly institutional power inches into the future, the impatience of the digital class, brand ecosystem as a preeminent business battleground, and the ideology breakdown of the International Olympic Committee.
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Editorial: NBC’s Olympics and the steely grip of old media originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jul 30
Once every four years, nations of the world converge on a single city to celebrate humanity’s sporting extravaganza – the Olympics, and you can be sure that the sea of humanity there will be busy trying to cover anything and everything about the event, and to share it with the rest of the world. Twitter is one medium of choice, but it seems that fans of the Olympics in London were advised to shelve them non-urgent text messages and tweets during events, as not doing so results in the overloading of data networks which will inadvertently affect TV coverage. A good example of this would be Saturday’s men’s cycling road race, where commentators had trouble informing viewers just how far the leaders were ahead of the chasing pack simply because of a technical limitation, as data was unable to get through from the GPS satellite navigation system which was travelling with the cyclists.
It was a vicious cycle, as British viewers were annoyed by the apparent lack of information, and further clogged up the information arteries by venting their frustration and anger on Twitter. An International Olympic Committee spokesman advised, “Of course, if you want to send something, we are not going to say ‘Don’t, you can’t do it’, and we would certainly never prevent people. It’s just – if it’s not an urgent, urgent one, please kind of take it easy.” Hopefully future Olympics will see the mobile service providers have a backup plan for the deluge of users.
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Jul 30
With an opening ceremony celebrating social media and a guest appearance by the father of the world wide web, you would think the games are pretty Twitter-friendly. Well, not so much, as the hordes of London have been told to keep non-urgent texts and tweets to themselves to avoid disrupting TV coverage for those who weren’t lucky enough to score beach volleyball tickets. The recommendation comes after broadcasters bumbled through the men’s cycling road race due to a lack of available data from the cyclists’ GPS. The information bottleneck appears to be related to one specific network and sharing the data burden has been discussed, although probably not via Twitter. The IOC knows that telling the masses not to log on likely won’t have any impact — so, what’s next for the data haters.
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Data-hungry crowds spoil Olympic TV coverage, archers alerted originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jul 27
NYT claims Apple has dallied with investing ‘hundreds of millions’ in Twitter
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Apple has been on a social networking kick lately, what with Twitter’s footings in iOS 5 and OS X Mountain Lion as well as Facebook’s upcoming presence in iOS 6. From what the New York Times hears, that fascination could become more of a fixation. The company has reportedly chatted with Twitter in past months about the possibility of investing money on the scale you’d normally expect from a later-stage venture capitalist: the newspaper is talking “hundreds of millions” of dollars based on Twitter being valued at more than $10 billion. Any such deal would be less about funding (Twitter purportedly has $600 million-plus in the bank) and more about getting cozy in a social world where Apple still has some learning to do. Apple might equally want to dissuade competitors from getting any ideas, we’d add. Neither side will comment, and the negotiations aren’t even supposed to be active at present. Regardless, that Apple might have even toyed with a social networking investment could represent a major change in tack for a company that’s not always known for playing well with others.
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NYT claims Apple has dallied with investing ‘hundreds of millions’ in Twitter originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Jul 27
Apple is reportedly planning to make a huge splash in the social networking arena, but it doesn’t want to build something from the ground up. It would be impossible to compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter, so apparently the company is willing to dole out a bucket of money to Twitter and become a strategic partner with the microblogging site.
It’s something that doesn’t really make front page news every day, but when you think about it, Apple doesn’t really have a great presence in social media. That is to say, it doesn’t have much business in that market; obviously its existence on Facebook and Twitter is big enough, but it doesn’t play a very active role in the social space. If these reports are true, obviously Apple wants to change that.
According to a New York Times report, we’re not talking about a piddly investment. Apple has considered pouring in money to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. The potential deal would place a value on Twitter of more than $10 billion. We all know Apple has a growing desire to play in all the hot markets in the world of consumer tech, so this is a logical step. Obviously, though, none of this discussion has been made public.
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Apple apparently seeking strategic Twitter investment is written by Mark Raby & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 27
If you tend to be click-happy, you better be careful on Twitter today. There’s a malware epidemic going around and it seems to think it has your picture. More »
Jul 27
If you really want to get to know Team Gizmodo, we’re all on Twitter. You can think of it as Gizmodo unfiltered. With up to date links to our stories, hot gadget action, 140 character insights, and pictures of sandwiches. More »
Jul 27
TweetDeck updates web-based client with sleeker profiles, enhanced mentions and hashtags
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Now that yesterday’s sudden Twitter outage is behind us, it’s now time to focus on the blue bird’s own, and very popular client, TweetDeck. The all-you-can-tweet service has quietly updated its internet-based client with some minor, but rather eye-pleasing tweaks. For starters, users profiles have received a slight design improvement for an overall “cleaner” look, while hashtags and mentions are now #clickable throughout TweetDeck’s web offering. These changes are now live, so head over to the TD site, enter your microblogging credentials and you should be all set to give ’em a whirl.
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TweetDeck updates web-based client with sleeker profiles, enhanced mentions and hashtags originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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