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Frustrated by a lack of access to your thoughts and feelings about world events and sandwiches circa 2008? Twitter’s working on a way to let users export and download old tweets into a file, according to CEO Dick Costolo. As far a service for search all users, the exec doesn’t see such a solution coming any time soon, telling reporters, “It’s a different way of architecting search, going through all tweets of all time. You can’t just put three engineers on it.”

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Twitter’s cooking up a way for you to archive your old tweets, relive your Bieber fever again and again originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re going to be in London for the 2012 Olympics and are planning to tweet about your experiences, it seems that not only will your tweets be shared with your followers (as expected), but there is a good chance that it will help turn the London Eye into a mood ring of sorts. The landmark will be lit up every night during the games and will have its lights reflect the overall mood/sentiment of tweeters. This is thanks to an algorithm put together by experts on “sentiment analysis” who will scan for tweets in the UK using the #Energy2012 tag, and via that algorithm, it will determine the amount of positivity. As shown in the example above, a positive energy rating of 75% will light up three quarters of the ferris wheel, while (we’re guessing) a 100% positive energy rating will light up the entire wheel, putting on a spectacular light show for all to see.

According to athlete Daley Thompson who launched this initiative, “We want to make the EDF Energy London Eye a spectacular showcase of national support for the athletes – and one that will inspire them every night of the Games.”

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Stanley interactive piano player takes song requests via Twitter, Tweet sends Bahrain activist to jail,

They grow up so fast, don’t they? Spotify’s US launch was just over a year ago, and the streaming music outlet wants us to know just how big its baby is getting. Americans listened to more than 13 billion tracks on the service in the first 365 days, and they shared more than twice as many — 27,834,742, to be exact. Not surprisingly, just over half of that socializing went through Facebook, as you can see in the company’s sugar-coated chart. Spotify is likewise flaunting 2,700 years’ worth of time spent skulking around its app platform. Don’t feel any pangs of regret if you forgot to buy something for Spotify’s birthday, by the way: the company isn’t holding any grudges and says you’ll “love” what it has gift-wrapped for year two. We’re hoping that involves more free radio stations and fewer holdout musicians.

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Spotify marks its first anniversary in the US with 13 billion listens, a whole lot of sharing goin’ on originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you intend to spend you weekend tweeting while listening songs on the radio, you have to check out Stanley. Stanley is actually an interactive piano player that will be performing live beginning July 20 to 22. Yes, as of this writing, Stanley’s busy backstage preparing for his first show. But before you idolize Stanley, he’s actually a project created by the folks over at Digital Kitchen. Sorry girls, he’s wired to play the piano all day. But you can send your song requests via Twitter. So, how does it work?

Stanley is equipped with a computer that receives song requests via Twitter. The computer then queues the songs and sends a reply each time a song is ready to be played. Since Stanley has tons of songs stored on its MIDI library, it will send data to its hardware controller so that each note will activate a solenoid valve to play the keys on the piano. You can check out Stanley here. While the project is interesting, its creators have no plans of selling the piano player in the future. Instead, Digital Kitchen says that it will be hanging in the office waiting for his next big gig.

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The 2012 Summer Olympics in London are going to be the most online-connected Olympics ever. That’s a fact, and it’s nothing worth writing an essay about because that doesn’t surprise anyone. What’s perhaps most interesting, though, is to see whether or not the organization that runs the international games is keeping up with the incredible social presence that the next few months will have.

So the International Olympic Committee has updated its official social page for the event, the Olympic Athletes’ Hubs. It’s an online destination for fans to follow their favorite athletes and their country, allowing them to connect via Facebook and Twitter to various Olympians. The committee is doing its best job to keep the flurry of social content in one centralized location.

Users are able to log in with their existing Facebook or Twitter accounts. In addition to that, the IOC has its own official Twitter account as well as a presence in Instagram, Google+, and Tumblr. The hub also will integrate with all these platforms. It’s going to be tough keeping on top of everything in one location, but the IOC surely wants to do the best that it can.

[via VentureBeat]

International Olympic Committee enhances online social presence is written by Mark Raby & originally posted on SlashGear.
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