by Andy Brudtkuhl on July 27, 2009
There’s been all kinds of drama lately about the impending ReTweet.com and how it’s pretty much blatantly copying TweetMeme. It’s gotten to the point where TweetMeme is set to sue ReTweet. This is all very silly but it’s quite apparent that not only is ReTweet ripping off TweetMeme’s idea but even copying their code.
With a little easy digging it is very easy to check out what ReTweet.com will be – aside from the killer domain.
Go to http://174.129.2.195/meme/top/index/ and check out what they are working on. It’s definitely strikingly similar.
But really – who cares?
by Andy Brudtkuhl on May 12, 2009
On the drive home from BigOmaha Aaron Webb asked me what I thought was the next big thing coming to the web. We discussed the evolution of blogs, rss, podcasting, video, microblogs, etc. I said I thought things would come full circle back to search.
Today, Louis Gray spilled the beans on TweetMeme…
The search engine indexes new stories as they are found in Twitter, and offers a great deal of filtering and customization. You can sort results by “Best Match”, “Age” and “Retweet Count”, showing the most popular forwarded tweets. Meanwhile, the results display categories for each update, and you can even filter by the media type, including news, images or videos.
Then Scoble pointed us to OneRiot, via VentureBeat…
You can try such a search of tweeted links already at OneRiot. The upstart social-network search engine crawls Twitter, follows the links, and creates a database of the content of Web pages and videos linked from recent Twitter updates. Right now, Thursday afternoon, a search for “Star Trek” returns as top result a hilarious Onion parody news report.
And Google announces the “Wonder Wheel of Suggestions” making its search filters far more powerful for the mainstream. These “Search Experiments” will be announced today..
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