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Wednesday, 20th May 2009

OneRiot Announces API & Real-Time Search Partnerships

Real-time social search outfit OneRiot today announced their API and partnership program for adding real-time search capabilities to browser add-ons, desktop applications, social websites and other services. The mind reels at the possible use cases for such an API: Blogs and news sites could track and serve real-time, hot-topic links. Businesses…

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Online Publishers: Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

One of the main themes of discussion here at the Web 3.0 Conference in New York City is how Web content is being digested. With the shift from destination sites to syndication through multiple channels, the publishers that create all this content face a real challenge. They have typically relied on page views: the more page views, the more…

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Real-Time as a Service? Check Out What Notify.me is Working On

Can being "present in the now" be packaged and sold as a service? A number of companies believe that it can be and are aiming to offer a "real-time" layer of functionality to consumer websites and businesses interested in this growing trend online. On one hand it's just a speed up the infrastructure play, but the impact of real time information…

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Yahoo Placemaker: Extract Location Data from Any Text

At Where 2.0 today, Yahoo announced a new product in its already impressive lineup of geo technologies: Placemaker. Placemaker is a new open API from Yahoo that helps developers to make their applications and data sets location-aware. Developers can feed Placemaker any kind of structured and unstructured data, including feeds and web pages, and the…

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ESPN Comes to YouTube - And Brings Its Own Player and Pre-Roll Ads

Earlier this year, we heard that ESPN was supposed to come to YouTube this April, but AdAge now reports that the Connecticut-based sports network will finally arrive on Google's highly popular video portal on July 15. This would be an interesting development by itself, especially given that ESPN is owned by Disney, which just made a major…

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