Will Real Time Search completely take over the web? No, but it is making a huge lunge into it. Sites like our guests Evan Britton’s Sency are on the cutting edge of a new trend to help us understand whats going on in our world in a more realtime way. On tonights show not only do we have a great discussion on Real Time Search, we also discuss Digg’s new iPhone app, shocking facts about the YouTube/Viacom billion dollar lawsuit, and *the end of social media??* dun dun dun! Check out the full episode below if you missed it live and let us know your thoughts too!
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Digg finally launches their promised iPhone app, Android version “on its way”
Digg finally launched their much anticipated iPhone application yesterday; it’s created quite the buzz as it rose to the #1 spot in Apples app store for “news”. The app does a great job of presenting a simple, yet powerful interface that really gives iPhone users a fairly in-depth Digg experience. The new application came just in time before Digg relaunches their site. Early buzz about Digg’s iPhone app has been very positive; most people seem to enjoy Digg’s iPhone application while others insist it’s not that big a step forward from Digg’s mobile site.
Digg’s iPhone app, developed by Taptaptap, really makes expansive use of Digg’s revamped API. Although you can’t do everything that you would normally be able to do from Digg’s site (comment, submit, browse freinds and fans), you can do most of the things having to do with the most important aspect of Digg – the content. Digg’s app really does a great job of circulating the end user around the content; browsing and searching through the plethora of great content that appears on the front page is a breeze. Organization and customization are definitely two areas where Digg could make some improvements, but all in all you can’t complain about Digg’s offering. Digg’s iPhone app is getting a lot of buzz; try it out if you can, it may just refresh the experience that you’ve traditionally known as Digg.com.
[via mashable, digg & itunes]
Shocking facts revealed in the YouTube-Viacom Billion Dollar Lawsuit
For over three years now Google YouTube has been in court with Viacom fighting a billion dollar lawsuit on Viacom’s copywritten clips being uploaded to YouTube. Recently some of the court documents were unsealed and have given some incriminating information from both sides. First off there are some emails that show YouTube cofounder Steve Chen outright telling one of the other cofounders to stop uploading ‘stolen videos’ but then also says that if they remove them traffic would drop 80%. On the Viacom side they are complaining about 62,637 unauthorized videos being uploaded, but at least some of those were actually uploaded by them delibirtly. Viacom had their employees “rough up” clips and upload them from Kinko’s. To date there is still no resolution but it sounds like both sides are both pretty guilty.
[via arstechnica]
R.I.P. Social Media?
As many of you have seen there have been tons of articles ripping on social media and saying that it is going to die. In the article, R.I.P. Social Media, it was a nice dream while it lasted; which I am using as a loose example, states pretty much what other articles have been saying as well. It basically says that Social Networks are not Social Media, which to start off with is confusing, since Social Networks are as we know it, Social Media platforms.
[via inquisitr]
Twitter reduces spam to just 1%
Twitter has radically reduced the amount of spam on the site, announcing that just over one per cent of all tweets are now spam-related.
This is a significant change from August 2009 when spam was at its highest on the site accounting for a massive 11 per cent of tweets sent.
[via techradar]
Guest: Evan Britton – Founder of Sency – Real-Time Search
