It is confirmed that Microsoft reached a deal with Twitter and Facebook to add real-time updates into their search engine Bing. However, it only took few hours for Google to announce that they also got a similar deal with Twitter. No clear information is yet available regarding Facebook.
You can try the beta version of Bing Twitter implementation here, but don’t be surprised when you get the following message if your locale is not set united states.
TWITTER BETA
Sorry!
Bing Twitter Search is not available in this locale.
If you wish to access Bing Twitter Search, change your locale to United States.
Note: Changing your locale will affect all Bing pages. To change your locale in the future, click the United States link at the top right corner of any Bing page.
The feed from Facebook is said to work pretty much in the same way as with Twitter, however this is not available yet since Facebook has not opened its feed to public and they “need to be very careful about making sure the correct data is streamed.”, said Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg.
The weird thing in the story that Sandberg doesn’t mention any money involved in this deal, which of course I don’t really believe.
Number 7 used to be my lucky number or at least a number that I feel optimistic about until Microsoft decided to call its latest Windows release: Windows 7. I got this strange feeling about Windows 7 already when I was announced back in 2007.
I thought they might add some fancy icons and give it more glance and fresh look but underneath it will be the same old crap. Some people might say, well Windows XP was a stable operating system, probably the most stable operating system Microsoft ever made. How good is the performance of an operating system when it crashes hundreds of time everyday, eats up all the processor capacity and the memory available?
Many of you have probably heard the joke about having a “virus” on the computer called “Vista” !
The engineers at Intel scratch their heads everyday to improve their processors and the manufactures dumps more and more memory into the PCs, for Microsoft to run their latest Windows. Read more…
Google released their Q3 earnings report, which seems to be very good.
Here’s briefly some of the figures from the report
EPS $5.89 (better than analysts predictions)
Net revenue of $4.4 billion
Revenue up 7% sequentially
Google Sites revenue up 8%
Paid clicks up 14% sequential
Price per click drop a modest 6%
Free cash flow was $2.5 billion
If you are interested in more details , you can check the complete report here
However, what is really interesting to show is actually the graph from SiliconAllayer Insider showing Google’s free cash flow trend.
If this trend continue they will reach Microsoft in about a year.
Microsoft has been dominating the software market for personal computers with their windows and office packages. Their dominance is not going to last long and I have several reasons to prove it. Read more…
Started as research project at Microsoft Research, the innovative SenseCam Technology aimed at helping people with memory loss problems. The SenseCam is a digital camera that you wear on a necklace and takes a picture every 30 seconds without user intervention. It’s equipped with different sensors such as light-intensity and light-color sensors, a passive infrared (body heat) detector, a temperature sensor, and a multiple-axis accelerometer that create the input signal to automatically trigger a photo shoot.
This device has also a sound recorder, built-in GPS and all those nice features to create a digital copy of your life timeline.
Michael Arrington and the techcrunch readers discussed this life recorder and broke it down in all aspects (see the brainstorming here)
Some people were worried about device loss or theft. I wonder how do they protect their mobile phone or laptop? But what really amazed me in the discussion though is how most of the readers were concerned about the privacy issues. Ironically, the same readers are either facebook or twitter users. Furthermore, I think these people really need this device because they seem to have memory loss issues and forgot that they had privacy issues with social networking and blogging before they came a trend. As everything in this world, this trend either evolves or dies. Looking at the daily increase in the number of bloggers/facebook users/twitterers, I doubt the trend would die.
The SenseCam could certainly benefit from a SIM card to connect it to a network, yet another application for mobile broadband enabling remote storage, geo-tagging, face recognition, … Read more…