It seems to be only working on google.co.uk at my place. Pretty neat I would say!
I actually like this Google search result preview experiment!
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You know Twitter is struggling when… Internal Server Error becomes a trending topic.
Twitter needs to update their Blackbird Pie service!
Twitter needs to update their Blackbird Pie service!
Update: Looks like this is fixed already!
I am a heavy user of Twitter’s unsupported Blackbird Pie service. It comes handy to embed tweets in blog posts.
However, the company developers have not really done anything with it since launch. It has a couple of known bugs (the time stamp is incorrect).
And it does not support the new tweet links which have a # in them due to the AJAXy nature of the New Twitter.
We can only hope that they fix the service and make it more useful to the end user!
Twitter Tweet Button is converting all links to t.co!
Just noticed that the Twitter Tweet Button and the bookmarklet are converting all links posted through them to t.co.
Even the links which are already shortened using third party services are being turned into t.co links.
I assume that has been like this since day 1 but I noticed it only today!
god help africa now that they have both airtel and ibm working together. http://t.co/gAqLUMV http://t.co/RpWHIH6
Sushubh
Sushubh
If you check out the tweet itself, you can see that Twitter is embedding them incorrectly! The second link is goo.gl based and it appears as a t.co link!
Google Docs + Google Scribe means irritating awesomeness!
Google recently launched a new service named Google Scribe which tries to predict what you are typing and show suggestions.
It is like Google Suggest but for writing.
It is available as a standalone service and a bookmarklet which you can use on a regular textbox on any website.
We can assume that Google might offer it as optional feature inside Google Docs in the future.
I have played around with Google Scribe. My net connection or their processing engine ensures that the suggestions arrive too late. I can type faster than that.
But this new tool can become a powerful app for people who want to write in other languages. For example… It can come real handy for an Indian web user to write a letter in Hindi.
Google currently supports English on Scribe. But they are going to add other languages in the future.
Future is very powerful. Future is dumb!
Opera RSS Reader needs some Google Priority Inbox magic
Google recently launched a new feature on their Gmail service.
Priority Inbox… It is yet to arrive in my inbox though I know what it is going to do to my email checking habit.
Strangely, I am able to manage my email easily… But RSS Feeds? Now that is a totally different beast.
I guess it is a pretty acceptable fact that the same feature is likely to land on their Google Reader platform… I had like to have something like that on my Opera RSS Reader.
Opera seems to have totally forgotten that it has a mail client and an RSS reader inside their browser… Most of their new versions are well turning out to be mmm problematic for long time users.
Digg has indeed created a monster!
By the way, Reddit today found out that it is bigger than Digg!
Google owns reCAPTCHA and yet
I get very annoyed when I have to answer a captcha like the one above. If Google integrates reCAPTCHA into their own services, it would make the process so much simpler. They OWN IT for god sake!