With Twitter's foray into mainstream media there has been a urge for real-time search and urgency of delivering topical data. Google and Facebook are working out significant changes on their search tools to fillip status updates. In the meantime, tweets seem to be doing a better job in indexing the web. In a bid to offer real time search features Microsoft took the opportunity to add Twitter updates to its much-hyped search engine Bing. Currently the Twitter-related results are limited only to searches on prominent Twitterers themselves, not nearly all tweets.

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News of Jackson's death first spread online

NEW YORK — It was a where-were-you moment in a digital age. Michael Jackson's death was not learned from a fatherly TV news anchor. Instead, the news first spread online.

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Microsoft, Sony take aim at Nintendo Wii at E3

LOS ANGELES — This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo has been quite the moving experience. During presentations at the video game industry trade show, both Microsoft and Sony debuted prototype motion-control devices for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 that could rival Nintendo's popular Wii, the first console to employ a motion-detecting controller when it debuted in 2006. Full article (606 words) »

WordPress 2.7 (read detailed review) beta 2 fixes some crucial and long standing bugs in WordPress, so much so that it is worth looking into adopting it without waiting for the final release. The key fixes in WordPress 2.7 Beta 2: Full article (270 words) »

Snap.com provide capability to allow web viewers to get a image preview of pages behind the links. While it sounds like an advantage, in my experience it is a major distraction while viewing the site. Recently I was in Ryan Boren's site which uses snap for link preview. The article was interesting but the big snapshots kept popping up. As my link isn't superfast, it took sometime for it to display the image. It was very annoying as I was unable to easily read the site and I had to move the cursor carefully to avoid links!

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WordPress developers have posted yet another "security" update. Again, as always, you have to delete everything (except wp-content/ and config.php) and re-install from scratch. If you are, like me, tired of these frequent updates (after having finally updated to 1.5.1.2) then this patch is for you. With this little patch (24K zipped) (assuming you are already on 1.5.1.2) you will be updating just the 5 affected files.

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