Google Real-Time Search Bookmarklet

ReadWrite Web has discovered a way to make a simple tweak to the URL that Google returns and get back real time results. However, as you can see from the images below, they still have a way to go. For example, a search for NFL surfaced 10 result. Meanwhile Twitter alone is seeing hundreds of tweets per minute, each of which has it's own permalinked page.

So even though it's not ready for prime time, the move is work watching. If you're interested in testing this out here's a bookmarklet you can use for as long as Google keeps this URL schema running. Just create a new bookmark with the following URL, click on it, enter your search and you will get back any results Google has uncovered in the last 10 minutes.

javascript:(function()%7B%20p=prompt('Search%20term:','');%20if(p)%7B%20document.location.href='http://www.google.com/search?as_qdr=n10&q='%20+%20escape(p)%7D%20%7D)();

Translation Technology Can Open Your Eyes to a Global Social Web

As more of us around the world join the web, a lot content is going to start to be produced in non-English languages. This hasn't been a factor for a lot of us, but I suspect it will as we begin to discover content-rich resources and individuals we want to interact with. 

Case in point. Recently I started reading a German blog that covers technology. It has a lot rich content, like for example the latest build of a portable version of Google Chrome - but it's all in German.

I was delighted to discover that not only can Google Reader translate RSS but it remembers this setting on a feed-by-feed basis. Even though the translation is Yoda-like it's incredibly handy and is opening up my eyes to new voices. I hope that the big social networks like Twitter and Facebook can one day follow suit.

How To: Backup Your Tweets and Make Them Searchable with Google Calendar

As I understand it, Twitter doesn't make more than your last 3000 tweets archived or searchable. But you can go store them going forward using Twistory and Google Calendar.

I had signed up for Twistory way back in late 2007 and added it to Google Calendar. However, I had forgotten all about it since I had that calendar hidden from the default view. I was delighted today when while tinkering that all of my tweets since have been archived! Here's how you can do the same for yours, at least going forward.

First, visit the Twistory site and enter in your Twitter username. Then you will be redirected to a page where you can subscribe to your tweet calendar in any one of a few different formats. 

Second, I would subscribe to it in Google Calendar. This will add all kinds of Googleness to your tweets, like search and exporting.

Finally, once your more recent tweets begin to populate in GCal they will all be archived going forward. You can browse them by date, or as you can see below, search them.

Very handy indeed.

AOL Integrates Lifestreaming into AIM for the iPhone

via appadvice.com

One of the big things that Facebook brings to the age of streams is instant messaging and presence indicators - the ability to see who is online right now and active on the service so you can chat in real time. I hope that sites like Twitter (and its ecosystem of apps) do the same. My bet is that they will soon tie into IM networks more in the near future.

In the meantime, I am very interested in what AOL has been up to lately in bringing lifestreaming and social content the other direction - into IM clients that millions already use. This isn't just a big user base but they're also mainstream users too. Now it's all coming in the iPhone.

With the integration of lifestreaming into the mobile IM client and the potential to create even more value through location-based social networking services, this entire space is about to get a lot more interesting. Keep an eye on the big IM nets and their massive social graphs. They are sleeping giants that are waking up to the potential here.

Facebook Goes Light, Seesmic Goes Dark

Two sites. One, Facebook, goes light (in the US and India only for now). The other, Seesmic Web, goes dark. Which one do you like better? It seems like there's a splintering approach to web UI's lately, one light one dark. One simple, another more complex. I just want to skin the web.

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