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Screenshots Of Facebook’s New Real-Time Homepage

Facebook will launch a new homepage starting next Wednesday. Its centerpiece is the new “stream,” which is a real-time updating version of the current feature called the “News Feed.”

Before announcing the changes, Mark Zuckerberg talked about how much he admires microblogging service Twitter.

Facebook also said it would make public pages more like user-profiles.

What’s it all mean for Facebook’s prospects as a business? CEO Mark Zuckerberg only gave this hint:

“Once you have a connection with someone through stream, over the life time of that connection there are clearly going to be many impressions delivered, many clicks. Eventually having a connection with someone could be considered a metric itself.”

Here are some slides from Facebook’s presentation to announce the change:

Starting today, Facebook pages and profiles will become the same thing. They’re calling this “the Arrington feature,” because the TechCrunch blogger has complained that he can’t have more than 5,000 friends. Now he can.

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A lot of people have been talking about Twitter lately, the social media site that brings users the conversation of right now. We’re even doing a free webinar on Twitter next week. If you’ve spent any time

Why the gOS Could Now Hurt Microsoft – The Chart – IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness

Good OS, the Taipei, Taiwan-based company that launched in 2007, could turn out to be bad news for Microsoft.

The makers of the gOS, Linux-based desktop operating system may now find themselves at the right place at the right time. With a market that is anxiously sizing up the netbook platform – - driven in large part by Intel’s low-cost Atom processors – - the gOS offers a simple proposition: A simple-to-install, free operating system integrated with Mozilla and Google technology for fun and productivity.

It’s slick.

The CRN Test Center has taken a look at the gOS 3 Gadgets and compared it to other operating systems on a simulated netbook test bed. (You can take a look at the Test Center’s netbook benchmarking results, comparing gOS to Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Ubuntu, right here.)

gOS was competitive on performance. But its clean, Mac-like task bar at the bottom of the user interface, its combination of both OpenOffice.org applications and Google apps, and its friendly, gadget-based look and feel seem almost tailor-made for small, often keyboard- and memory-challenged netbooks.

Good OS describes its operating system as “a full desktop operating system perfect for desktops and notebooks.” That may be a stretch for all desktops and notebooks, but for the netbook platform it’s hard to argue.

gOS launched first on the obscure Everex gPC – - shortly before a wave of Tier 1 manufacturers came to market with their own netbooks running mostly Windows XP or Ubuntu. But if the market is opening up, as it appears it may be, gOS may have the opening it needs to get another look.

In looking at gOS, you also get a good look at Mozilla’s Prism software and Google’s productivity applications, including Google Docs and Gmail. And you begin to see how possible it is to build a nice, productive interface without ever-expanding hardware requirements or licensing concerns. At a time when some in the market are more aggressively considering doing more with less compute power, and less cost, those are all technologies that could fit the bill.

For now, Windows XP remains the most popular operating system for business PCs and netbooks. But the world isn’t standing still and Good OS and other vendors are in a better position than ever to get a good look.

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Twittering, Jiwaiing, Taotaoing – Microblogging in China

“Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.” – Wikipedia

Isn’t Twitter just a big waste of time? This is the question that always kept me from becoming an active user on Twitter despite having had an account for some time. I just couldn’t understand the appeal of reading and writing 140 character long posts that would risk my transformation into a Twitterholic, spending seemingly entire days connected tweeting and reading others tweets. After reading articles like this one and encouragement from other bloggers, I finally became an active user about a month and a half ago (@joelbackaler). It did not take me long to realize the value of microblogging goes way beyond answering the Twitter question, “What are you doing?” Microblogging helps build communities centered around shared interests and keeps groups of followers and those being followed up to date with the most recent happenings in their area of interest. It is so effective that I have even observed there are some outside observers who are so active on Twitter and the China blogosphere that they are just as if not more knowledgeable than some of us here on the ground. It was this train of thought that inspired me to write this post on microblogging in China. Over the course of my research I came across this excellent post from the 56minus1 blog entitled “Chinese microblogging platforms.”

The author (@ajschokora) explains:
“Twitter itself is the choice of China’s more internationally-oriented digerati: (a) because they were early adopters, before the Chinese clones got off the ground, and (b) because there’s little interoperability among all of the different choices, so users tend to join services where there are already conversations they want to follow”

He then provides an introduction to his “top 5” microblogging platforms in China:
Taotao ?? www.taotao.com
Fanfou ?? www.fanfou.com
Jiwai ?? www.jiwai.de
Zuosa ?? www.zousa.com
Douban Broadcast ???? www.douban.com

For those of you interested in keeping an eye on China through Twitter here are just a few people whose tweets I like to follow (definitely many more not listed):

@pdenlinger/@wolfgroupasia/@danharris/@imagethief/

@sagebrennan/@niubi/@christinelu/@raykwong/@elliotng

What do you think are the top reasons to microblog? Do you think one of the Chinese microblogging platforms listed above will become THE China Twitter? Leave a comment and start the conversation…

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A googol of Googlers published a paper at VLDB 2008, “Google’s Deep-Web Crawl” (PDF), that describes how Google pokes and prods at web forms to see if it can find things to submit in the form that yield interesting data from the underlying database.

An excerpt from the paper:

This paper describes a system for surfacing Deep-Web content; i.e., pre-computing submissions for each HTML form and adding the resulting HTML pages into a search engine index.

Our objective is to select queries for millions of diverse forms such that we are able to achieve good (but perhaps incomplete) coverage through a small number of submissions per site and the surfaced pages are good candidates for selection into a search engine’s index.

We adopt an iterative probing approach to identify the candidate keywords for a [generic] text box. At a high level, we assign an initial seed set of words as values for the text box … [and then] extract additional keywords from the resulting documents … We repeat the process until we are unable to extract further keywords or have reached an alternate stopping condition.

A typed text box will produce reasonable result pages only with type-appropriate values. We use … [sampling of] known values for popular types … e.g. zip codes … state abbreviations … city … date … [and] price.

Table 5 in the paper shows the effectiveness of the technique, that they are able to retrieve a significant fraction of the records in small and normally hidden databases across the Web with only 500 or less submissions to the form. The authors also say that “the impact on our search traffic is a significant validation of the value of Deep-Web content.”

Please see also my April 2008 post, “GoogleBot starts on the deep web“.

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