Archive for July, 2008

Twitter is making us all sad, let us eat Plurk

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Twitter is an interesting idea, but as I joke with Liberty, telling a bunch of random fellows that you are going to “eat some cheese” borders on megalomania.  Sure, potential exists for other possible uses like getting out of jail in egypt, but examples like this stand in almost insane opposite to “decided my farts smell like toast”.  It’s a matter of depth, ya know?

Now Plurk seems to add another layer to their Twitter clone by color coding their entries based upon what you are actually doing or ‘verbing’.  For instance, If I say “Jimmy feels like enjoying a string cheese”, the word feels gets highlighted to a specific color.  Also, if you want to share a link or a video, it automatically converts the link based upon the url ending.  So a jpg will show up as a mini image in your little plurk.  So it adds just the smallest amount of depth to your twitter-like experience.  It is like a personal mini-tumblr.

Besides, twitter is having massive problems of scale (clicky, you will enjoy).  Now is the time to check out those other services…

Advancements in Rich Media Search on the Web

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Adobe Flash Technology Enhances Search Results for Dynamic Content and Rich Internet Applications, WOW!

Adobe announced today that they are teaming up with Google and Yahoo! to improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs).  Adobe will be providing the search engeines with optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) that currently is undiscoverable by search engines.  “This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won’t need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable — they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.”

What does the future hold for searchable Flash and other RIA content on the Web? Read the full article.