"The new features will be rolling out in the next few days and will be available globally in English. You can try them out today by visiting http://www.google.com/trends and clicking on a 'hot topic,' which in most cases will bring you to a search results page with the new real-time feature."
- Tom Stocky
"Of course, none of this would be possible without the support of our new partners that we're announcing today: Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca — along with Twitter, which we announced a few weeks ago."
- Paul Buchheit
Yep. They shouldn't put the "already existing" results in motion. Fortunately, Friendfeed doesn't move down each updates one by one every time you refresh a page :)
- Jérôme Flipo
The number one Hot Topic is "google real time search."
- aldenoneil
The comment back in May: http://friendfeed.com/dewitt.... So now that it is happened to one of the url shorteners, how do we protect ourselves and our content from the rest? (I fully appreciate that I used tinyurl to squeeze my link into the SMS-sized Twitter window. Irony acknowledged.)
- DeWitt Clinton
Wow: It's one thing if it were a small service, but to shut down tr.im, one of the big ones, is insane. I was thinking about this, and short of banning all URL shorteners (something I figured Google would do eventually for the bad ones, http://marktrapp.com/blog...) I wonder if there'd be a way to have some sort of autodiscovery mechanism for URL...
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- Mark Trapp
I also find it pretty tragic that their response in the comments to people asking for some sort of compromise on getting their data out is "it wasn't supposed to be used this way." Regardless of how they intended the product to be used, people *were* using it in a specific way, and they did absolutely nothing to discourage or stop it. That's the real silliness of URL shorteners: they...
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- Mark Trapp
I still feel Twitter could make url shorteners unnecessary if they chose to.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Shortening URIs is plain evil, respectively expressing design flaws. In the very few cases where it is --was!-- somewhat 'necessary', e.g. to mask affiliate links, a site can easily run its own URI management. In all other cases it's a sign of a faulty site architecture. Every piece of content should be available under one and only one URI, and every URI should point to one and only one...
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- Sebastian
Right. Much better to put asserts in your runtime code just to check the parameter types, right? ; )
- DeWitt Clinton
Yes. But Java's type system and lack of type inference sucks. I never was a fan of strong typing until I learned a language with a sane typesystem, Haskell
- Travis B. Hartwell
Once again people associate Strong Typing with Java as if there are no other languages with type systems. :)
- Ray Cromwell
It is better than reading the documentation and trying to figure out that the method returns a map keyed off string that contains a map keyed off integer that contains a set of criteria statements. Though I think that Scala's type inference mechanism is just plain better.
- Sam Pullara