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Sampad Swain explores Marketing, Social Media and Technology trends, strategies and its impact on Business, Culture & us

7 Ways Twitter’s Ranking of Content & Link Can Change The Web

May 07, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Microblogging, Trend Spotting, Web 2.0

Today’s big news is that twitter is thinking to consider crawling of content and links (that are included in tweets) and begin to index those pages. Also Twitter Search will also get a reputation ranking system, which will take into account the reputation of the person who wrote each tweet and rank search results in [...]

Twitter Search on Track to Give Google A Real-Time Search Fight

May 07, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Tech 2.0, Trend Spotting, Web 2.0

Twitter is the most hottest startup right now and most promising too. More so, it’s realtime search tool is also one of the reason that most companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and many more peg it in high regards.
Twitter Search is primarily meant to index your apt search query from mundane updates to apt filtered [...]

Can Facebook Lexicon Give Twitter Search Run For their Money?

March 23, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Marketing, Social Networking, Web 2.0

About a year back, Facebook launched its new trending service like Google Trends or Technorati called Lexicon. Now things have moved on from that and its all new lexicon went live which gives some very interesting and nifty results to look at.

By Definition: Lexicon is a tool to follow language trends across Facebook. Specifically, Lexicon [...]

Google Can Outpace Twitter in Realtime Search

March 13, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Online Marketing, Random Thoughts, Tech 2.0

So many talks about twitter outpacing google in realtime information. True in some cases! But I set on to find out if Google can do it better than Twitter too (since I’ve been using for more than a decade – call it loyalty or whatever!)
It seems that Google can. Funny it is in some way [...]

Errr! Twitter Logo Shrinked! Is it Revenue Model Version 0.1?

February 03, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Microblogging, Random Thoughts

Just saw that Twitter UI’s logo has been shrinked to roughly 50% than its original logo. See the screenshot below:

This was the earlier Twitter logo- screenshot below:

Is it the start of twitter trying to monetize its interface? Now this happened in the wake of twitter subtly announcing that it will reveal its monetizing plans in [...]

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