Twitter plans to cut the noise out of trending topics ... but how?
Download Squad Nov 06 09
Filed under: Social Software, Microblogging
Have you ever actually clicked on any of Twitter's trending topics? I don't want to sound like the old guy telling whippersnappers to get off his lawn, but trying to read almost any Twitter trend gives me a headache. There's so much spam with popular hashtags attached that even people who care about the trends aren't getting a great user experience. Twitter realizes this, and they're going to do something to cut down the noise. The precise something that Twitter intends to do isn't really clear. Biz Stone's blog post is full of ambiguous language: "We're working to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful. Full story...More stories from download squad »
Silobreaker offers alternative search service for news and current affairs
Download Squad just under two hours ago
Filed under: News, Freeware, Search, Web
Who do you think of when you want to search for what's happening now? Increasingly people are searching social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and Google has increased the speed of its index to offer more up-to-date real-time information.
Get rich quick by extorting university student pirates!
Download Squad 2 hours ago
Filed under: Fun, Internet
In what must surely be a sign that schools and universities are under-funded, a network security dude at the University of Georgia has just been arrested for shaking down multiple file-downloading students.Firebug web development extension comes to Google Chrome
Download Squad 18 hours ago
Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Productivity
Firebug is one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox: it's a web development tool that highlights elements in a page's HTML source, allows for live editing of CSS, and more.Listary spruces up Windows find-as-you-type
Download Squad 18 hours ago
Filed under: Utilities
Here's a Windows tip for you, in case you didn't already know it: If you open up an Explorer window and start typing up the first few letters of a folder or filename, selection will immediately jump there.Firefox 4 gets animated: New videos show slight browser tab changes
Download Squad 18 hours ago
Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers
We've already seen some photo mockups showing a few of the changes that could appear in Firefox 4.Google Stream? Google will launch "huge" new social features tomorrow
Download Squad 19 hours ago
Filed under: Google, Social Software, web 2.0, Microblogging
Google is working on something mysterious that has to do with Gmail and social networking, but the details are still under wraps.Liquid Scale removes unwanted picture parts to resize images on your iPhone
Download Squad 20 hours ago
Filed under: Photo, Commercial, Imaging Tips, iPhone
Liquid Scale is an iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows you to resize images by removing unimportant elements in the photo, leaving the important ones untouched.
Universal sues Grooveshark music service
Download Squad 20 hours ago
Filed under: Business, P2P
Grooveshark is a fantastic music service; it lets you immediately listen to almost any song or album you can think of.Microsoft and Facebook renegotiate advertising and Bing integration
Download Squad 21 hours ago
Filed under: Business, News, Microsoft, Social Software
Microsoft and Facebook have worked together for two and a half years now, with Microsoft selling display ads on the social network.
Adobe says Flash performance on Mac to rival Windows in Flash 10.1
Download Squad 21 hours ago
Filed under: News, Adobe, Apple, Analysis
I almost (not quite, but almost) feel bad for Adobe right now.
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