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Use WordPress to Create a Searchable Archive of Your Tweets
“Once you put it out on the Web, it’s always exists.”
“Oh yeah, well then why can’t I find what I’m looking for?”
If you put anything of significance on Twitter or just want to keep a copy of everything for yourself, you’ll probably want to keep a copy of your Tweets. Between Twitter’s downtime or “Older tweets are temporarily unavailable.”, off-loading from Twitter seems best. Previously mentioned applications like Sharetronix or Status.Net allows you to establish a micro-blogging system running off your own server. That’s one approach but many people are on Twitter for one reason or another and don’t want to switch. A better setup would be to continue using Twitter as is but archiving the individual tweets. Here’s how I’m accomplishing that using WordPress 3.0.
Gmail Prioritizes Your Inbox
Gmail will be rolling out a beta service called Priority Inbox to all Gmail users over the next week. You can check out the new service once the red ‘New! Priority Inbox’ link shows up in the top-right corner of your Gmail.
Priority Inbox will work by adding three different sections to your Inbox: first for important messages, second for starred, and third for everything else.
The service will automatically elevate messages as they come in from the ‘Everything else’ to the ‘Important’ section based on criteria like how frequently you open those messages or how often you e-mail the sender. It will also learn as it goes, much like the spam filter.
Google Updates Google Calendar’s Look, Adds Scheduling Assistant
Google Calendar updates are rolling out. Announced yesterday, the changes include updating the repeating event editor, a scheduling assistant to find free times for meeting participants, and for Google Apps, you’re now able to set working hours. The update also includes, we’re told, significant updates to the code behind the scenes to improve performance and consistency.
Google Makes A Newscast Out of Google Trends
Google has started a channel on YouTube to cover the hottest Google Search trends for the past week. The channel uses Google Trends and Google Insights for Search as their source of information. Here’s the first video:
You can find the weekly updating channel at www.youtube.com/googlebeat.
Digg Launches a More Social Digg with Version 4
Digg‘s latest iteration, version 4, went live today to the public. It sports an overhauled look that gives an updated appearance and puts more emphasis on the social side of the site. Digg is a news submission site where all the coolest things on the Internet can be found. They have now made that experience more customizable by following certain profiles and seemingly have made being followed a higher priority. I’m sure there are many changes and improvements I haven’t even found yet with this update.
Google Offers VoIP Right in Gmail
US users of Gmail will be getting a new feature in their inbox, the ability to make and receive calls right inside of Gmail. This seems like a perfectly predictable expansion of the Google Voice service and chat/video chat already offered within Gmail. Google seems to think it’s a natural evolution of society going by their promo YouTube vid:
The change was announced earlier today and will be rolling out over the next few days. Calls to US and Canada are free for the rest of the year and other countries are charged a low rate.
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