Improvements to Realtime Search

The blogosphere is a dynamic environment that changes almost as quickly as the world that we live in. And as access to information becomes more widespread and more immediate, the blogosphere is steadily closing that gap. That’s why the Blogger Team is excited to spread the word about Google’s new improvements to Realtime Search, which provide richer and fresher results than ever before.

From the new Realtime Search homepage, you can search live updates, recently-published blog posts, and news from around the web in brand new ways. Now you can restrict your search to include just updates from a specific geographic region or just nearby you. You can also check out complete conversations from Twitter. You can also now set up custom alerts for Realtime updates to be sent directly to your inbox once a day or week, or as soon as the happen for instant blog post fodder.

For more information about Realtime’s new features, please visit www.google.com/landing/realtime.

Source : Blogger Buzz

Some terms about Twitter you need to know

A lot of people know Twitter, microblogging by Jack Dorsey MIT graduate, Twitter users can post a short post to communicate with other users on Twitter with characters limit 140 characters. It is very pleasant to communicate and interact with other users in Twitter, but there are some users do not know some important terms in Twitter.

Here are some of the terms contained in Twitter :

Tweet : The term post on Twitter, limited to 140 character.
Follow : To Tweet on Twitter users to follow specific.
Follower : Twitter users who follow update your Tweet.
Mentions (@) : Code for Calling the twitter id of others, eg: @ jurnalborneo
Reply : Reply to Tweet others.
Trending Topic (TT) : the most popular topics discussed.
Retweet (RT) : Repeats the contents Tweet others.
Hashtag (#) : A sign for a particular topic.

What Is Twitter ?

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, 'What are you doing?' by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called 'tweets', to your friends, or 'followers'. Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., that enables its users to send and read other users' messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page.

Tweets are publicly visible by default, however senders can restrict message delivery to their friends list. Users may subscribe to other author tweets this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers. The short format of the tweet is a defining characteristic of the service, allowing informal collaboration and quick information sharing that provides relief from rising email and IM fatigue.

Twittering is also a less gated method of communication: you can share information with people that you wouldn't normally exchange email or IM messages with, opening up your circle of contacts to an ever-growing community of like-minded people.

All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as, for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. The website is based out in San Bruno, California near San Francisco (where the website was first based). Twitter also has servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.

So, make your twitter account right now. Do not worry, couse it is free. Sign up now on twitter web on, Twitter.com. Hope you enjoyed and happy tweet everyday, everytime and everywhere you want it.