Wired.com: Twitter URL Service Bit.ly Says No to Ads, Yes to Data-Mining News
Monday, 10 August 2009, 14:59
"[Bit.ly is] going to mine those links to create a real-time news service that would work somewhat like Twitter trends, except that it would track the hottest links rather than the most-used words. The result would be a Digg-like news service comprised of links determined to be important by bit.ly’s analysis engine."
Techcrunch: Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 15:05
"Bit.ly’s new Bit.ly Now service will show popular links at any given time, just like Digg (for now, Bit.ly sends the most popular link every hour to a twitter account). When Bit.ly Now launches, that link data will be combined with additional metadata about the URLs. In particular, they plan to extract important entities, people and topics from the stories in real time, allowing for a categorized approach to popular links. Bit.ly says they are talking to a number of third party services, including Reuter’s Open Calais, to help them do this."
louisgray.com: Are Your Writing Your Headlines for Google or for Twitter?
Sunday, 12 April 2009, 21:44
"Now, instead of using the catchy headlines we once saw in print, or keyword-laden headlines that make Google giddy, we're now seeing headlines truncated to less than 140 characters, or even as low as 125 characters as the standard, assuming a short URL follows."
Publishing 2.0: How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links
Sunday, 12 April 2009, 15:13
"The debate over whether Google’s excerpting content on its search result pages is a violation of copyright law, i.e. whether Google is effectively stealing content, overlooks the much more valuable asset that Google is appropriating. Google makes money less by its ability to display that snipet of content and much more by its ability to know that snipet of content is relevant to what the content consumer is looking for — it makes money by its ability to efficiently distribute that content."
