Twitter
Google has launched real-time search with default search page itself. Previously it was a separate search named Google realtime search. The real-time search aims at provided the latest updates and news as it happens. It is conceptually same as using a RSS feed for a search item. The real-time search integrates results mainly from the twitter website.
Diaspora,the new opensource alternative for facebook.Diaspora's blog claims it is a aggregator of twitter,facebook,flickr and many more with extendable plugin framework. Its also says it will use GPG for a secure sharing. Diaspora will be opensourced on Sept 15 and source can be found at GitHub.
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Twitter has become popular with many of us recently. Most of us are too lazy to use the web interface to do a update. So there are options like twitter for firefox, twitgin for pidgin and so on. But still most of are CLI oriented and rarely visit the GUI. I am one such guy. So when I came to hear about Twitter API, I was excited and started to write a simple python script to update to Twitter. You can find the version 1 of the script in this post.
