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Twitter

We couldn’t see it ourselves on our accounts, but now co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed the changes in a blog post, calling the new feature a ‘discovery engine’.

With the redesign, the search box has moved to the right sidebar of the interface (only for a small subset of users at this point), where Stone claims it’s a more ‘natural part of the Twitter experience’. I agree, and it shows that the company realizes very well that real-time search is a killer feature they should be nurturing and monitoring very closely. When you do a search, the results no longer appear on a separate page but remain on the homepage, and by default it only crawls the tweets from the accounts you’re following.

You can also save search queries and revisit the results at a later time. Since the searches you save stay on your homepage, this feature makes it a lot easier for people to keep track of conversations around a given topic (e.g. a brand, event or person) and also sort of makes the plethora of third-party monitoring tools obsolete for basic queries. We’ll have to see how this will affect the applications that are currently centered around monitoring Twitter conversations (take for instance, the Yahoo Sideline desktop app we covered yesterday), but it’s clear that the more emphasis Twitter puts on that, the less relevant they become.

Twitter is also going to display popular trending topics below the search box, which will in turn make it easier for people to discover what the Twitterverse is talking about the most at any given time. Stone reminds us Trends is in beta, but like he says, it has potential.

Meanwhile, a lot of people are still reporting missing tweets and direct messages, a problem that’s been lingering for several weeks now.

In Italy D’Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli, BBDO have launched the new agency website. Very very -2.0…The interface is conceived like an MS-DOS screen, and you have to type commands to access the sub-sections. My favourite part is the loader, with the 56K modem sounds.

The MS-DOS interface is a very nice idea, probably not very usable, but surely creative. The problem, in my opinion, is that such an interface is like an implicit declaration of “we are so much a traditional agency”. Take Modernista, for example, they did exactly the opposite, and I like them better, of course but, you know, I’m a geek girl

Six cool business uses for Twitter

Thanks to MTV , Nolita, Saket and his team. I designed the  http://www.colorstv.in/ website. which is up live and running successfully since a year now. It was a combined effort of all the Chuntey people. The first version of this website when it went live was pretty static, then in phase two we migrated to a completely CMS driven website. with lots of other features being added. like background change and ajax controller for polling and sending feeds etc….It was a fun to work project. though Saket never liked it.