Twitter Highlights Local Tweets
Twitter is pushing location-based tweets as user numbers reach 75 million.
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David Talbot
Follow @twitterapiChief Correspondent
I’m MIT Technology Review's chief correspondent, keeping an eye most often on the world of information and communication technologies—and asking my kids when I don’t understand what’s going on. Recent projects have taken me to Kenya to write about mobile-phone-based health initiatives, and Germany to explore how they’ll ramp up renewable power while closing down nuclear plants. My 2008 feature on the Obama campaign’s social-networking operation was selected for The Best Technology Writing 2009.
David Talbot's Stories
Scott Brown, Voter Databases, and Social Media
The DNC's vaunted voter databases failed to help Democrats on Election Day.
How Google Ranks Tweets
Algorithms judge the relevance of microblog posts containing 140 characters or less.
Charting the Real-Time Web
Now social media has the equivalent of the Times Square "deficit clock."
Security in the Ether
Information technology's next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud--and prove we can trust it.
Google Takes Search Real-Time
Search giant compresses the time frame of its results from minutes to seconds.
A Place to Complain about Internet Privacy
Campaign takes shape to gather complaints and get Congress to pass privacy laws.
Searching Facebook More Intimately
Cuil indexes your Facebook network and produces results based on your social connections.
Self-Policing Cloud Computing
IBM security tool searches for and destroys malicious code in the cloud.
Searching an Encrypted Cloud
Researchers are working on ways to make encrypted data easier to find.
