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Saturday, December 26, 2009 WASHINGTON: Twitter not only wants to know what you're doing it wants to know where you are.The micro-blogging service announced Wednesday that it has purchased Mixer Labs, a California-based startup that builds location-tracking tools."We want to know What's happening?, and more precisely, Where is it happening?" Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said in a blog post."As a dramatic example, twittering "Earthquake!" alone is not as informative as "Earthquake!" coupled with your current location," Williams said."When current location is added to tweets, new and valuable services emerge -- everything from breaking news to finding friends or local businesses can be dramatically enhanced," he added.Twitter did not disclose financial details of the acquisition.Mixer Labs is the creator of GeoAPI, which helps software developers build geolocation-aware applications.San Francisco-based Twitter has won tens of...

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 LONDON: Twitter has had quite a year. Not only has it attracted worldwide attention and millions of new users, "Twitter" has been named the top word in the English language for 2009.According to the Global Language Monitor, which examines language usage across the world, "Twitter" beat out "Obama," "H1N1," "stimulus," and "vampire" to take the crown. Interestingly, "2.0" came in at sixth place."In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a pandemic, the aftereffects of a financial tsunami, and the death of a revered pop icon, the word 'Twitter' stands above all the other words," Paul JJ Payack, president of Global Language Monitor, said Sunday in a statement. "Twitter represents a new form of social interaction, where all communication is reduced to 140 characters. Being limited to strict formats did wonders for the sonnet and haiku. One wonders where th...