See this Amp at http://bit.ly/9nwOx7
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Intimacy drives commerce. Let that sink in for a bit.
Assertion #1: Facebook doesn’t get Intimacy.
ASSERTION #2: The stuff that’s really valuable in my social graph tends to the extremes — very public (ex: Twitter) or very private (ex: email).
ASSERTION #3: Intimacy depends on Context, Connection, & Continuity… which determine Closeness… and ultimately, drive Commerce.Read more at 500hats.typepad.com
Maybe this could explain the odd behavior of some Twitterfountains displaying only English-text tweets. Then again, maybe not.
Twitter has finally left the old Summize architecture out to dry (it started working on the new architecture 6 months ago), and instead has built the new search on the open source Lucene platform, with some of its own enhancements that lead to:
- significantly improved garbage collection performance
- lock-free data structures and algorithms
- posting lists, that are traversable in reverse order
- efficient early query termination