| Android Market Developer Outage Continues, Test Apps Showing Up in Wild The Android Developer Console has been experiencing numerous issues and outages over the past several days, Google confirms. As of this morning, these problems remain unresolved. Beginning March 31st, many Android developers began reporting trouble accessing the Developer Console, Google's backend system that allows for the publication of Android Market applications and updates to existing apps. In the official Android Market Help Forum, developers said they've encountered error messages, problems with data and statistics not updating and failures in loading application lists. However, Google tells us that the problem is only affecting "some" developers.
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Twitter to Offer Brand Pages Like Facebook's, Report Says Twitter is developing a new kind of profile page for business accounts, similar to Facebook Pages, reports London-based Sarah Shearman of BrandRepublic tonight, based on conversations with multiple unnamed sources familiar with the plans. Shearman's report indicates that the pages will provide more space for brands to communicate with their visitors, outside of the structure of 140 character messages and the small fields currently offered on account profile pages. "Chief Executive Dick Costolo, and Adam Bain, president of revenue, are leading the push to create fresh revenue streams," Shearman writes. Marketers we spoke to tonight expressed support for the idea; Twitter has not yet responded to our request for comment.
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UX Evolutions: Pandora Inside Cars For online radio service Pandora, the car was a logical place to take their web app. At a SXSW Interactive panel on connected cars, Jessica Steel of Pandora noted that radio is already a well established experience inside a car. "50% of all radio listening happens in the car," she said, so it was "a really important strategic destination" to bring Pandora into the vehicle. This is the fourth post in our series looking at how the user experience (UX) of consuming media has changed with the increasing popularity of devices other than the PC. So far we've looked at music on smartphones, news apps on the iPad and RSS Readers on smartphones. Today we go well outside the traditional PC world, where the Web has only just begun to make inroads: the car.
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Meet The 5 Finalists of the Data 2.0 Startup Pitch Last week, 25 selected applicants presented to a "group of peers and investors" at the Data 2.0 Pitch Day. From that crop of startups, only five made it past the judges. Today, those five startups took the stage at the Data 2.0 conference in San Francisco to battle for the crown of Data 2.0. What do they win? Well, nothing tangible, unless you count being the favorite of a well-versed group of VCs and one Robert Scoble to be a tangible prize.
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Have Issues With Big Data? Check Out These 5 Data-as-a-Service Startups Data is big. By that, we mean that there's not only a lot of data, but handling all that data is a problem that everyone from small businesses on up to the big boys, like Google and Facebook, has to tackle in one way or another. To help with the problem of handling Big Data, Dealmaker Media has announced a group of startups that it says are "providing answers to all your database problems in unique and innovative ways."
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Facebook Pushes Location: Adds Event Check-Ins, Places Maps If you've ever thrown a party and invited all your friends on Facebook, then you're well aware: RSVPs mean nothing. If you're on the other end of things and you want to know whether a party's happening or a dud - again, RSVPs mean nothing. Today, Facebook updated its iPhone app, adding two new features - the ability to check in to events and a map for seeing where all your friends are checked in. Now, if you're wondering if that party's happening or not, you might be able to just look and see if your friends have checked in there. Of course, that all depends on whether or not Facebook can really bring location to a critical mass of popularity. While that still seems to be a big "if," this update is certainly a push in that direction.
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Twitter Continues to Friendly Things Up for New Users Since its redesign last September, Twitter has said time and again that the site is not just for those who Tweet, but for those who consume. To that end, the company has worked to make it easier and easier for new users to find information related to their interests, with features like the "who to follow" page. Today, Twitter announced another feature to help onboard new users - search that makes it easier to find and follow Twitter accounts based on interest. The improved search comes alongside another new feature - the advanced search page - which takes the various operators that have always been available to Twitter users and makes them easily accessible in a Web form.
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Twitter Announces Fire Hose Marketplace: Up to 10k Keyword Filters for 30 Cents! Like a prism to a ray of sunlight, stream-hacking startup Mediasift CEO Nick Halstead took the stage today with Twitter's Ryan Sarver at the Data 2.0 conference to announce Twitter's second data resales channel partnership. Halstead's service will allow customers to parse the full Twitter fire hose along any of the 40 fields of data hidden inside every Tweet, with the addition of augmented data layers from services including Klout (influence metrics), PeerIndex (influence), Qwerly (linked social media accounts) and Lexalytics (text and sentiment analysis). Storage, post-processing and historical snapshots will also be available. The price? Dirt cheap. Halstead told me after the announcement that customers would be able to apply as many as 10,000 keyword filters to the fire hose for as little as 30 cents an hour. The most computationally expensive filtering Mediasift will offer won't be priced above $8k per year. (Pricing approximate but indicative, Halstead says.) What does this mean? It means that far more developers than ever before will now have a stable, officially approved and very affordable way to access highly targeted slices of data. Twitter just found a way to hand developers an Amazon River's worth of golden tinker-toys, each with more than 40 points of contact, at commodity prices.
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3taps Wants to Democratize the Exchange of Data The Web is awash in "exchange data" - from apartment listings on Craigslist to job listings on LinkedIn, Monster and Twitter. There are handcrafted goods on Etsy and real estate offerings on Zillow. But each site offers its own method for hosting similar data, with the end user left to visit each site to access it. For developers, the data is often held captive and inaccessible. Greg Kidd, founder and CEO of 3taps, argues that this data "should be available to the public" and is launching a "Data Commons" to do just that. 3taps is launching today at the Data 2.0 conference in San Francisco, offering a platform for collecting a distributing exchange data, in an attempt to "democratize the exchange space."
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Patent Protection? Google Bids Nearly $1 Billion for Nortel's Patents Our current patent system is a mess, many industry observers contend, and the number of patent lawsuits currently underway regarding technology IP borders on the ridiculous. To say that everyone is suing everyone doesn't feel like much of an exaggeration. Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, RIM, Motorola, Google, and more - all suing or being sued. For its part, Google has long tried to take the moral higher ground, if you will, criticizing patent trolls (those who buy patents in order to file suits and profit without actually developing the technology themselves). Google has argued that the current patent system stifles innovation. Indeed, the company has found itself on the receiving end of plenty of lawsuits, most notably in recent months, by Oracle, which is accusing Google of infringing on the company's Java patents in the development of Android. That history makes Google's announcement today a little surprising, perhaps. Google says it is spending almost a billion dollars in a bid to acquire patent rights from Nortel, which filed for bankruptcy in 2009.
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