Caprica

I just can’t wait for Caprica to start, hopefully Zoe Graystone can hold me over.

Twitter Search to Become “Discovery Engine”

Today Twitter co-founder Biz posted a blog post outlining the details of their new “Discovery Engine,” which is basically search built into your home page.

Apparently the folks at Twitter have realized that search.twitter.com isn’t the greatest implementation of search ever and want to change that.

Biz says that currently, a small number of Twitter users are already trying the new search feature in the sidebar of their Twitter home page and that when they do a search the relevant tweets instantly show up right on their home page.

Twitter has also commented on the “save” search feature, allowing you to save searches you’ll do regularly and trends, which is basically the same thing you get currently on search.twitter.com.

The only disappointing bit of news is that it’s not set for a scheduled release and will be available “as soon as possible.”

Digg Launches DiggBar, StumbleUpon-ish Toolbar

Today Digg announced that they’ll begin rolling out a new product they’re calling the DiggBar.

According to Digg, the DiggBar allows you to:

1. Digg directly on the destination site: No more awkward toggling between the story page and Digg.
2. Easily share stories: You can now create a shortened Digg URL to share on Twitter, Facebook or via email. You can also type digg.com/ before the URL of any page you’re on to create a short URL.
3. Access additional analytics: See how many times a story has been viewed.
4. View comments while on the story page: Clicking the ‘Comments’ button expands the DiggBar to show the top comment, latest comment, and most controversial without leaving the page.
5. Discover related stories: Clicking the ‘Related’ button expands the DiggBar to highlight similar stories.
6. See more stories from the same source: Clicking the ‘Source’ button expands the DiggBar to show you more Digg stories from that source site.
7. Discover random stories: Click the ‘Random’ button and you’ll be brought to an entirely new, unexpected story.

Digg has also published a video of Digg founder Kevin Rose talking about the new DiggBar.

For now the DiggBar also includes a feedback button so you can tell them how it is and they’ve also hinted at some big changes to Digg search and the inclusion of using Digg urls automatically in Twhirl.

At first glance the DiggBar certainly looks similar to StumbleUpon’s new download-less toolbar and might mean certain death for StumbleUpon’s rumored short-url service su.pr, Digg might have once again one-uped the competition.

Twits That’ll Teach You Something

Today Mashable posted a list of 18 People to Follow for a Real Time Education, the list was kind of long, so here it is in a nut shell:

• @cspenn
• @JOHNABYRNE
• @jowyang
• @Kanter
• @MarketingProfs
• @chrisbrogan
• @PRsarahevans
• @missrogue
• @mediaphyter
• @jayrosen_nyu
• @laureltouby
• @Meryl333
• @shelisrael
• @2020science
• @levyj413
• @chrisheuer
• @brianstelter
• @fec139

I can’t make any promises to teach you anything, but it would be great if you followed @Duhh too!

Buzz Opens to Everyone

Buzz, Yahoo’s effort to annihilate Digg and AOL’s Propeller has finally upened up the the public. Untill now content could only be added from sites that used Yahoo Publisher Network ads, allowing Yahoo to test the waters and filter out smaller spam sites easily.

Unfortunately for Buzz it’s hardly compairable to Digg or Propeller due to Yahoo’s persistance to add editorial discretion to reduce gaming, but the rush of server downing traffic caused when Yahoo publishes the stories to their homepage more than makes up for the extra trouble of making your story popular.

You can submit news stories to Yahoo! Buzz here.