Saw this when playing with WikiScanner this afternoon - someone in Ryanair edited a Wikipedia article on Dublin’s Southside to say that Eamon DeValera was a crook!
Poor Eamon will be turning in his grave!
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Overnight Google added search functionality to Google Reader.
What is amazing is that it took so long for an ostensibly search-related company to add this to the Reader.
Having said that, the search functionality rolled out is extensive allowing searching of individual feeds, all feeds, or by folder lavel.
If you don’t see this functionality in your reader account, try logging out and logging back in again.
Another bit of previously available functionality I missed is the ability to collapse the left-hand sidebar with just the keyclick u (as in the image above) and the ability to call up a list of keyboard shortcuts just by clicking ?
Google Reader is getting better and better. It is now my main reader and has helped me enormously in being more efficient in my feed reading. Google Reader’s only serious competition, Bloglines needs to do something drastic or it will lose out completely to Google.
Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom have released details of €5m worth of investment they have received. Cubic Telecom is the parent company of the Roam4free and Yak4ever brands.
From the release Cubic has raised a
EUR3.5M investment from private backers in order to develop a suite of innovative global mobile and home phone products under the Cubic Telecom brand, together with its own international virtual carrier network. A further EUR1.5M has been raised to fund a series of international launches of products and services in the coming six months.
As I mentioned a few weeks back, Cubic Telecom are also the only Irish company to make it to the final 100 of the uber prestigious TechCrunch 20.
Facebook apps are the hot thing at the minute. Everyone who has any kind of a Web 2.0 site has either created one or is in the process of.
When I saw this morning that Google were after creating a Facebook app, I was quite curious. According to the article:
Google made a lovely app for Facebook that lets you search the web and share the results with your friends. Your queries are automatically included in Facebook’s mini-feed, so your web history can be shared with your friends. There’s also a page that showcases popular results found by other Facebook users.
Interesting (and potentially dangerous!) - unfortunately when I clicked on the link I was presented with the following screen:
Anyone know what’s going on there?
Google upgraded their amazing Google Earth application overnight to now include the objects in the night sky as well (Google Earth & Sky!).
The Sky part of the application holds a host of information about stars, planets and constellations.
I’m a little confused though as to how Manhattan island appears to have been re-positioned near the Gemini Constellation in my Mac-based Google Earth (but not on the PC curiously).
My friends in Manhattan will be surprised 
One of the issues with Twitter has always been, apart from straining your eyes looking at the photos in the sidebar on people’s profiles, there was no way to find people you wanted to add as friends.
Twitter solved that yesterday with the addition of a Search box.
How did that functionality take so long to roll out?
Having done a search on Twitter, the results (depending on your search term obviously) look like the following:
Now, if only they would roll out a search Tweets!
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