Google TV Brings Universal Search to Your TV

This year’s keynote presentations at Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference, feature quite a few exciting announcements: from WebM to the Chrome Web Store to Android Froyo. However, Google saved their biggest announcement for the last part of the last keynote: Google TV.

Google’s stated mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Like it or not, a lot of the world’s information still goes through traditional television. Google TV thus hopes to organize that information, by putting traditional television under the dominant information management paradigm of the Web: search. Clunky TV schedule guides could soon become a thing of the past, even for the laziest couch potatoes. Click here to continue reading “Google TV Brings Universal Search to Your TV”…

Tweet My Gaming Tracks Games on Twitter

Now here’s an idea that’s elegant in its simplicity: a realtime feed of video game conversations on Twitter. Not only does Tweet My Gaming catch mentions of games in tweets, it also tracks gaming trends among twitterers. Unsurprisingly, the recently released Sims 3 is about six times hotter than World of Warcraft right now.

Tweet My Gaming comes from the folks behind gamerDNA, a social network for gamers. Gamers are an extremely vocal lot online, so it makes a lot of sense to track gaming trends via social media.