In today's Digital Dispatch:
Google’s Real-Time Search Results Get Their Own Homepage (paidContent.org)
On the new Google site, which you can visit here, users can refine their searches to see what people are posting from a specific location and also track how conversations on a social site are unrolling.
Google Buys Innovative Startup Angstro to Help Build GoogleMe (ReadWriteWeb)
...It means that Google's entry into social networking is going to be big, ambitious and probably engage heavily with the data-portability paradigm that has positioned itself as the strategic antithesis of Facebook.
California Pre-Schoolers Getting Tracking Devices (techdirt)
...The idea is that this will "free up teachers and administrators who previously had to note on paper files when a child was absent or had eaten."
Older Adults and Social Media (Pew Internet)
...Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.
Phone Numbers Are Dead, They Just Don’t Know It Yet (TechCrunch)
...We don’t have this choice on the phone network today. Anyone can dial my number, and I can’t control it—but I do control my interaction on a social network.
Find out what’s hot on search with the Google Beat (Official Google Blog)
...We’re introducing a new way to find out—a regular video series called the Google Beat that highlights some of the hottest searches on Google in the U.S.
MIT unveils autonomous, oil-skimming robots (BGR)
Yesterday, MIT showcased an oil-skimming, autonomous robot dubbed the Seaswarm. As the devices site explains, “Seaswarm uses a photovoltaic powered conveyor belt made of a thin nanowire mesh to propel itself and collect oil.”
Lighter side: Seinfeld' Actor Jerry Stiller Visits Real Residents of the Costanza Home, Everyone Feels Warm, Fuzzy (urlesque)
...The New York Daily News made the journey to Astoria with Jerry Stiller, the actor who played George Costanza's cantankerous father Frank, to pay an unannounced visit to the home they used on the show.
About Digital Dirk's Dispatches
Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily to bring you the Digital Dispatch—a compilation of the most important and interesting tech news for consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.
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