¿Sería un perro sin pelo la mejor mascota para la Casa Blanca? En mi patria, los amantes del perro piensan que sí. Los Amigos de los Perros sin pelo del Perú ofrecen a la familia Obama un cachorro que se llama “Macchu Picchu.”

    

    

Esta raza de perro fue la favorita entre los Incas y ha sido reconocida oficialmente como patrimonio nacional del Perú.

Fotos de Luimi-sng, GitanoLatino, MatthewA, *laikanet*, y lente20052000.

      
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Cada año, en el Faro de Pigeon Point en la costa del Condado de San Mateo en California el lente de Fresnel se enciende en una celebración especial. Y, por supuesto, los miembros de Flickr estaban allí el sábado por la noche para capturar el evento.

Fotos de PhotoBud, moucri, aktse y maxxsmart. Puedes buscar más o visita el grupo del Faro de Pigeon Point: Pigeon Point Lighthouse.

      
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Three years ago during my time as CEO of Odeo, I was lucky to be working with a software engineer Jack Dorsey who wasn't afraid to bring up an idea he'd been thinking about for a long time. What if a simple status message was the format for a social communication service? We were exploring various options for Odeo at the time and experimenting with SMS, so the idea was intriguing. Jack teamed up with Biz Stone to design a prototype. This simple idea called Twitter proved increasingly interesting the more we fleshed it out.

After my company Obvious purchased the assets of Odeo which at the time included Twitter from the shareholders, we decided to form Twitter, Inc as a separate company founded by myself along with Jack and Biz. Jack had by then been leading the project for months with Biz's support, and I was intent on pursuing Obvious. With my blessing, the reigns of Twitter CEO were handed to Jack and I accepted a position as Chairman of the Board.

Rising quickly to the challenge, Jack took Twitter through an order of magnitude of growth and two major rounds of financing, while safely navigating some very rocky waters that would have taken even more experienced leaders down with the ship. Jack is a unique individual with a knack for artful minimalism and simplicity, combined with great vision and ambition. We are indeed fortunate to have his guidance.

Stepping into Different Roles
Jack and I have worked together since the beginning to define a direction and goals for the future of Twitter. I took an active executive role as Chief Product Officer at Twitter. This decision was driven by my enthusiasm and belief that Twitter has huge potential and deserves my full efforts.

We're entering a new phase now and there are new kinds of challenges ahead. Healthy companies acknowledge the need for change even during the best of times. As Twitter grows both internally and externally, we took a good look at our path forward and saw the need for a focused approach from a single leader.

While the board of directors and the company have nothing but praise for where Jack has taken us, we also agree that the best way forward is for Jack to step into the role Chairman, and for me to become CEO. Jack will remain on the board and be closely consulted for all strategic decisions, while I take on day-to-day operations with the support of Biz, Jason, Greg, and the rest of this impressive Twitter team.

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 Thomas Marban (@thomas) tells me his Android Twitter app, Twitroid, will be available for download in the next couple days. Looks pretty hot. (Now, if only I could get me one of those G1s...)

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Rael Dornfest is a famously talented engineer, author, and entrepreneur. Before founding Values of n, Rael served as Chief Technology Officer at O'Reilly Media and is known for his pioneering work on RSS as well being the series editor of O'Reilly's celebrated Hacks books. I met him personally a number of years ago and have always thought he was one of the smartest guys I know.

A short while ago it became clear to Rael that while the innovative personal productivity and information management applications his startup had created were useful products with a loyal following, Values of n was not going to meet its huge expectations as a standalone business.

As an early user, Rael has long been fascinated with Twitter and the unique challenges it presents. He started a conversation with us about how we might work together—and we recognized an amazing opportunity.

Today we're thrilled to announce that Twitter has acquired the assets of Values of n, which include an intelligent sticky-note application as well as a personal productivity application that works over email, SMS, and the Web. Rael has already started adding energy and momentum to the team as a full time Twitter engineer.

Values of n will be shutting down existing products. However, the technology behind the scenes will live on and potentially re-emerge as part of Twitter's systems, services, user experience, or open source libraries. Nothing specific in this regard is planned but there is some smart work in there by the newest member of our engineering team.

Welcome to Twitter, Rael!

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Our tiny robot friend way out there on planet Mars introduced lots of new people to Twitter and sent us back some amazing discoveries. Along the way, he also transformed the way NASA shares science with the world. MarsPhoenix was an amazing use of Twitter that did not go unrecognized and we're happy to have had the chance to share in this historic mission. Alas, when the icy cloak of Martian winter draws darkness across the distant planet, a solar powered robot must say farewell. Sweet dreams little guy!

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Dave Troy has done it again. The guy behind Twittervision has built another compelling tool using Twitter. Twitter Vote Report urges folks to document any problems at the polls tomorrow on Twitter. Here's a news article about it.

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We had these little metal pins made up and we're giving them out tonight!

Looks like @nextinstinct spotted a Twittering voter in the wild!

Ben from Current TV designed this sticker.


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Congratulations @barackobama, it looks like you'll be the first President of the United States to have an official Twitter account. Also, thanks for taking part in an event that had a dramatic effect on Twitter activity and exposure worldwide. Here are some quick stats from yesterday.

• Updates increased 46% from previous Tuesday
• 7p-9p PST updates up 200% compared to same time last week
• Signups on Tuesday were up 40.3%
• Between 7p-9p PST signups were up 96.5% compared to same time last week
• Messages per second peaked almost 3x compared to first debate

And through it all, not a whale in site! Our technical approach over the last several months has been to find the weakest point of the system, fix it so it's no longer the weakest, move to the next weakest point, and so on. This simple technique has vastly improved performance, reliability, and capacity. We've got a lot of work ahead but yesterday certainly gave us hope.

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About 30 seconds in they start bantering about Twitter. Had to put it on the blog for posterity.

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The Reader team is happy to announce that another 20% project has come to fruition: automatic translation in Reader! Post by 20% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.

Believe it or not, the web truly is world-wide. That means there is a lot of interesting content out there in languages other than your own. You might have missed out on this content in the past, but now, with automatic translation in Reader, you don't have to miss a thing!

Next time you find an interesting feed in another language, just subscribe to it as normal in Reader. When you view the feed in Reader, check off "Translate into my language" in the feed settings, and (voila!) the feed will be immediately translated for you. Also, this setting will be saved so you can always view this feed in your own language.

Many thanks go out to the awesome engineers on the Google Translate team, who have provided the technology to make this possible. As they continue to make their translation systems better, you will get to reap the benefits automatically.

Have fun discovering all the great content out there on the truly world-wide web!

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Here's an oldie but a goodie. Confounded by trying to track down fancy looking WordPress themes? Check out this Web based theme editor that lets you tweak every nook and cranny of a theme then spit it back to your server to go live. You can add columns, change fonts and backgrounds, even throw in a customizable tag cloud--all with no coding experience required. All you need is a little creativity and some working knowledge of drop down menus.

While some WordPress themes have excellent built-in support for doing this right from the WordPress dashboard, many more don't, and trying to figure out all the little things like text color is made far easier with a WYSIWYG editor than with WordPress' built-in editing tools.

Advanced users can throw in graphics or design elements they've hosted elsewhere on their server (as long as it's got a URL to link up to), and when all is said and done each bit of the theme can be grabbed as an individual file to whatever theme you're currently using. This is an easy way to try out new fonts and colors without making a mess out of your existing style.css file.

Make a WordPress theme quickly and with zero coding experience necessary with this free tool.

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Posted by Sze-jun Tsai, Consumer Operations Associate

Here's the scenario: you decide to try out a new Gmail feature and suddenly you have some questions. What do you do? Come on down to the Gmail Help Discussion Group.

The Gmail Help Discussion Group is an interactive user forum where Gmail users communicate with one another. You can get quick and easy access to information for troubleshooting technical problems, share your wealth of experience with other users, get a fellow user's perspective on something that is confusing you, or just stay up to date with Gmail -- all through this community forum.

Here are some tips to help you along:

Tip #1: Someone may have already posted about your topic or question, so search or browse for previous threads before posting a new one.

Tip #2: If you're troubleshooting, try to provide as many details as possible. Specific error messages and specific actions that you took can help others understand what you're experiencing and what you've already tried. For instance, if you're having problems sending messages, specify exactly what occurs, any error messages that you receive, and your computing specifications (such as browser type and operating system) to help the group identify if your problem can be easily remedied or if it will require direct assistance from the Gmail team.

Tip #3: Keep an eye out for the "Gmail Groupies," a particularly active and helpful bunch of Gmail users who really enjoy sharing their knowledge and expertise. You can recognize them by scanning previous posts and looking for frequent contributors.

Whether you want to provide other users with help or have a question of your own, you can join the growing community of more than 200,000 members.

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Posted by Darick Tong, Gmail engineer

We Gmail developers are arguably among the most demanding of Gmail's users. So in addition to the feedback we get from all of you, a lot of the ideas for new features come from our own frustrations and experiences. We send and receive a lot of mail, and we've already started using these Labs features to make replying that much better.

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Gmail makes it easy to manage long conversations or threads by hiding the text you've seen before. Unfortunately, this means that the people you're communicating with that aren't using Gmail sometimes get annoyed with you for leaving 25 pages of irrelevant conversation in the email. Also, sometimes you just want to reply to one small part of a conversation. Deleting lots of irrelevant text is rather annoying, so this Labs feature should make your life easier. Just highlight the text you want to include in your reply, hit the keyboard shortcut "r" to reply, and the compose template will be just what you selected! Note: This doesn't quite work in Chrome or Safari yet, but it will in a few weeks.

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When we're working on features for Gmail, the email etiquette on the team is to reply all so everyone involved is kept in the loop. Mark was an intern here this past summer who got frustrated when he'd reply to an email only to realize that he forgot to reply all and had to resend the message. Thus, this Labs feature, which makes reply all your default selection.

Vacation time, by Darick T
While planning my own vacation, I didn't want to worry about composing, starting and stopping my vacation auto-response while I was on vacation. Call me a purist, but that defeats the whole point of being on vacation! So, to make my vacation that much sweeter, I used a bit of my 20% time and whipped up Vacation Time, which lets you compose and schedule your vacation autoresponse while you're planning your vacation, rather than while you're on vacation. And scheduling is as easy as it is in Google Calendar.

So go on, try it, and have a great vacation.

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Posted by Jamie Nicolson, Gmail engineer

From the team that brought you Mail Goggles, here comes...Advanced IMAP Controls, a Labs feature that lets you fine-tune your Gmail IMAP experience. You can choose which labels to sync in IMAP -- useful if you find your mail client choking on a big [Gmail]/All Mail folder.

After enabling this Lab, just go to the Labels tab under Settings. You'll see a new 'Show in IMAP' checkbox next to each of your labels. Uncheck the box and the corresponding folder will disappear from IMAP.


There are also some more obscure options for those of you who want to make Gmail's IMAP work more like traditional IMAP providers: you can turn off auto-expunge or trash messages when they're no longer visible through IMAP.

The IMAP protocol allows messages to be marked for deletion, a sort of limbo state where a message is still present in the folder but slated to be deleted the next time the folder is expunged. In our standard IMAP implementation, when you mark a message as deleted, Gmail doesn't let it linger in that state -- it deletes (or auto-expunges) it from the folder right away. If you want the two-stage delete process, after you've enabled this Lab, just select 'Do not automatically expunge messages' under the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab in Settings.

Similarly, most IMAP systems don't share Gmail's concept of archiving messages (sending messages to the [Gmail]/All Mail folder rather than [Gmail]/Trash). If you'd prefer that deleted messages not remaining in any other visible IMAP folders are sent to [Gmail]/Trash instead, Advanced IMAP Controls lets you set your preferences this way. In the 'IMAP Access:' section of the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab, find the 'When a message is deleted from the last visible IMAP folder:' option. Select 'Move the message to the Gmail Trash.' If you want to take it one step further, you can select 'Immediately delete the message forever.'

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Quick, to the trends!

• Give $25 is trending this morning as meaningful meme makes it's way through Twitter and helps kids with autism along the way.
• Jim Collins, author of Good to Great spoke evidently gave a very impressive presentation at a conference called Catalyst08 and the tweets are backing that up.
• New MacBooks will be introduced by Apple on October 14th and folks are already twittering in anticipation.
• FOWA and it's associated keyword, #fowa are trendy today as a whole bunch of geeks gather in London to discuss the future of web apps.

Yom Kippur and Sarah Palin sit quietly next to each other in the trends list alone with their thoughts. Kippur Palin? That might work!
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Let's start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you have been receiving SMS updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, you'll notice that they've stopped and you may want to explore some of the alternatives we're suggesting.

Note: Updating via our UK number remains fully supported and these changes do not affect users in Canada, India, or the United States.

Before we go into more detail, here's the good news. Twitter will be introducing several new, local SMS numbers in countries throughout Europe in the coming weeks and months. These new numbers will make Twittering more accessible for all the folks who have been using SMS to send long-distance updates through our UK number.

Why Stop Sending SMS To Some Countries?

Mobile operators in most of the world charge users to send updates. When you send one message to Twitter and we send it to ten followers, you aren't charged ten times—that's because we've been footing the bill. When we launched our free SMS service to the world, we set the clock ticking. As the service grew in popularity, so too would the price.

Our challenge during this window of time was to establish relationships with mobile operators around the world such that our SMS services could become sustainable from a cost perspective. We achieved this goal in Canada, India, and the United States. We can provide full incoming and outgoing SMS service without passing along operator fees in these countries.

We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs and take a different approach. If you don't live in Canada, India, or the US, then we recommend receiving your Twitter updates via one of the following methods.

• m.twitter.com works on browser-enabled phones
• m.slandr.net works on browser-enabled phones
• TwitterMail works on email-enabled phones
• Cellity works on java-enabled phones
• TwitterBerry works on BlackBerry brand phones
• Twitterific works on iPhones

Twitter SMS by The Numbers

It pains us to take this measure. However, we need to avoid placing undue burden on our company and our service. Even with a limit of 250 messages received per week, it could cost Twitter about $1,000 per user, per year to send SMS outside of Canada, India, or the US. It makes more sense for us to establish fair billing arrangements with mobile operators than it does to pass these high fees on to our users.

Twitter will continue to negotiate with mobile operators in Europe, Asia, China, and The Americas to forge relationships that benefit all our users. Our goal is to provide full, two-way service with Twitter via SMS to every nation in a way that is sustainable from a cost perspective. Talks with mobile companies around the world continue. In the meantime, more local numbers for updating via SMS are on the way. We'll keep you posted.

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Google has a new iGoogle gadget to keep up with Google blogs.

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Google loves to announce new developments on its host of Google blogs. Keeping up with the blogs is easy, if you're interested in only a small fraction of the online giant's activity, but dealing with the full arsenal of dozens of Google blogs can be taxing.

Google's fix for the plight: more Google technology. The company announced what amounts to a channel changer for its iGoogle customized home page service, a Google blogs gadget that gives quicker access to the full list of Google blogs. Think of it as special-purpose RSS feed reader.

Also new is a site that lists all Google blogs, subdivided into five categories.

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Women's blog network Sugar Inc. has made a surprise move: it's giving users access to its platform so that they can create their own blogs. The San Francisco-based company made the announcement through a post on its tech blog, Geeksugar.

The new system, called OnSugar, promises a "sweet and simple" alternative to services like Google's Blogger and Six Apart's TypePad. Powered by the Drupal open-source platform, it will give bloggers free access to Sugar's tools for creating multiple kinds of posts: regular text posts as well as photo galleries, polls, quotations, videos, and the like (yes, this is a bit like Tumblr).

OnSugar bloggers can also take advantage of shopping widgets from the Sugar-owned ShopStyle, take a cut of the sales, and use images from Getty Images for free. They can also have Sugar import existing blogs on Blogger, WordPress, or TypePad into the OnSugar platform.

This is surprising, given the fact that the industry trend has been to create an ad network to pull in publishers, not a blogging platform. Sugar, which already has loads of user accounts through its social network, TeamSugar, will not be serving any ads yet but rather will let bloggers use the ad network of their choice. That includes the ad network of Glam Media, which is typically talked about as a Sugar competitor.

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ShareThis, a handy little widget that site managers can install to make it easier for readers to share and save Web pages, is preparing for a new release that gives the service Digg-like powers.

The service's user interface, which lets people post items they like to dozens of services, such as Digg, Twitter, Delicious, and plain old e-mail, is also getting a graphical and performance refresh designed to make it simpler to use. (See story, "ShareThis and the stealth business model," for a look at the current version of the product.)

The real power is the new ShareThis page that reports on what people are sharing with their friends. As I said, there's a Digg-like element to this. But while Digg only ranks the stories that people send to Digg, ShareThis can track what people are sending to Digg, Reddit, MySpace, and dozens of other services. Also, ShareThis is egalitarian--the ShareThis button appears on every story on more than 60,000 sites, CEO Tim Schigel claims.

The service will also soon get new group features. When you're in the process of sharing a story, it will also show you other similar stories that your friends (people you've shared with in the past) have also shared. Schigel has commissioned research that shows that adding general-sharing functions to a site increases readership by 3 percent and that ShareThis in particular does so by 6 percent.

New, improved pop-up ShareThis menu.

If people begin to use the ShareThis aggregation page to find sites and stories to read, it will kick off a virtuous cycle of site managers installing the widget to get onto the aggregation page, and the aggregation page potentially driving traffic back to the sites.

ShareThis can also provide analytics on sharing, showing site managers which stories are the most shared and what services they are shared on. (I'd love to get this data for my work.)

The service also has a browser plug-in for FireFox, but the product's real power comes from the widget that publishers are voluntarily installing in their site templates.

There are other sharing widgets out there, like AddThis, but I continue to be impressed by ShareThis. It's unobstrusive and functional. Site managers seem to be adopting it as the default sharing widget on new and existing sites. And now the company is planning to leverage that growth in a new and interesting direction. It's smart.

What remains to be seen is whether the company will succeed financially. Schigel explained his revenue ideas to me in a meeting in January, and repeated them last week when we met again. But he still hasn't turned them on. I'm concerned that he may be building a powerful and important online service that won't actually make any money; in my opinion, companies should begin beta testing their business models as soon as their product begins to attract loyal users.

The new ShareThis will show you how many times the things you share are shared by others. There will also be a Digg-like page showing what's being shared around the Web.

ShareThis plans to put the updated service into very limited private beta on October 6. First 100 people to e-mail beta@sharethis.com with "Webware: beta" in the subject will get access to some of the new functionality at that time, through a Firefox plug-in.

Try the current version of ShareThis with this blog post: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=86f2a2ea-64ba-4b64-8ee4-d0df38263cb0"></script>

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Google has a new iGoogle gadget to keep up with Google blogs.

(Credit: Google)

Google loves to announce new developments on its profusion of official blogs. Keeping up with the blogs is easy--if you're interested in only a small fraction of the online giant's activity. But dealing with the full arsenal of dozens of Google blogs can be taxing.

Google's fix for the plight: more Google technology. The company announced late Sunday what amounts to a channel changer for its iGoogle customized home page service, a Google blogs gadget that gives quicker access to the full list of Google blogs. Think of it as special-purpose RSS feed reader.

Also new is a site that lists all Google blogs, subdivided into five categories.

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On Wednesday night Facebook previewed the next version of its popular iPhone application, which has retained one of the top spots in Apple's app store since its launch in early July. The new version is a complete overhaul and shares much in common with the re-design of Facebook itself--a move that could be paving the way for mobile advertising and applications later on down the road.

The biggest addition in version 2.0 is support for real-time push status updates, including integration with the service's messaging and live chat. At the time of launch users will be getting these updates only while the application is running, with the push notifications coming when Apple flips that switch--presumably in a software update in late September (as promised).

For those using the application as a communications hub the inter-network mail system has also been given an overhaul, letting you search through messages by words or entire phrases. It also pulls in the entirety of your in-box as opposed to the current version which only lets you see the 30 most recent messages.

Between these two enhancements and an improved news feed that better integrates media and shared links, the next version should be far more compelling. Anxious users will have to wait until sometime next month to get their hands on it though. Below I've bundled together all the screenshots, courtesy of Facebook. If you're a Facebook user you can also click through the entire set and see comments from other Facebook users here.

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Cada año, en este tiempo busco entre las fotos más recientes de las viajes del verano, las del Camino de Santiago: la antigua ruta llena de impresionantes paisajes que se extiende desde Francia al norte de España. Si en cualquier tiempo tienes la oportunidad de caminar o andar en bicicleta por alguna parte del camino, debes hacerlo. Pero ten cuidado - si tus pies no están preparados, ganarás algunas ampollas en los primeros días, pero una vez que se curan, te encontrarás con un fantástico viaje que nunca olvidarás. Así que agarre un bastón y una concha de Vieira para llevar en tu bolsa o sombrero, y sigue las flechas amarillas marcado el camino.

    

    

Fotos de Thor Lux, victor_nuno, hinojose, :: mario :: y tauxu2000. Mas en el mural del grupo Camino de Santiago.

      
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Comedian Demetri Martin sometimes does a bit on The Daily Show about spotting trends. Maybe next time he's on he'll have a look at search.twitter.com first. Trending topics on Twitter are keywords that happen to be popping up in a whole bunch of tweets. We measure these topics and adjust them in real-time throughout the day. It's a great way of finding out what's happening right now.

Today's Trends

Creating a blog post about current trends is challenging because they tend to change while you're writing. However, earlier today folks had Spain on the brain. Whether McCain was taking a hard line against the Spanish government or if he just blanked for a minute during an interview, Twitterers were not giving him a break. Tweets like this one from @bigskyman flew in fast and furious, "The reign in Spain has strained McCain's old brain."

Staying Power

Some trends tend to stick around for a while as people continue to have reactions like this one from Jon MacDonald about trending topic AIG, "Kraft to replace AIG on the DOW Index. Fitting, since most people will soon be eating more Kraft dinners." Twitter also seems to be powering a vibrant backchannel for the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City which people are participating in by adding the keyword #w2e to their tweets. The Dow zooming up at the last minute has lots of folks tweeting in surprise this afternoon.

Sarah Palin continues her reign as queen of the tweets with people still reeling from Tina Fey's spot on impersonation—and eerily similar physical appearance. The Sara Palin baby name generator is still making the rounds as is the topic of her coveted Japanese eyeglasses. The news of Palin's hacked Yahoo! Mail account is old but today people are twittering about the password: "Popcorn." It may have been set by the hacker but nevertheless, it's a salty tidbit today on Twitter.

Movers and Shakers

Moving up the ranks in today's trends is something that shouldn't be there until tomorrow but it's apparently starting a day early. People are already warming up for the yearly event that takes the web by storm: Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrr you ready for it, matey? I'm also learning just now that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is premiering a new season tonight—better set the TiVo. It might be fun to try and package these trends up on a regular basis but we'll have to be fast about it!

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We're getting ready to launch a refresh of parts of the Twitter.com interface. This release does not include any new features (well, one). It's mostly cosmetic changes. This post describes what we're doing and why.

Moving the tabs


The most significant change you'll notice on the logged-in homepage (/home) is that we've moved the tabs that were on the top of the timeline to the right sidebar. We did this for a couple reasons. For one thing, it makes them larger targets and easier to access. But more importantly, it was an investment in the future. We plan to have more tabs, and we'd run out of room putting them along the top. This was the driving factor for this redesign, but you won't see all the benefits until a future release (hopefully, very soon!).

Ajax for speed
When you click on the Home or @Replies tab when you're already on that page, the updates are now refreshed via Ajax, instead of loading the whole page, which should be faster.

Action icons: When you need them
At first you may wonder where the star and reply swoosh beside every update went. Mouseover and update to see them show up.

Lighter, Prettier, Simplified
Besides hiding the icons until you need them, we've done many things to try and make the look of the page less cluttered -- like lightening the lines between posts and spacing things out more. Some things we've made smaller (like our logo), while other, more important things, we've made bigger (like the tabs and the Update button). Some things we've made the tough choice to get rid of all together (see below).

We've also done some things for pure aesthetic reasons -- like rounding some corners (which you won't see on Internet Explorer but will in Firefox or Safari -- or Chrome). In general, we think the site looks a lot better. Hopefully you will, as well.

New design customizer
For some people, this design probably does not look better. If you've customized your Twitter colors, it's possible you have a combination that doesn't look quite right with this new design. We did our best to maintain customizations in a pleasing way. But if, for example, you have a white sidebar or sidebar border color, it may not look quite right.

But good news! One new feature we've added is a completely revamped design customizer, which you'll find under Settings / Design.


With this tool, you can choose from pre-designed themes, as well as play with your color scheme and background and see the results in real time.

Removed Archive tab
In the interest of simplification, we've removed the "Archive" tab from /home which showed you your own updates. The reason is, it showed you the same stuff you see on your own profile page, it was oddly named, and people rarely used it. It didn't deserve the space it took it. If you miss it, hopefully you'll get used to going to your profile page (which you can get to by clicking on your picture or the Profile link up top).

What we haven't done
This hardest thing about doing a redesign like this deciding what not to tackle. I'm fairly certain that much of the feedback to this will be, "What about...[your favorite feature request / annoyance]." Please be assured the changes we've made here aren't the only things we want to (or will) change. They're not even, necessarily, the most important. The scope of this project was limited to light-weight front-end work. We have whole other teams working on back-end changes and more fundamental functionality changes (which, as mentioned above, this is also laying the groundwork for).

Got feedback? Twitter us.
We'd love to know what you think. This change should go out in the next couple days. Once it's up, please send your gripes, ideas, and praise (?) for the team. The easiest way is via Twitter (naturally). Just send an update starting with @twitter. Though we might not be able to respond to everyone, as usual, we'll keep a close eye on what you say.

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