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YouTube Launches Real-Time Discussion Search and Tracking

Real-time information is red hot all around the web but it made a surprise appearance on YouTube tonight in the form of real-time search for comments, of all things. YouTube comments are notoriously not worth reading, but now you can search their full text…in real time. There are some very real, potential use-cases crying out for a tool like this. Companies in particular are likely to want to know what people are saying about their names in the comments on YouTube. You name your topic, though: it’s now available for real-time search across viewer discussion.

Real-time search appears to have been rolled out very recently, with no mention, on this page. In addition to search results continuously updated ala Facebook’s newsfeed (”3 new results”) there’s also a frequently-updated list of “trending topics” on the search page.

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Unfortunately, there are no feeds being published to syndicate these search results into a reader off-site. The regular search on YouTube now has RSS feeds and Google Wonder Wheel data being published, so perhaps comment search will have feeds added soon as well.

Proper nouns will likely be of interest to searchers watching YouTube comments. This could be a popular addition to the toolkits of social media watchers everywhere.

What’s the benefit of serving those results up in real time? For certain search queries you don’t want to wait around to find out there’s new results.

What could be next? Presuming this feature is as real as it looks and goes live to the public soon, we’d love to see YouTube support something like the Salmon comment aggregation protocol and publish updates for this and other GData feeds through in a real-time syndication format.

Thanks to Tikva Morowati for the tip. Tikva is the Community Platform Director for KGBWeb, a stealth startup made up of ex-Googlers and others in New York City that will likely make a splash among web-watchers later this year.

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Code.Intuit.com – Partner Platform Gets a Dash of Open Source

Intuit launched code.intuit.com today, an open source community that functions as an extension of their partner platform. The new site is designed to give partner companies a free resource with code, toolkits, and documentation for building SaaS apps.

Code.intuit.com has been released as a complement to the federated applications program, which lets developers use any programming language and cloud infrastructure they like. Though it was public, the platform has been taken out of beta and is released under the Common Public License.

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Intuit has worked with some initial partners to create flagship applications during the public beta: standout examples of the Federated Apps include those from VerticalResponse, DimDim, and Rypple.

Intuit has also gathered an advisory board of fairly big names in the open source community: Jay Sullivan, VP of mobile at Mozilla, Michael Coté of Redmonk, and Jason van Zyl of the Apache Maven project. Also C. Michael Pilato from CollabNet, which is providing the software to run the community side of code.intuit.com.

How Open is Your Source?

The site may be out of beta, but exactly how welcoming it will be is unclear. Intuit comments:

“The initial Intuit-sponsored open source projects are designed to expand a shared infrastructure to make it easier for developers to integrate their applications with the Intuit Partner Platform. In the future, Intuit will sponsor additional projects and encourage involved developers and organizations to create and run their own Intuit Partner Platform-related projects.” [Emphasis added]

Intuit is creating an interesting mix of open and proprietary systems for development around its small business platform. No actual Intuit products are being open sourced, but with code.intuit.com, they’re clearly hoping to capitalize on the advantages of being open by letting third parties participate in a moderated way.

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