Nambu Desktop App to Include Real Time Capabilities Via OneRiot
Real-time search engine OneRiot and Nambu, a social messaging desktop application for Apple operating systems, today announced a partnership that enables Nambu users to see real-time web search results while searching from within the app.
OneRiot's Tobias Peggs said the new capability is "a key feature. They are the first of these type of desktop applications to offer real time web search results in addition to the usual Twitter conversation search. This means Nambu users don't just keep track of conversations, but they also get to find related fresh content (news, blogs, videos, etc) as it emerges on the real-time web."
OneRiot's real-time search results show content indexed within seconds of its appearance on the web through social sharing sites such as Digg and Twitter. Nambu is among a growing list of services to recently join the OneRiot Realtime Search Partner Program and gain access to their search API.
"OneRiot's real-time web search engine is the best way to find fresh, socially-relevant content from across the web," said Eric Woodward, CEO of Nambu. "Now our users can track realtime conversations on any topic, and discover new related content at the same time. It's a great combination."
In addition to OneRiot real-time web search, Nambu now offers Twitter and FriendFeed search to index conversations and links. The search offering is rounded out with Yahoo! News, which provides feeds from AP, Reuters, and other outlets.
"With the increase of noise and spam in real-time conversation search," said Peggs, "it's good for the users to also have real-time content search. Now you can track a term ... see what people are saying, and also discover emerging content. It's a nicely rounded experience for the user."
Here's an example of what those results would look like; OneRiot results are highlighted:
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Great news but when will this be implemented? No date mentioned in your post and the Nambu site doesn't even mention anything about the partnership?
I used pre-release of this today (avail thurs) and it was buggy but cool. No air-app hangups, nice native mac feel. Search stuff is good. Give me tweetdeck group import & i'll try it for real.
I hope Nambu spends some time on reliability--it would be my first choice twitter app but it freezes/locks up my computer all the time.
Nambu is great! No complaints here at all. It's a great native app and isn't a RAM hog like Tweetdeck. Can't wait until they get out of Beta and release the full version.
I hope they Nambu makes their search box longer than 5 characters long in this release. Tiny search boxes = bad UI.
Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to meet in real life.
KZ
Great. When it doesn't freeze!