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The Annotations feature will give developers much more flexibility around the context of a tweet. The feature will allow developers to “add any arbitrary metadata to any tweet in the system.” So, just like a tweet can today be transmitted along with information about which other tweet it was in reply to, or what location it came from, or what application it was created on, now Twitter will allow developers to make up new stuff. Twitter is looking to see how developers use Annotations before it creates any sort of taxonomy for them.

Now the company has decided to do just that. Twitter publishing tools can now add a description to any tweet their users publish, not as a part of the 140 character message, but as a small machine-readable metadata field that travels along with the content.

You can find all the information about Twitter Annotations at groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/fa5da2608865453?pli=1

What do you think about this upcoming feature? What would be the potential of semantically tagging tweets using Common Tags, for example, instead of hastags? Leave your comments below to start the discussion

HyperTwitter allows users to consolidate or relate pairs of:

• Twitter hashtags,
• user IDs, and
• arbitrary URIs.

by a simple yet powerful syntax. For example, users can easily state that two hashtags mean the same:

#muenchen = #munich

The Hypertwitter application can extract and interpret such special tweets (Twitter messages) for two purposes, namely:

1. To expand your queries / search in Twitter (e.g. turn a query for tweets containing #muenchen into those also containing #munich), and
2. to create an RDF graph of all such statements for usage in other Web applications.

Now, given the millions of Twitter users, this could naturally lead to chaos, so there are two a simple yet effective ways to control which subset of statements should be considered:

1. Just use your own tweets.
2. Create a new public or private Twitter list that contains all users whose tweets you want us to consider. We call the list used for HyperTwitter the “trust list”.

In the simplest form, you will just trust your own statements, so you would use your Twitter ID without a list.

You can find all the information at http://semantictwitter.appspot.com/.

Kutano, a browser-based Twitter client that also aggregates comments on Twitter about the website a user is currently visiting, just launched the first client for Google’s Sidewiki project. Sidiwiki allows users who have a special version of the Google Toolbar installed to annotate any web page and comment on any blog post. These comments, however, are normally only visible to users who also use Google’s toolbar, but Google also allows third parties to access this data. Kutano is the first company to make use of the Sidewiki API to aggregate these comments and annotations.

Via: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kutano_launches_first_client_for_google_sidewiki.php