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Links on Twitter: Long tail of MSNBC video, National Public Radio’s API calls double, Google News experiments with “Interesting Reads”

By Twitter Aug. 25, 2009, 6:41 p.m.

As MSNBC puts much more video online, “the demand has shifted from the most popular videos to the tail” http://tr.im/x3BQ »

API activity for National Public Radio nearly doubled between June and July, to over 6m calls http://tr.im/x3zk »

Update on Google News “Interesting Reads” http://tr.im/wZie Google tells me it’s a test for “small % of users,” won’t say how stories picked »

POSTED Aug. 25, 2009, 6:41 p.m.

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